Nothing Lasts Forever

"I searched wide and far
For your receding star
Beyond the event horizon
Beyond the point of no return
I never learn"

Strangers inside took me for a desperate clown
My tear-stained face pressed flat against the window
Of the star ship you so far flung have flown
I eased my grip lest you break only to let you go
And now I wear the fool's crown

Ever since, ghosts of thoughts are daily passengers
Of the giving-up you adopted, of love long departed
Reliving and replaying each detail one remembers
Parting words daily recalled, reimbued, reassorted

At each and every turn
I never learn
Beyond the point of no return

They say it's now or never
But Nothingness lasts forever

Faces pressed on each window of the crystal facet
Some within, some without, surrogate ghosts so tragic
Giving hope to each other, nodding in disagreement
Engaged in endless masquerades of pseudo-logic
And now my pathology is permanent

Dark winged reminiscences in dark skies encircling
For evermore lurking, as patiently as a vulture
Till all that is and has been fades to nothing
Till your after-glow fades, and Nothing lasts forever

At each and every turn
I never learn
Beyond the point of no return

They say it's now or never
But Nothingness lasts forever

I searched wide and far
For your receding star
Beyond the event horizon
Beyond the point of no return
I never learn

They say it's now or never
But Nothingness lasts forever

I searched wide and far
For your receding star
Beyond the point of no return
Beyond the point of no return
I never learn

They say it's now or never
But Nothingness lasts forever