Nobody knows the love that I carried for you,
the many nights I stayed awake, trusting
that fate would never let us break away
from each other.  I thought I had found what
I was looking for in you, but you taught me
that I still had a lot more to learn about love.
because real love would’ve never allowed me
to wait by the bedroom window, staring
left and right, into the distant streets, into the night,
wondering if you would ever return home.