Pick it Up

We lost every war we ever fought
you and I.
Every skirmish cost us colour,
cost us light
cost us love.
We gave in, gave up,
gave it everything we ever had.
Maybe we even gave too much.

And you know as well as I
how close we came
how lightning struck
how the rope gave out
but we never cut the other off
for all we ever had was love.
It’s laying there. Just pick it up.