Learned The Hard Way
You called me
on the telephone
to say you loved me
and I'd never be alone.
I was the beauty
of your broken heart;
you were staying here
and we would never part.
You loved my breath and
deep passionate sighs,
the blues of nights
and the green of my eyes.
Loved me more than life,
then left in silence deep,
and there in the distance
listened to me weep.
Took me years and years
to finally believe it all,
then you up and went
when I finally was the one to fall
over the edge and into
the abyss.
These days I only feel
sharp pins in flesh once sweet.
The sound of your voice vanished
when I admitted we would never again meet.
So, no more chances
will I take
and love isn't something
these days that I want to make
as I live in the crevice of that abyss,
looking up, not into your eyes,
but still it's that shade of blue
in the bright sun skies,
only these days I learn the hard way
to finally say good-bye
'cause sometimes,
things just turn out this way.