We lived in different worlds
Lived in different bounds
We met by coincidence
From our different backgrounds
We knew different sounds
Difference views and sights
You were from the outside
But I knew city lights
We longed to explore the night
To count a million stars
And if it were a cloudy night
Replace them with moving cars
We wanted long walks upon the hot tar
For someone , something
To return the love we would give so easily
Just for our hearts to sing
We needed life to bring
Bring us each other
We longed for the love
That we could give one another.
Then , that one summer
Life brought me you
I saw those eyes and fell for
That deep ocean blue
I thought it was true
But it was instead brief
Like winter upon the
Falling of a leaf
The time had come
For the love tree to die
And now here we stand
Saying our final goodbyes.
© Uwais Coetzee
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Grade 11
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