Fallen greatness

We were great, we were legends

we made history

we had everything, material and immaterial

then we forgot how we became legends

we forgot how we made history

we forgot that we made it together

I thought I did more than you

you thought it was you

we didn’t realize it was a partnership

ego overtook sense and sensibility

greed seeped slowly into abandoned hearts

Distance grew gradually

empathy drifted away speedily

alone and top of the world

neither could do what we did together

From the top it was a long fall

with no one to cushion the fall

it was painful, miserable and fatal

By the time we understood

the secret to success was ‘us’

neither me nor you

alas it was too late

 

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