Alone In The Dark

 

Alone In The Dark

Alone in the dark, tonight I stand

A lost and lonely, broken man

Seeking for a hand to hold

Seeking a mending of my soul.

I turn that way and I turn this

Yearning for a devouring kiss

Craving for a sweet caress

To calm the storming in my chest.

It hurts, the wounding that I feel

When my eyes saw love was not real

Just an illusion, a butterfly

A glimpse in the corner of my eye.

That touched me with a smile so fair

And left me bewildered, standing there

Not knowing right, not knowing wrong

But hearing snippets of your song.

The song, I know, you wrote for me

Beneath the weeping willow tree

When our eyes met and our hearts clove

And my soul knew I'd found my love.

And I held to that lovely prize

That I thought lived there in your eyes

But, alas, that gift was not to be

When you took that love away from me.

 

And here I stand in the dark alone

Still not accepting that you're gone

Not accepting the pain or the cut of the lies

That ripped me to ribbons with the cold of your eyes.

I stand here alone in the dark  by myself

Wondering if there is any love left

But all I feel are teardrops rolling down off my face

And of your beautiful love song, I hear only a trace.

And the sound of your laughter in the cold midnight breeze

Ever the temptress, ever the tease

You don't know what love is, you don't have a clue

How to love me in earnest but you know I love you.

So I wait in the cold as the snow's falling down

And it molds to my form and I freeze to the ground

Just a sad frozen sight, a heartbroken snow man

With his eyes full of tears, and his bare outstretched hands.

Reaching to you who cannot reach for me

Looking for you who will not look at me

Living and loving  but loving unknown

Crying and dying in the dark all alone.

©by Voo Shining Stone

Oct 23, 2020