The Things That Never Happened

The things that never happened,
The thoughts that never were
Things we cannot imagine
Therefore cannot confirm.

The ones that still are waiting
For the thing that never comes
For a story that is fading
In a Time that never was.

Beyond four dimensions dying
There are things we have not seen
No one hears the Watchers crying
For the things that should have been.

If we had not made that promise
If we had not looked that way
If the Road into the darkness
Had not led us to Today.

There are questions that are curses
There are things we must not ask
When the Present moment merges
With the Shadows of the Past.

Somewhere deep within the Earth Time
There was something that went wrong
Now the bloody tears incarnadine
The First and Final Song.

In the moments dark with weeping
We are always looking back,
To a thing that never happened
And a question never asked.

Our broken hearts are weeping
As the sinking sun is dead
Still and silent they are keeping
All the tears we never shed.

Not for things that were before us
Not for things we had and lost
Not for vain and foolish choices
Not for coming of the Frost.

Not for golden summers dying
Not for fruitless loves grown cold
Not for children’s voices crying
Not for valiant strength grown old.

Not for blossomed branches breaking
Not for years now gone to waste
Not for misery of waking
In a dark and desperate place.

Not for things that were forbidden
Not for awful Death incurred
But for things that never happened
And for thoughts that never were.