A Light In Her Eyes

There’s a light in her eyes

That she used to let shine

I basked in those rays

That once warmed my soul

The weight of the world

She could lift from my shoulders

With only a word

And a moment of time

Those days have long passed

That light shines no longer

All she lets me see now

Is a painful reminder

Of what I tried in vain

To cling to too tightly

It wasn’t mine to hang onto

And I’ll feel it no more