Unraveling the Key

Unraveling The Key I painted on your shadow A picture of your skin Wandered in your darkness To end your suffering But the doors inside your mystery Were basking in the sun Drawing parallels to other dances Of discovering The Key The pages of your sorrow Were left to be read by none And the emptiness of our lives Left this thread of love undone Now the departed lay in hours of wishes At the feet of our quiet summer This is the ballet of those kisses Where the forlorn reach out to us forever Now you hide within a barb-ed cage The incarceration of all my destiny The trapping of the ragged days Of discovering The Key I became the smiling card cheat To earn your lies Knowing I would lose my heart beat In the pretense of your eyes As you discussed the debate of all All you would do for love How all worlds end seemed so small In the face of love Already you found me Upward diving into the blue Already released in me Every molecule of you Fool me beneath everything Fool me for believing in possibility And fool you for never unlocking Unraveling The Key And all this life has pondered another answer But for buried words to devastate Waited for the sustenance it would have found there And drank instead the falsehood you now emancipate Kate All the years have by me flown And for those hold us responsible While I still hold your Key To unraveling your mystery of the impossible