When Our Hearts Were True
In those days when our hearts were true
Nothing could change that strange debut
Our dreams were steadfast, it’s what we knew
The future was clear it would see us through
In those days when our hearts were true
Time and tide played a changing game
We were unable to take the blame
In those long days when we lost our aim
The spinning reel of time that overcame
Then there was that day of defame
It was all untrue, that much we knew
But some took a long and different view
Much was said and taken to accrue
Against our way, our loss then grew
In those days when our hearts were blue
The break then came, the fracture made
The split that placed us in the shade
Our fright was such and truth mislaid
Nothing could reach such a tirade
As strangers then, we were unmade
No longer then with hearts of truth
Abandoned there without our youth
The day was dark and I moved south
And I was marked then as a sleuth
Those days when our hearts were loose
Poem/Lyric © Richard Walker 09/10/ 2012
(2012)
