The moonlight keeps me up at night
It keeps my dreams at bay
And in my restless tussle
I can only see your face
It toys with me, a mocking glare
That induces quite a weep
I only wish you could be here
To hold me whilst I sleep
#8
I still hide you in my poetry
I still hide you in my words
I still frame you round the syllables
That I once softly spoke and you once heard
I'm still enslaved by your memory
Still in rapture at your smile
My heart still beats a little faster
With that gentle flicker of desire
I still catch your scent at times
It still lingers faintly in the air
I still greet you in my dreams most nights
Waking cold and clammy with despair
I still love you like I always have
But it's simply not the same
Now that love runs through my art
And no longer through my veins
#7
Please don't hold me captive
In your warm and tight embrace
Please don't kiss me into slumber
If you'll be gone when I awake
Please don't promise me forever
If you intend to leave
Please don't let me love you
If you're not in love with me
#6
I can see the sky is grieving
Your departure's gone and left it grey
And all the bitter rain that keeps on falling
Only serves to reflect the tears cried every day
The leaves have all turned ashen
Your absence rotted every one
It seems our summer's died a death
And our spring may never come
#5
I broke myself
I broke myself again
But this time, there was no way to mend
All the pieces lay on the ground
All the fragments that could be found
Bitter longings left behind
Washed away by tears of mine
I am lost with no direction
Stranded in the midst of my own creation
There was never hope for me
Just a mirage of faux happy
#4
I am burning in your fire
Turning to ashes in your flames
I am gone but not forgotten
Caught on the breeze of your dismay
#3
Brittle bones
And lungs asphyxiated by the sorrow
The love that cradles me today
Will soon rob me of tomorrow
#2
I am drowning in your waters
lungs filled with salt and sea
fighting for the shoreline
knowing I'll never make it free
#1
Sat in the darkness of the night
The flames of my burning heart the only light
Casting shadows on the wall
The sole company upon which I have to call