Ghosts, Enigmas, Her Mirror

How does a person see, when they have last the soul the give in pieces to another? The better question is: how will we see when we can not get the shattered pieces back?

She is a shadow
An enigma that shatters
Breaks me to pieces forever
Forever broken for her

I search through the night
I even search the shadows
Hoping she will be in there
After I look for the light

It flickers and blinks
From a rusted connection
Caused by a overfilled tub
And waters drips from above

Thoughts of her are both
Torture and healing
Each memory drops down
Like the water above my bed

She haunts my light
Casting her shadow careless
A mystery in shattered glass
Suffer the memory in light

Light that I suffer exposed
I know I loved my shadow
With all of my lumpy soul
No matter married to memory

I vowed all of me to her
Even in death I whisper
To this enigma I loved
And searched her depths

How can a man forget
About love so true
In giving my soul rest
She still keeps a curfew

After hours in the dark
She lingers in reflection
Looking at her shadow face
In a mirror dimly lit

She sings now foreign songs
In exile with innocence sold
Buying back without silver
She can never aford the gold

Hold tight to your vow
Vengeance in your alone
I gave you my soul in pieces
Use some to purchase truth

Fire in the bedroom
Fire in your heart
Fire in the chambers
Of your deepest regret

Smoke has not cleared
Your throat closes tight
One spark you can't keep
It flies from your sight

I wait and always will
I have chained it in mind
My vow was too strong
Even in my best might

Broken now the mirror
And shattered in a wreck
Shock grips your vision dear
I only long to sleep at night

Truth in my heart rings
Like fragments of steel fall
Clinging in the light of day
Reaching for a shadow small

Flickering light reminds us
Of how our love once was
Sometimes our dreams
Sometimes only fevered rest

Sick is this word from men
And womens hearts burning
Show me your manliness
And I would come running

How can I show what is lost
And feel anything again
Forget the dripping above
Falling down into dreams

Our flooded home was built
From pieces of ourselves
You regret the rooms inside
That parts of you did build

All alone you live dreaming
Of someone going home
Longing for the past now
You stay inside shadows

I vowed to never leave
And never to forsake
I vowed this for me not you
And now I lay awake

I vowed a piece of my soul
You have it, it will be always
Telling your heart of me
And now in silence I dream

Sleepless dreams of you
My soul inside your heart
Sees what you see in mirror
That lives in the dark

I am no longer choking
I will not stay in torture
For if I die tonight my love
I will be joyful knowing you

Who you were for in light
Was who you are today
Only a flicker did I see
Now all the lights are out

Find yourself and know
A piece of me is there
I will no longer sing for you
I hung my harp on a tree

Remain until my dying day
I know this to be true
My peace my sould I gave
In pieces all to you

There is nothing to give
Back to me my love
But I will be given all
You gave to your dark soul

I am light and will be
I am burning fire blazing
You can not take away
A gift I can not give

Awaken love and see
I offer another to you
But always will you know
You left a soul so true

-W-