A Love Lost

The meanings fled
Even before the words were out.
Even earlier whatever spark they had between them
Had long extinguished.
Their flame of love
Became a cinder.
Instead of heat,
Now the cold and lost memories of love.
From sunshine to twilight,
a love that seemed enduring
ended before the break of dawn.
A darkening sky,
instead of a sunlit field.
From love to its extinction,
two lovers parting ways, each to their own solitude.
Yet once, for a special moment
It was sunshine, there was passion, and there were flames.
So how does love go from flame to ash?
What extinguishes the flame
That once burned oh so brightly?
The love didn’t end
It was consumed by its own fire.
For love to endure
It must be banked at times.