Lullabies

by Lang Leav

Forever for Now Stretching out from here to then, days before us, came and went. Someday we will meet again, for now the end— of days on end.

Nostalgia for Today Do you remember what you once said to me? One day you will be nostalgic for today. At the time, I couldn’t begin to conceive a future without you—I believed with all my heart we were destined for each other. And in the back of my mind, I always knew I’d feel nostalgic for a moment we shared or a memory we created—but not once, not even for a second—did I imagine

it was you I would be nostalgic for.

I write for the raw ache in my bones when the ink seeps into paper—for the bittersweet sorrow that comes from bringing you back.

Forget Me Not The choice was once your choosing, before losing became my loss. I was there in your forgetting— until I was forgot.

Almost Do you see how I love him true— it could have been you. As for you and your love for she— it could have been me. But we were a maybe, and never a must— when it should have been us.

He’s Forgotten Time is to wound like wound is to suture, when she was his past and he is her future.