I remember

I remember someone I fell in love with a very long time ago.  I wondered for a moment how I could have forgotten, but isn't it so easy to forget something that pains you so, in the end?  They tell me 'tis better to have loved and lost...

"Well met, well met," said an old true love.
"Well met, well met," said he.
"I have just returned from the salt, salt sea,
And it's all for the love of thee."