2003-03-24 - 12:30 p.m.
The Veil
In the stifled heat of pain
everyone needs
a cooling rain
Tethered to you by a hope
I felt that I
could always cope
Now I can feel it within
My wings are burning
I think together we've flown
too high The showers that freed all within
do nothing now
but soak my skin
Forests that uplifted me
have all become
just groups of trees
Is that the future ahead?
What am I seeing?
Am I only looking at
the sky? How many moments have I spent
just lost in your embrace
forgetting all disgrace?
Now you won't hold me and I find
no comfort in your touch
if you offer me that much
I've already lost you
and nothing I do can make me see
the light that cherished me
You've already lost me
from all that you've cost me
to force myself to grow
just to see you let me go With a word you've dropped a veil
the mornings now
seem blank and pale
Or did the charade decay
and you have always
been this way?
No, don't you tell me the truth
I can't stand to hear it
No more than I enjoy the word
"Goodbye"
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