Didn't Know Forever Looked Like This

I believed in your whispers

 And words spoken in quiet moments under moonlight

I believed in your notes and cards

 Left on pillows and steering wheels

Forever looked different then

Forever was our fingers intertwined

Your head on my shoulder

Forever was a given

Never questioned

Always believed

But now

Forever looks like crumbling clocks

Rings that have broken to have a beginning and end

Frowns

Turned downed eyes

And unanswered messages

Whatever happen to kisses that stopped time

To holding each other until the sun broke through the blinds

I didn’t know forever looked like

Silent dinners

Stay late at work

Infomercials at 2 a.m.

I didn’t know that forever could look like goodbye

Blindsided

You can still be blindsided
   on a one way street

At any moment
  someone else's mistake
   can kill you

We give trust so blindly
  to perfect strangers

Yet we make the people closest
   to us
    work to even see us smile

You have to look both ways
  in this world
   to keep from being blindsided