Haunted (A Collaboration W/Audrey Carey)

Every corner I turn, I see your sweet face Its memory, like a ghost, haunts me still I recall how you loved me, you gave me your all I can not believe that I just let you go! Now my heart, so heavy, my days dreary and dark It is I whose pride I must cast aside I must search in earnest, lay every doubt aside And pray day comes, when again, I touch your sweet face When days become brighter no longer to exist in the dark I promise, on my honor to give you my all 'Til you return to me, there is no place I want to go So right here in this time I wait for you still Your joy, your pain, every heart beat, I'll share it all We’ll blend as one, lay insecurities aside Wherever you may be, my heart and I also will go Haunted no longer by the memory of your sweet face For now I know above all else, I love you still In the light of your eyes I bloom, but slowly, I die in the dark When the storms of life bring in clouds so dark When loneliness engulfs me, clearly I see it all In the quiet of night when all is still I lay alone in our bed, I cast my mask aside On your pillow I swear there’s the imprint of your sweet face Tears flow, my pain grows, get no respite, no where to go Every thought of you lingers and won’t let me go Find no comfort in solitude as I sit in the dark I pretend your laying here; I can almost touch your face Ingratitude was what I offered, while you gave to me your all Your love, your quiet devotion, taken for granted and cast aside For wanton, shallow affection, now I’m nothing! I need you still If only you could see me and I could see you still If you would come to me now, today, or I to you, go I’d pledge my life; my true devotion put my wanderings aside No longer would sadness embrace me as I pace in the dark My heart I’d give only to you, I'd forsake the many others, all! And bask in sunlight forever, if I could only see your sweet face In my eyes your still the light that shines in the dark I would go anywhere for you, for you I'd give my all Brush my foolish pride aside that once more I may see your sweet face * Entry for Jared Pickett's "Sestina" Contest