No Longer Us

I heard it in the passing winds, 

The message that it sent;

Of a son in the army,

To a mother on her death-bed.

I saw it in two strangers,

In prayer as they bent;

And I saw it in the eyes,

Of a man newly-wed.

I saw it in the wrinkles,

Of a young mother working hard;

In the waves, each morning,

Pulling sand in its yard;

I found it in the story,

Of an old King’s bard.

Excited, I turned,

To the love of my life;

Disappointingly, in those blue eyes,

Love I didn’t find.

Lover, I no longer was,

I was just a bloody wife;

Immense love all around,

But ‘us’, it could not bind.