Vanity

 
you don't understand me
and I can't make you
your darkness wail
I whispered to you tenderness

I covet the stars in your skies
they shine and dazed your soul
your secrets kept
were warnings I fail to heed

I talk to you about our love
you denied the feeling
sacred in its truth

honest emotions between you and I
they lay naked, bare and bereft
lingering in the unsaid words between us

your doubt hurt me
you couldn't see what I saw
your ego was steadfast

stoic in your loneliness
you couldn't touch my emptiness
with your vanity

I sulk in the background of your desire
that raged without thought or care
to burn in the brutaltiy without me