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this room has never felt so empty as it does when you leave
too dangerous, to walk around like this with my heart on my sleeve.
i wish you'd walk back through that door and stay forever
wrap those arms around me, and let go... never.
i hear the crackling of a smoldering ember
after i've gone, will you really remember?
-or will you forget those times we've shared
...so brief in truth- they seem so spare.

i want to give you everything
i said i'd give you anything
up to half my kingdom
up to half my kingdom.
i guess i'm not ready to give it all
until you prove your heart is true
and i know you won't betray me.

you think you're the blockage of my inspiration
-that couldn't be further from true.
the fact is, these feeble verses
are far too much beneath you
and it's been such a long time since i've felt so alone
and it's all because of you.
and after you leave
every song is a sad one.

the silence descends
like a curtain of darkness
heavy
weighted with the overbearing
mass of all i've left unsaid
pressing on my chest
like a vise
or maybe i'm just being melodramatic.