Verse 1:

My fragile heart has formed a cage

And all these bars won’t break with age

I fell in love, you captured me

And Now I just can't turn the key

Pre-chorus:

And it seems that you moved on

Feelings change, but mine aren’t gone.

Chorus:

I would give my heart and soul

Just so you could be made whole

And I would crawl down on my knees

To break your chains and find the key.

Yet you leave me in the dark

Picking up the pieces of my heart.

And you leave me out at sea,

Now who will come and rescue me?

Verse 2:

Been fighting demons on my own

To avoid the seeds that I had sown

And reap the sorrow and the pain

To make me feel alive again

Pre-chorus:

And it seems that you moved on

Feelings change, but mine aren’t gone.

Chorus:

I would give my heart and soul

Just so you could be made whole

And I would crawl down on my knees

To break your chains and find the key.

Yet you leave me in the dark

Picking up the pieces of my heart.

And you leave me out at sea,

Now who will come and rescue me?

Bridge:

Because I’m lovin’ you even though it hurts,

Even though I know that it’s gonna get worse

But I just can’t help it

I just can’t help it

I’m fallin’ and fallin’ and I just can’t stop

I cherish your being

hold you to my heart

thoughts of losing you

pounding nails of despair

bruised emotional exhaustion

pondering whether your existence

will carry over into the morrow

life threatening to swallow you

leaving me thirsty and bereft

unfinished and suffocating

my flailed spirit will lose

its passion, a violin missing

its strings of resonance

my love gluing you to my soul

Stay a while before you leave

and I will breathe deeply for you

enfolding you in my heart, forever.

One afternoon, as we roam the streets like flirts,

Beautifully dressed in couple T-shirts,

We shone so bright

Like stars in the middle of the night.

To every young couple,

We were the perfect example ,

The true definition of love,

A couple endorsed from above.

Because what we had was rare,

The wind stopped to stare.

We held hands through out our walk,

Dominating the subject of every talk.

Oh! This could have been here to stay,

If you had not left the day before that day.

You never asked a thing from me,

except to love you uncondtionally.

You never asked for promises or the moon,

except the truth, and suddenly you were gone far too soon.

Never had a real chance to make your life seem whole,

never had the chance for you to see how far for love I would go.

Never will I know another that graced my life,

one to be willing to have as my best friend and wife.

Now the moments of each precious second realized,

knowing the day you left, a part of me had died.

Thirty years have come and gone,

and still I whisper your name in an unheard song.

Why are we on this earth we often ask,

and the answer drives me to a simple answered task.

Destiny propelled us to clash and claim each others heart,

and each day I wake, smiling, thinking of you, is how I start.

What end to my life there will be matters not,

for one day, your eyes, your smile, I shall again see.

I stand

at

the bank

of

the

river

but

your

love

cannot

swim

from

forever

I sit

at

the edge

of

the

canyon

but

your

love

has

no

bridge

which

to

pass

on

I lie

on

the shore

of

the

ocean

but

your

love

lies

beyond

the

horizon

I fly

’cross

the blue

sky

expanse

but

your

love

lives

farther;

ever-last

I sail

to

the end

of

the

seas

but

your

love’s

past

infinity

I stand

with

the earth

’neath

my

feet

but

your

love

soars

beyond;

heavenly

if love is such an imperfect thing, doesn’t it

have holes, doesn’t it leak?, I wonder after

being rejected by you & left alone

to my thoughts. memory is an eternal car ride,

memory looks through windows

without seeing trees, memory continues on. my

mother’s words refract off the surfaces

of my thoughts, bounce back to her, she

swallows them. I cannot listen. if these apertures

exist, where does the love go

as it leaves me?

where can I go, now. radio is a funny thing

in that it speaks through my indifference, feels like

the beatles are singing to only me. I press replay, imagine again

looking into your eyes, saying it a million different ways;

maybe it would have gone differently if I had sounded sincere.

maybe I could have said, (if time means anything), nearly two years

it’s been. twenty-three months it’s been, that’s seven hundred days

of building up these walls, so why couldn’t I just

tell you?

my mother is silent, the radio is silent, the cars rush forward

in the same direction, we all have places to be. after you said no

I could see only the hem of your shirt, & then your shoes, & then

a spot on the linoleum floor. and I could see bits of my love,

like particles of dust, leaving my body and spiraling downward. rejection

was too predictable; I had built storm shelters hoping the hurricane

would not come. & when it came, I stood there in disbelief, unable to

shield myself from that deluge. remember, I prepared myself for this, so why

does it hurt?

getting out of the car is the hardest part, but when I do,

my body feels lighter, as if all that had been trapped inside

has been freed. it flies into the sunset like so many doves,

for a moment it leaves, for a moment the colors dull

and the walls crumble. but as I walk back inside, my love

surrounds me again, promises to stay, holds me more firmly

than your arms ever could.

There are days

When I wonder if

I should stop

Trying to find you

But with every opportunity

I continue to seek you

And one week apart rips

At my heart

So I continue to soak

In as much time as

I have and I can't

Find it in me to regret

Because everytime we part

Naturally

I am smiling

And I am singing

And my heart

Is ringing

Because I can't get enough

Even if I know

That you belong to

Someone else

It can't stop the

Burning

Hope that I just

Can't kill

Because it still feeds me

My happiness

It hurts

But how could I

Ever give you up

I love you

You knew that then

Do you know that now?

I love you

That rings on my head every time I see you

I keep trying to get over you

But every time I see you

I fall in love with you all over again

I love you

I just want to know where you stand

On us

I love you

That’s what bounces in my head

When we say goodbye

I love you

I want to get that off my chest

I want you to know

You already know I care

But I want you to know everything

I love you

I really do

But I’m sure that will be a phrase I take to my grave