What about?

what about love?
what about us?
what about time?
what about trust?

they were there before
but they they're gone
life was there before
but now it's gone

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what about a love long gone by, what about an us long gone by,
what about a time long gone by, what about trust long gone by?
things that were there before, but now they're gone,
the life that was there before, but now it's gone.
there are many things in life we may have once had and lost,
we think of them as the 'golden ages' and 'golden moments'
so golden we cannot let go of them,
so golden we must remember them forever,
for they are a standard to be measured by.
and all other moments and ages pale in comparison,
such that we are unable to be happy,
because nothing else compares to
those times long gone by
it is time to let them go,
and see the colour in the present.