Love is Just a Fleeting Thing

Oh, love is just a fleeting thing
Some see it as a passing fling,
While others grasp and hold on tight
With grip so hard it makes men fight

Now once the love I had for you
would make me glad but now I'm blue
for your love it no longer shines
like sun and stars 'til end of time

To heaven's gate you've gone today, 
it's here on earth where I must stay
All alone and lost I shall be
'til Gabriel's horn calls to me

Again I'll see your shining face
with hearts as one we shall embrace
Our love on earth no longer true
For love in heaven now we two 

© 6/3/2010 M Suzanne Wyatt, All rights reserved

(NOTE: This is a quatrain with an eight syllable count.  I've worked hard to tweak this over time to get the rhythm/rhyme just right, but I still feel that the meter is still a touch off.)