For The Sake Of A Lover

wine stains on the carpet, meld to the smoke drifting
To create the perfect image of
What I’ve brought with me
& all I left behind

Acoustic tones couple subtle moans
a desperation we always shared
To go against the tide, still drowning
Minds in the sky, souls in the ground and
The way you rest your head on my shoulder
Sigh, like your tired,
A burning fire, left to die, left to smoulder
we simply re-learn to deny
We’re not in love, we’re just getting older

wine stains on the carpet, meld to the smoke drifting
Both forgotten, for want of cool sheets
& heated skin,
For the taste that only I know,
The look on your face
When the rhythm begins
You’re so soft, so delicate beneath me,
If it didn’t hurt so much not to have you
I’d think you weren’t real at all

To see you in the sunshine,
Might make it simpler,
But it can’t change, we’re too far away
The days drift between
Uncounted, not seized
I stay on repeat,
waiting for you to come
Rehearsing all the words
I can only hope to say,
So you won’t leave again.

These walls echo,
Reverberating the songs
I sing to you while you’re sleeping
All nights seem void,
Under the influence
Of staring at stars in search of meaning




The way you just look at me,
When you wake in the morning
That captivating blue
& that feeling still lingers
Between me & you
I wait in shadows,
Are you waiting too?
Are you betraying me with another
Keeping the peace
While you dream of your other
Tryst, so forbidden,
The way we move under covers

Never had it in me to say,
I couldn’t leave you anyway
So I’ll hold you while you shake
Try not too push too hard,
To find a way to what’s left of your heart
To remember these moments, when things fall apart
It’s all that I’ve got
But you’re all that I want.

The damage you take,
for the sake of a lover
Burns & consumes,
Hurts like no other
It buries itself under the skin
Hidden in scents and every room you go in
It won’t wash away,
And everyday
I spend without her seems empty.