Why Love

Why, love?
Why did we bother to try love?
Why did we foolishly stop to say hello
Instead of going our way?
But your heart was free
And mine was on my sleeve
Were we brave, or were we just naïve?

So tell me why, love
When all things end in goodbye, love
Why did we dream that this fate would not be ours
When even stars up above
Ask where their glow went?
Love lasts one moment
And then that final task:
To sigh and ask
"Why love?"