I can feel your words echo with the breeze on my skin
We sat here, you and I, for the longest time
Saying goodbye to the day when the sun went down
The tide took with it the dreams and wishes of the dying souls we'd be missing
Then returned it as a gift for the living
Let the water cover my feet and the sand run through my fingers
The oyster shells a reminder of a taste of the good times
A physical symbol of the hours we'd been given

I will walk down that road
Because I can finally see
What you were trying to do to me
Then you will be able to see too
What you are supposed to do
You know in your heart
You knew at the start
We spent too long apart
I was blind you see
Blinded by the tears of grief
You didn't see beneath
You didn't scratch the surface to see what was underneath
I thought you were giving me my self belief
You were greedy thinking two was a better number than one
When all is said and done
And you have had your fun
I'm still not going to be number one
Where was your strength and courage to belong
I opened up my chest let you hold that heart
Where blood exchanged for a part of you
So you run through my veins you gave me life when all was lost
I held on to hope at all costs
Now all the blood has drained away
I realise you weren't meant to stay
And you and me have had our day
I won't forget what's in my head
I will hold it high as I walk on by
Down my path with a clear blue sky
my path will follow a different route from the one I thought
I will take the lessons I've been taught
The only thing I have are questions to ask
To ask of myself
I will open my eyes and live the life I dreamed
Of the destiny not the uncertainty
So on this note I will leave
for I no longer believe in the us you thought we could achieve
Don't look back in anger
Look forward and remember
What was good...
honour our memory
For you never really belonged to me.

You won't see me again
But you will search every day
You taste the regret
In the words you never said
You dream me into reality
Then wake with empty arms

She stands by the railings wearing that knowing look
Her dog waiting patiently by her side
Platform two
I catch a glimpse of red
Torn apart as the Windows go rattling by
Memories come back to visit me
She knew what was to become of us
Her star guides me back to the heart of our past
Clacketty clack
Drum beat, feet tap
until we meet again
on platform two

The history is written in the lines on your face
My fingers trace the furrowed brow
The giggles in your dimples
The beauty of your memories
I can touch your laughter
I taste the tears running down your cheeks
Was it my words that made you cry?
Let my thoughts be the smile in your minds eye.

Childhood lines
Pulling us back like elastic bands
Pinching the skin
Leaving stinging nettle welts
Skinned our hearts as well as our knees
Long hot summers take our breath away
Blackberry juice dripping from our chins
The taste of nostalgia still on our tongues
Hot pavements burnt our feet
Sticky sweat mixed with mud dries
Daisy chains bound our wrists
Wasps circle the sugar
oozing from honeyed sandwiches
Hands searching for forbidden fruit
What is time but blurred lines
Pulling us back like elastic bands.

The black cloud subsided when the rain came down.
Down it came again and again
The black cloud shrouded the land
And the sea
Covered it in pain and again
The black cloud created the night when it was day
Darkened it in shame and again
The black cloud subsided when the rain came down
Took away the pain and the shame