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Never Be
(written for Minerva's "Lost Love" competition)
first time I saw you
I knew I’d love you forever
because I knew I’d loved you before
I was certain you’d haunt my days
swallow my nights
you once seemed to love me back
but you grew cruel
in words and actions
still the only thing that has ever
felt right in this life
was being with you
you made the me without you
intolerable
when before the me alone
had been bearable
once you sat playing guitar
I held onto you from behind
as if you were saving my life
you probably weren't there with me at all
but I couldn't move
couldn't stop touching
feeling you
I’d never known
burning perfection
completion
I yearned to cry in your absence
because in some way
it brought you closer to me
decades have passed
yet you still haunt my dreams
as if you hold my soul-strings
in your hands
sometimes I sit
and realize you are breathing
at this very moment
I shiver
and live for the day
you lead me back home
into the safety and rightness
of your body
your soul
forever
please
sweet love
come back to me
first time I saw you
I knew I’d love you forever
because I knew I’d loved you before
I was certain you’d haunt my days
swallow my nights
you once seemed to love me back
but you grew cruel
in words and actions
still the only thing that has ever
felt right in this life
was being with you
you made the me without you
intolerable
when before the me alone
had been bearable
once you sat playing guitar
I held onto you from behind
as if you were saving my life
you probably weren't there with me at all
but I couldn't move
couldn't stop touching
feeling you
I’d never known
burning perfection
completion
I yearned to cry in your absence
because in some way
it brought you closer to me
decades have passed
yet you still haunt my dreams
as if you hold my soul-strings
in your hands
sometimes I sit
and realize you are breathing
at this very moment
I shiver
and live for the day
you lead me back home
into the safety and rightness
of your body
your soul
forever
please
sweet love
come back to me
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