The Love That Stayed

We danced beneath the cherry sky

Not knowing it would be goodbye

Your hand in mine, so warm, so near

The world was silent, love was clear

A song was playing soft and slow

The stars above began to glow

But hearts can’t stay where time won’t try

We slipped away before goodbye

Before goodbye, before we knew

I felt the ending coming through

And though your smile began to fade

The memory somehow stayed

We loved so high, we loved so true

A fragile flame the whole night through

Now echoes live where words once bloomed

The scent of spring still haunts my room

I still replay that final sight

The way you looked that last soft night

Before goodbye, I never thought

Love could burn fast, then turn to loss

But fire like that was never meant

To last beyond the moment spent

Yet in my soul you still remain

By how we were, without the pain

Before goodbye, before the end

When everything was gold back then

A fleeting flame I still can’t hold

Though time erased that last July

I’m still in love with our goodbye