You don't know

You don't understand that every night he cries himself to sleep.

You don't know because he doesn't want to trouble you

with what troubles him.

He's breaking apart and trying to hold you together.

He doesn't know you're already in pieces.

He doesn't know you stopped trying to put yourself together a long time ago

because you don't want to worry him

with what worries you.

Neither of you know because

we protect the things closest to us

we embrace what we love

with one hand

and cover their eyes 

with the other.

Keeping them blind to all our pain.

He doesn't know

the man in the other room would give him 

all the stars in the sky

if he thought it would help.

Neither of them know

they are the sun, the moon and the earth to each other.

Neither of them know

they are the beginning and the end of love for each other.

Neither of them knew

until one took the others hand and told him

he cried himself to sleep last night because he was still alone.