Resigned to Ordinary

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In the world that was our time I gazed upon the sun.

And thus inspired I wrote the words that made us one

And basked in the rays, an entire day rendered from aloft

A perfect place under the sun, the grass was warm and soft

The place around became a world of light and fantasy

Enamored and addicted to peace and ecstasy

Care let the two of us repose

And leave our sharing souls exposed

In essence we created there, more than went before

A passion and a union rare, we tempted Fate for more

The sun cares not for that which heretofore had been

So all that afternoon I reveled on the green,

Oblivious to time or place or consequence unseen

The sun shone long and little did I want to know

That soon the sun across the sky would go

We shared a life's most precious day and drank of it our fill

But nagging obligations chased away the hours, like a bitter pill

Painfully I watched it slip beyond the westhern hills

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