Languishing in Love

Every word you said,
Seemed to be filled with magic.
Every promise you made,
Appealed irrespective of the logic.

My heart used to pound wildly,
When I caught the first glimpse of you.
The earth moved beneath my feet.
I was truly, madly and deeply in love.

I remember nothing of,
How we spent so many hours.
Except the warmth, the affection,
The gifts and the flowers.

So, why does it feel so empty now,
Why this absence of passion?
We are together without a reason.
Has love gone out of fashion?

Is it true, what the cynics say?
Is love just another game in town?
Should every thing that goes up,
Must necessarily come down?

We live under the same roof.
Yet we seem to be so much apart.
The fire has gone out of our lives.
I don't remember asking it to depart.

Even if we go back to
Where we started it all,
I still doubt if we could do
Any thing to stop the fall.

I understand now,
Falling in love is not the difficult part.
The slow death of romance
Is what breaks my heart.