Not Everything Is Forever

Maybe I'm a little bit drunk tonight
Or maybe I'm just nostalgic, right?
Nothing has ever been black and white,
But once upon a time, you were my knight.

Two years, four years, six years ago:
We were young and didn't know
Where at all this life would go.
If on repeat, I don't know, would we take it slow?

Scrolling through messages at three fifteen
From where you and I were just eighteen.
Back when it was possible, just a young dream:
And though it's been two years, it's a lifetime, so it seems.

Spam emails and dirty video calls:
Work and college classes and life never stalled.
Feelings and love were gained and lost:
But never without, on the heart, forever a cost.

And tonight, of you, this poem I write
For every now and then a heart craves the light
The light of a love that was so young, true, and full of sight
Regardless of whether it was toxic, wrong, or right.

Miscommunications and anger fueled texts:
This world always pushing for what's to be found next.
But every now and then, our souls are like a river:
Reminiscing on what was never meant to be forever.