Lovers Lost

Lovers in a Barren World

A world destroyed.
Lovers lost on Portage and Main
while the dirt and dust swirls around them.
Still they struggle on.
Moon high in the sky they roam
down to a river no longer blue,
watching ravens pick at rotten corpses and broken coke cans,
while bikes and Camaros pass them by.
They don't care.
Year ago, each made their own wish,
while the stars and the moon shone in the sky.
Now they turn to each other,
standing under the elms that trace the river's edge.
To each other
they say
"I love you."

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where they spot the ravens picking at the wastes left
by humanity's demise.
And she looks at him, and whispers,
"you promised me, you know, that one day it would be different"
and he looks at her and whispers, "I know".