#29

I can only taste the sadness
That lingers on your tongue
I can only feel the longing
For all the lovers that have gone
I can only see the cracks
That show through every word
I can only ever want you
But I’m a sound that’s left unheard

#28

This is the dawn’s chorus
Gently echoing throughout our day
This is the breaking
That calls before the breakthrough
This is great love
Imbued with discontented suffering
This is letting go
So that we may learn to freely receive
This is the change
Accelerating us rapidly into progress
This is uncomfortable
Yet we see the necessity in its arrival
This is understanding
What it is to not know until it’s too late
This is the slumber
From which we were destined to awake

#27

Can you forgive, if you can't forget
When the painful memories still circulate repeatedly around your head
When an ill-placed word brings on a flood of emotion you'd long tried to suppress
When you can't live with, yet you can't live without
When the love is strong, but then so is the doubt
When the betrayal still cuts like a knife
Turning dreams into nightmares you're forced to relive every night
When a love turns to marriage and then soon to divorce
A fast track love affair that ran wildly off course
When a well-meaning separation feels more like a death
How do you make it through each crushing day when you're entirely bereft

#26

I am drowning in your presence
Your love softly smothers me to death
I am willing, I am able
I give in freely to your requests
Your hands around my neck
Gently squeezing life and air
I am intoxicated by the madness
Falling limp without a care
Run my fingers down your spine
Soak in every spectrum of your being
Lost in the caverns of your eyes
As I sink into this feeling

#25

When love is just a word
And one that can't be spoken
And promises aren't kept
Leaving hearts forever broken
And sleep becomes impossible
Due to thoughts that seem unstoppable
And images of you line every corner of my head
And kisses simply aren't enough
And a touch is merely just a touch
And soon all our passion's left for dead
And the distance becomes immeasurable
And the silence starts to deafen
And inevitably the memories begin to fade
And all the expectations
All the hopes and dreams
Slowly decompose in a lover's grave

#24

Cold heart
Beating in the dead of night
Don't even know if you're listening
Hot sweats
Waiting for the end to come
Really wish you were here with me

#23

My heart is calling for you
It bellows out your name
Words that once began as whispers
Growing louder with the pain
My eyes are sore from searching
Your face lost like a shadow in the dark
I can hear your heart is beating
In faith, I'm reaching out my arms

#22

I hear them call my name
Everyone but you
And it's a pain I know too well
It's a pain I thought was through
Yet here we are again
Doing what we've always done
I'm tired of this ache
I'm sick of feeling numb

#21

I offered you my love
A gift you weren't willing to receive
All your past inside your present
It seems you still need time to grieve
And it's a pain I know too well
A heartfelt tale I've read before
I'm always running from my past
From wounds that cut me to the core
Sometimes I'm sorry that I tried
Tried to move on to something new
When all this did was re-ignite the fire
Set the blaze of pain anew

#20

And you say that you love me
And you say you're afraid
And I know exactly how you feel
We're all bored to distraction
By this overwhelming attraction
That keeps on bringing us back to here