Two Souls Apart (Part I) Two souls met They fell in love At the wrong time The right people In the wrong place She was beautiful Hair gold as the sun Flaring like wildfire He was simple enough An artist with sound With a wanderers heart She was never who She told him she was Maybe he was never Completely honest With her either They always meant well And they were so happy Plans of running away Far from everyone else Isolation on an island Separated by miles of water Away from judging eyes But how long could it last These fairy-tale romances Just never seem to survive The cold winters of distance So they parted ways Hearts torn into pieces Plagued by memories The taste of her lips Her skin warm and soft She tried to drown him out With another in her bed He screamed his songs Desperate to be rid of her She was slowly overwhelmed So far away from home He threw himself into the divine Turning from the sin he held Becoming a saint of high regard He found someone new On the Saint Who Fell for the Sinner (Part II) He didn't go looking for her Truth be told she just fell into his life He was held captive At the beauty she possessed Her eyes as spacious as the sky Deeper than any well of knowledge So he chased her She led him through the woods A deep dark and twisted path More than once he nearly gave up But she played him well She held his attention until he was hopelessly lost When she felt safe she stopped The saint wondered at her Such a fair and beautiful creature She showed him her scars Her sins and filthy addictions Somehow he was not repelled by this Instead he found himself drawn even more So he sheltered her fragile soul Until the day she forgot to maintain her lies The saint was destroyed at the deception of the sinner He was driven to madness The saint searched for comfort Something to help find the pieces of his shattered heart To stitch it together again But he found no cure No method of healing that would bring him back In this way the sinner destroyed the saint Integration (Part III) He wondered hopelessly for months on end Searching for peace All he could find was distractions Nothing permanent to occupy his time Functioning was near impossible Nothing held his interest anymore He played his songs but was discouraged Wrote his words but they seemed empty He could not bring himself back into civilization He separated himself from all others As much as he could He couldn't merge back Made no connections with any meaning He was so disconnected And old memories resurfaced He found himself longing for her again For her kiss and her touch To feel the warmth of her skin again Her hand holding his so tight He wondered if she felt the same The second half of his soul Evanesce the Island (Part IV)* Maybe all their plans Weren't so foolish after all What if they had known exactly What they needed to survive Shouldn't they run away from the world To set themselves apart From a cruel and cold world That they aren't fit for Let it be just them so far away From all the rest of the world Let them do as they please away From all eyes Let them love like they were made On a beach under the sun Away from these rainy days That never end ~W.C.