... they lived happily, 
ever after, though, 
further and further removed 
from the circumstances and feelings 
that had caused them 
to come together 

gradually replacing 
those original emotions with 
ones more tied to 
present exigencies; 
current limitations, 
both the urgent, and the pointless, 

until such time that, 
unweighted by delight, 
the fell into failing or maybe 
failed at their falling 

as the picture yellowed on 
what had been 

an unfaded love