For the Heart Catcher (2015)

31. France With You

                 

Forget about London; forget about LA

Or some sunny exotic island you visited last May

And flashback to that winter of young hopeful romance

Of our days strolling around the cobbled streets of France

Key into the Seine, our love sealed by the locks

Feeding bread crumbs to pigeons as they come by the flock

Lourdes's faith and divinity approves of our entwined hearts

Cannes opens its arms for our new united start

But London sticks to your mind

And now you live in LA

Surfing and lying in the open sun

The sunlight is your summer sleigh

Concrete streets and tall palm trees

There's no more chilly winter breeze

And back in France dies our last chance

Didn't you hear? They're removing the locks

They weigh down the bridge; puts people in danger

I guess love wasn't always made to last forever

Sometimes the burden becomes too much

And you start burning everything that you touch

The time has come to extinguish the flames

And that's the end of our little French game.

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I quite like this one, although as I was writing it, I had no idea where I wanted to go. I don't even know how I got the idea for this, but it was when they announced they were removing the locks on the Pont des Arts bridge.