First Love

Through eyes of a stranger, you stare at me
Face void of emotion, watching blankly
Our gaze is unbroken, I wait patiently
Girl... don't you remember me?

You're nothing as I pictured you
I'd pieced your image in my mind
Your lips, your eyes, each tiny feature
But it was nothing more than my own design

Through my eyes you always were
A bird breaking through bars, past its cage
So disappointment weighs my heart
To see how much you've stayed the same

But one single, simple glance
Is not enough to validate
Each conclusive assumption
Or what my tongue cannot articulate

Our first encounter, so similar
Eyes open, and mouth agape
Vocal chords twisted, tangled
Still, no words escaped

But somehow, you fell in love with me
And me, head over heels
I had no idea how to talk or act
Or how love's supposed to feel

But you took my hand and I followed you
Down a road I did not know
So I quieted my common sense
Following into a world of our own

I spent the best years of my life
Just going down our path
Not caring where it would lead
Or what'd be brought by its aftermath

So I think it's safe to say
Where we ended up was not a surprise
We were so young and unassuming
Of how everything good must have to die

I had you, and I'd lost you
And that's how my life will stay
Our goodbye was abrupt and bitter
And a shake-head worthy shame

Though you stare at me now as a stranger
Years of silence, eroding my memory
I've been reduced to a picture in a photo album,
A withered token amongst your memoir's debris

But forever my heart will bear nothing but thanks
You were first to me love, its beginning and its end
Showed its tears, its smiles, its kisses, its rewards
And the hope that maybe.. it'll find me again