While You Lay Breathing Quietly

Each night, while you lay breathing quietly, I wander like a wraith through empty rooms A phantom in both life and memory, the ghost a long abandoned oath exhumes I hover like a spirit over you each night, while you lay breathing quietly, so desperate to believe what isn't true, I make the best of ambiguity This specter in the mirror isn't me These lines belong on someone elses face Each night, while you lay breathing quietly, it's loneliness that holds me in your place My worth so long defined by your extremes; extolled by love, or birched by perfidy, I find it's just the first that haunts my dreams each night, while you lay breathing quietly