I'd wait for you for a hundred years
I cry it from the roof but you hear nothing
I'll stay with you until the end of the world
My precious gem hidden away

All the burdens that weigh me down
Feel bigger than they used to
They are with me every day, bombard my senses  
You say that you feel nothing

"Time heals all", you say
But they're just words, not therapy
There’s a part of me that’s gone
My precious gem taken away

We always lost most precious things in our life, when the things we have to protect become too many.

Today
the sun showed me
my value
I shone
like a precious
stone
standing
alone

A conversation with you could last a life time.
Like oxygen, I take in every word you utter,
Every sound and every syllable.
I hunger for more every time silence prevails.
Words give an insight into the head
And to me your head is a place of indescribable intrigue.
Tell me more; let me in.
I lap up everything that leaves your lips
With the focus of an archer, I study these deliverers of such precious and unique information.
Speech from you is a gift to me.
The longer we talk, the more I know.
Every word you tell me slots into its place in my brain,
Too valuable to go to waste.
I will hold them forever,
My own treasure, my own snippets of you.
Your words.