The Secret We Must Never Share
You haunt my dreams
Walking from page to page
Slipping through cracks of walls and gates
Following each hour
You blend and twist the faces
Of everyone I know
And I find myself looking at you
Some moments I see your sneer
Your face full of anger and hate
Twisting your features into sharp lines
Daggers that cut through to my soul
Mocking me, folding me in upon myself
But not always, no, not always
Most nights I see your smile
Your eyes soft and full of light
Dark depths gleaming
Tender lips
You are so close I can touch you
And as I do, I feel your skin
Familiar and warm and still it calls to me
Come home, come home
Deep within my dreams my heart aches
Aches at this trickery
Aches to touch you as I awake
Aches to taste your sweetness again
Aches to feel your love
Aches remembering this loss
This death of what was once ours
Your betrayals cut into me
And my betrayals bleed and bleed
I can't forgive either of us for what we have done
You for your cruelty, or me for running to another,
Doing as he said, believing all he claimed.
You said last that you loved me and I called it a lie
How could it be anything but
After you hurt me the ways that you had
But my heart whispered that it was truth
You refuse to look at me now
Another mans band on my left hand
Attorneys speaking of the promises I now break
Me hiding the shame in my face
Remembering I must to keep the family I now have
But in my dreams you haunt me still
It is the only place we can find our love again
It is the only place I can speak my truth
That you were the one no other would be like
That I had given my all to you.
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