Back to You

How do I explain the misery,

and that this heart knows no peace?

Shattered in your memory,

I weave a world of echoes,

and where dawns rise heavy.

Tell me, love, where do I go?

The roads have turned to mist,

and I feared, always,

that one day I’d lose my way to you.

When you're not near,

this soul writhes in silence.

Stay, don’t slip away

like a dream that fades with waking.

You are my undoing, my only prayer,

the stars I gathered when you asked,

the fire I walked through unafraid.

You live within me,

yet distance has made a home between us.

They laugh, unburdened, as if love is light

tell me, how do they hide what I cannot?

Hope has left me hollow,

trapped in the weight of words unspoken,

chained to a longing I never chose.

I have called the world to witness

it has always been you.

Your presence, my sun;

your absence, my eclipse.

Let me come closer,

let me stand in the glow of your silence,

for even in your quiet,

I will find my way back to you.