Unravel me with your smile,
The limbs of my soul stretched out to touch you,
Your voice a soft caress on my cheek,
Like honey and all that is hopeful in the world

Laugh, my love, and send me whirling too,
As you always have and always will
Oh, what I would do, what I would give!
To hear you laugh just one more time

Awoken by a whisper
Fresh eyes peering up at me
I am tired, so tired
But even I cannot resist
This sweet, little face
Just inches from mine
So happy to see me,
It brings me to tears

He sits in the corner of my mind
His face is plastered onto the blacks of my eyelids
Like a drive-in movie
A silent film, of course

I replay our short time together,
Which is more accurately described as my time with him
I stop to wonder,
Was I happy then, or do I only remember it that way?

I don’t have to think my thoughts to feel that he is in them
Each time I convince myself that I am completely alone
I close my eyes and he is with me
I close my eyes, and it’s as if he never left

I cannot name an untarnished memory
Nor can I recite to you with an amiable fondness
All that you have introduced to me
Which I know can never be forgotten
Or ignored

Every time I’ve cried
For each childish, humdrum tear
You have sat upon my eyelids in wait
And braced yourself upon my lips
To catch them as they fall

My make-believe hero
My sunlight

As for leaving,
Love knows not of the word
But only of emptiness
For you can never truly leave someone
Who hasn’t let you go

What a sad thing it is

I am still here
And I’ve loved you every moment of it

I can’t explain how it feels

I wake up every day
Wondering if I’ll ever be happy

And go to bed every night
Knowing that I’ve failed myself again

A flash of light stifles my grief
Have you ever seen such brightness?
The individual strands of sorrow
Illuminated by a hidden thief
My darkness, your lightness

What sweet and careless madness
To know of joy and know it well
Tell me, are you happy here?
Or in perfection, plagued by sadness
Lonely where only your sanity dwells