Something You Lost

She'll never know

When she tells you goodnight

The fear that you hide

As she lays by your side

When you stand

All the faults of a man

Etched right in your face

Still she lays there in place

How the warmth

Of the garden you sowed

Is the stuff of these bones

Once broken and cold

And you go home

And you sleep in your bed

Feel like your dancing in sync

With the ghosts in your head

And she wakes

You say, “go back to sleep”

You dare never say

The greatest secret you keep

Is that you might be alone

That you might have to run

That the rest of your life

Will be a series of nights

That you spend in your mind

Staring backwards through time

At something you lost

And you'll never be home

You'll never be one

Eyes closed in the sun

On a warm day in June

But on the damp dirty floor

Of your wintry cold room

You see her face in the dust

How it fills you up

And you say hello

Hello

Please don't ever leave

Please don't ever go

And you can call me a man

It's etched right in my face

But it could never span

The endless expanse of space

All around us alone

And just this one small home

One brief moment of time

The only thing I call mine

Is this line that we crossed

And how it came at the cost

Of everything that I lost