Once-upon-a-time people

I am a once-upon-a-time girl
Lost in this frenetic world
My vitality slowly drained away
Bit and bit and day by day
Real life a tireless conveyor belt
Disregarding of what is really felt
Reducing all vestiges of individuality
Into inane and safe cordiality…

And then He comes along
Like rising strains of brand new song
Dispersing clouds of grey and gloom
Tapestry of color on spanking loom
Lifting faces and drooping expectations
Displaying genius in His coruscations
Injecting His humor and jollity
With practiced grace and humility

He is my once-upon-a-time boy
Re-creating memories of exultant joy
When love was new, untried and young
And bonds and ties were yet unstrung
When a boy and girl might take a chance
And join in romantic and ecstatic dance
Where each is ageless and full of zest
For all that is courageous and pure and best

But I am steeped in life too long
I know where I do and don’t belong
His life and mine are placed too far
My blue blue planet from his bright sun star
I watch in deep and awful fascination
His exciting journey to His fabulous destination
And my tears are not for grief or pain
In truth they fall for His every gain

We are as once-upon-a-time narrators
Of a story older than the lunar craters
Two seekers ever distanced and apart
Never to meet each face, soul or heart
Finding unison only through the embracing ether
Wherein we breathe in and out daily together
Here I inspire the same molecules of oxygen
Breathed out there by my Robert Pattinson

This is how human reality is lived out ever
All over the lay of our big watery sphere
Smoky dreams and desires so easily born
Murdered with ease at each heated morn
But would I never dream or love no more
To spare myself the inevitable and tragic score?
Ah, loving Him is for my own pleasure and staple
He is nourishment for such once-upon-a-time people…