Two Souls Meant to Destroy Each Other

“Two Souls Meant to Destroy Each Other”

I need you to talk to me…
You answer my voice, silently.
The voice that does not answer is weighted, and sad.
What emotions do you say you wish you never had?
Is it your love for me that you deny
You wish you could erase, the same as I?
How long must we circle before our hearts die?
You look at me, and see the face you want to see…
I look at you and see what I wish could be.

Shattered dawn, shattered dawn, I keep waiting
But outside my window, another year is fading.
You locked the door, and I gave you the key
Because there is no room inside for me.
Yet here I stand within, a specter that cannot haunt,
But I’m the only ghost that you want
In this house plagued by memories
Where I still hear your melodies.

What makes you come home for a little while?
I see the answer in your sad smile.
You wish you had never left this place—
And yet, you wish you could erase
While I wish I could rebuild
The wings of the angel that you killed,
Whose corpse lies between you and I:
A dead thing that is too powerful to die.

Shattered dawn, shattered dawn…
You are coming home—to me,
For a while, for a while
To see if I can set you free.
We are one another’s ache,
Though only my heart is doomed to break.
You see me—and what could have been,
If only yesterday, you had seen.
Looking at you, I see myself projected into grace,
Believing no one can take your place.
You speak of all you wish you did not feel—
I speak of something that could be real,
I speak of what yet could be
If only yesterday you could see.

© 2022 Marten Hoyle