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Everyday

Everyday I wake up to you

Makes me smile to see your face

A peaceful expression that etches across your features

So content in dreaming

And when you wake, your green eyes shine as they stare into mine

You smile and say all the right things

You push past all boundaries just to make me happy

And when you wake I try to reply to all your wonderful sayings

Try to express the same amount as you

But no matter how much energy I waste

It will never accumulate

Because your connection is deeper than mine

It always will be

And I can pretend

I can pretend to love you with all that I am

I can try to say all the right things

But I would give anything to go back in time

Change when I let you in and why I let you stay so long

I made you believe that you belonged

Sometimes lying here with you by my side

Lying awake, waiting for the day to take me away

I think of all the times when you made me smile

How effortless it was

Now every morning, I force one

Hoping that it will be enough

That you will never see past my facade

I pray for change, that I can tell you everything

That for once, a moment can be real

And there are few that shine through

That pushes past my memory gap

Believing that maybe this could work

Yet knowing on the inside I could never account for what you do

So I close my eyes and dream of the night

When you were mine

That very first time

When all was real and true

I didn't have to think anything through

Because it wasn't for a show, it wasn't for pretend

It meant something then

So every night when we gather in the dim light

And I let you put your arm around me

Hold me in the dark veil of the outside

All I think is— I want this to be true

I want it to be real; I want to feel something inside me come alive

But regret and guilt eats away all that remains

Yet you stay, I stay

Because I don’t know how to tell you in so many words

That you aren't enough

I could have prevented all that has occurred

With a few simple words

I never learnt to say a million things

Not in that way

So looking at you now and knowing in a few minutes

You’ll be awake, ready to start the day

I think this is a better way

Of telling you everything

Because I’m hoping you heard

All that I had to say

While you were sleeping

So tomorrow I think I might be leaving

I think that might be the day I start living

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Written by
leira
Published
Jul 19, 2013
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Companion to "Consequences"

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