What Once Was And Will Never Be?

"What once was and will never be?"

"The waves in that turquoise sea", said she.

There still are waves

And perhaps there still will be

But they are not the ones that once were

For they are different :

The kiss between the breeze and the sea.

"What once was and will never be?"

"The fragrance of that first cosmos", said he.

There still are flowers of cosmos

And the perfumed air still lingers

But the one that bloomed first, that day of all

Would never ever be, even if time would stall.

One more time, 
"What once was and will never be?"
They agreed to answer that together 

When both were ready, at the count of three. 

The letters* still are, and so are the words in it

Once they were mine, but not anymore, even a single bit

For they are now yours, my words and my thoughts

Though still mine, it has You, in days of warm winds

And even of frost. 

The night wind still whistles in the cold 

But that bleak mood, there's none of it to behold

My every breath that once was mine, is now yours

Though still mine, it has You, in days of warm winds

And even of frost. 

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*P.S. "letters" in line 18 mean letters that have a sender and a receiver (sometimes), like postal letters.

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