When the sunshine came

He used to laugh at play grounds full of kids
And love to swing high
He used to love watching kites bob in the wind
And lay on his back to watch the stars fill the sky
He used to wish on falling stars and turkey bones
and candles on cakes
He used to write about her, The one he would meet
the way her eyes would light his own.
But time had changed him,
and his eyes had lost their glow, the spring gone from his step.
Too many dates canceled on account of busyness or rain or sleep
he had forgotten how to laugh
when the sunshine came.
She used to sing at night
tears caressing her face like a wet tender lover
and watch the moon melt into dawn.
She used to cry when she saw notes written in a child's hand
on the couch or coffee table
so sweet they were to remember
she used to sit for hours in awe of the world outside her window
as the rain drops bled down it's face
she used to run barefoot thru the grass
and splash in the puddles
she used to sing at night and now
she washed her face and went to bed
trying to forget
she didn't watch the storms anymore
she had become too careful too cautious
and forgotten to smile
When the sunshine came
They had both lost the magic
The way a hug felt, or a kiss on the cheek
The had forgotten how it was holding someone all night
and the way the cold felt so far away.
They had forgotten all of it when the sunshine came.
Love takes two, both parts make a whole
They couldn't see each other through the fog
and so, never connected.
Soul mates may be real, but without careful work
without opening to one another, two souls
so perfectly matched, may never be together.
And in the end, they were strangers on the street
beautiful faces, never to be
Their eyes met, connected then, faces covered again
walking the other way.
All was lost when the sunshine came.