When the Music Fades

Let me in so I can learn the love you have, 

so I may be free

but speak it with a touch of your softness

and blanket it in your tranquility.

The Autumn sun in your eyes shines so bright

and the beauty you cast 

is one of wonder and delight. 

I’m learning to speak how I feel

and I feel as much as they

but the melancholy mask I wear 

is the condition I display.

While these tears pour out as ink,

my sighs breath out as words

and the smiles I pass... I cannot afford. 

While loving in truth and in this pain, 

in due time my love will show.

My time has slipped away, 

and I fear she’ll never know.

Now with my slow words 

and plagued with my dumb eloquence 

she leans over and says, “it’s over” 

in her own sweet breath of defense. 

Love gave me the wound, 

which while I breath will still bleed.

I’ll go to any lengths of love’s decrees, 

I’ll push forward and I’ll agree.

We’ve experience it all, 

from heavenly beams infused with Hellish pain 

to beautiful sunsets and crimson clouds- pouring rain. 

When I was stumbling through this life, 

it was your touch that brought me peace.

And when I was without words,

you spoke for me with a fragrance in your voice. 

The quivering smile I pass 

used to fill this empty space,

the door that came by the presences of your face.

I’m learning to love right

and I’ll never be wrong again,

I’m learning to never stop

and your passions I will defend.