We Can't Go Back We can't go back to where we were That place in time and space is gone We cannot stop the sands of time And so we must move on Whatever words we might have said Forever now are left behind And all the debts and sad regrets Are only shadows of the mind The tears that fell are wiped away And only memories make us sad But for an hour, they've lost that power To make us long for what we had It isn't that our love was less Than love should ever try to be Our love was sweet and quite replete With passion, as all love should be But it was not "forever" love The love that poets feign exists It lately changed and rearranged As life, with all its turns and twists Will change us into someone new A person older, somewhat wise So love amends to make us friends And friendship is a sweet surprise Poetry