Phone rings, a familiar voice on the other end as he says hello
Silence is deafening and sounds of his voice rips her world apart
Doubt fills her heart as the once renewed love is failing to survive
Sayings if you set it free and it comes back it is meant to be forever
Forever is a long time and love to last over twelve years could last
Forever, a dream, a prayer and longing of forever to be true
She set him free over three years ago and through chance alone
They face each other again declaring their love for one another
She wishes to believe in his words and that his heart will be true
But as the hours turn into days and the days, turns into weeks
Weeks turn into months nothing has been resolved for her heart
The strength she once felt, subject to doubt and feelings of betrayal
Her heart has been stolen from her and he holds it captive again
A prisoner of his touch, his feel, his smell, his look, his love
Incapable of trusting his love any longer, needing to escape she flees
She must hide from him and protect all that she has left of her heart
Protect her children, their children from the same empty feeling
A feeling he has left on them far more than a father or lover should
The tears fall and only a prayer of forever is left in the night's eye
A man he is not and when he becomes such, his family will be gone