Twenty and twenty and one

Love does not last

                                    It’s a fleeting thing

                                    Yesterday’s  joy

                                    Becomes tomorrow’s pain.

                                    Love does not last

                                    It’s bought with a sigh

                                    And Houseman was true

                                    It’s sold for tears and rue

                                    I loved you hard like the frozen land

                                    But you slipped away

                                    And turned our love into quicksand

                                     Now years and tears

                                    I shall remember

                                    How we loved from  bright September

                                    To bleak December—

                                    Love does not last, but

                                    Pain endures.

                                    Love does not last

                                    It’s a fleeting thing

                                    Like green spring

                                    It’s a long, gone

                                    Sometime thing.