A Thousand Years

We've met before A thousand years ago Before the storm That flung us far from home Faithless, unknown Reason overthrown Kindly eyes that I adore Paramour Beneath the moon And parapets of stone We lost our bloom And wandered off alone Down in my bones It grumbles, it groans Drifting out from the shore Without an oar You can't deny The ageless wisdom Of the fools and sages Even though It may be hard To rip it all apart And start again If only I'd known Too late to atone Lying on the ocean floor Forevermore