Really I don't know, mom.
Apparently I love him more than he loves me.
Anyway I'm coming home now.
Love you.

No song of yours can hurt me more than
Seeing one child in pain

Deaf beethoven heard thy symphony
Genius Michelangelo from a rock curved thee
Blind Homer saw thy comely figure
Davinci painted thee superior to Mona Lisa

Ancient Greeks on papyrus praised thee
Today's poets on books we sing of thee
Time turn all beauty and beasts to ashes
But thou ancient lady like a phoenix rises from the dust

I'm no longer the person i used to be
I'm beginning to lose sight of my dreams
a cloudy haze covers the skies
it seems all I’ve ever been told are a bunch of lies

My thoughts go deeper than my eyes can see
when is enough enough
when is too much too much?
When do I need to think about how I should be

I think I think more than most
Maybe thats a problem in its own
The tide pulls the ocean up to the shore
just to my toes, just to my feet
next thing you know the water is up to my knees

I've never been good at saying no
always been one to go with the flow
But what will I do when the water is up to my chin
and I just then remember
I can not swim

We were sat in a corridor
Two ciders beside you and
Empty space with me.

You looked me in the eye
In the midst of a conversation
I love you - said with a laugh

Without realising it
My eyes lit up.
I hate that.

You're teaching me the meaning
Of cheapening your words.

But you still ask what I think.
You ASK about my thoughts and views

not many people do that
So I forgive you.

I thought I was done with princes -
royalty and pompous nature
Once again I'm wrong.

You demanded that I leave you
The puzzle
Alone.

But why do you stay?
Why do you stay and ask?

You and I are alike, I'm sure
and if you want me to leave
show me the truth, show me I'm wrong.

Because if you are me
I think you're just scared of opening up
Scared of being hurt.
True, I may hurt you.

You have no rhyme or reason to trust me
All I can do is wait for a chance-
And ask that you let me in to try.

I knew you had a princess
you told me day one.

What you didn't say is how wonderful she is
how talented and how nothing I could do measured up to the
beauty she is, creates and masters.

Her womanly elegance far surpasses my freckled childlike wonder
and I look at what I can never be, and I won't change for you.
I did that before and it shattered me.

Love has never been my role, mine is
one of the long game, of guardianship.
A light to lead the way home.

I see now, that she's yours.