Night so thick I cannot see
what is right in front of me.
You have given me chance upon chance
to make it right, and yet I cannot.
I cannot love you as you need to be loved,
cannot give you my all.
So take what I can offer,
love me for who I am.

A broken shell of a woman.
A woman whose heart has been broken
time and time again they let me down.
Life has taught a lesson that cannot be easily forgotten.
Love is like lightning as it flashes across the sky,
beautiful and soon forgotten.

You told me I had to make a choice,
but the choice was made for me.
You couldn’t take the pressure—
my brokenness, my pain was too much.
I never got the chance to show you
that my heart was mended. That
I wasn’t broken, as before.

You showed me that love could heal
I know it wasn’t like before,
before the nightmare that my life had become.
You couldn’t love me despite it all.
If anyone could, I thought it would be you.

With a history as painful as my own,
you should have known,
that time does indeed heal
the wounds of our souls.

It has been years, since you left.
Still I have managed to remember
the lesson that you taught.
Despite the heartache,
there is a reason to go on.

You showed up one day,
long after I thought you were gone.
After my wounds were fully healed
and I had learned to live my life
I learned another lesson that day,
sometimes love doesn’t die.

I knew that day that you were the one thing I had to have.
Your love for me had never died,
it was reflected in my own eyes as we stared each other down.
A long road ahead, is what we face,
others may not understand
But you and I, we know,
sometimes things are just meant to be.

Ten years have passed,
with you and me together
and despite our painful beginning
we made it work.
I know now that you will never let me go,
that your love will never stop.

We will be together until the end,
our pasts, tore us apart
but in our time away from each other
we learned a lesson
some people never learn.

Sometimes love doesn’t die!