If only he’d kiss me
Put his arms around me
How many times I have wished it
Yet I conceal my longing
Some things are meant to be kept in shadow

Then a moment – One giddy, unrehearsed moment
And I ask you
To kiss me – just once, I say
Afraid to ask for more
I tell myself that it will be enough
I hold my breath
My raw soul laid bare for you
And you do the impossible
My love, my life
You press your lips against mine
Let me drown in your scent
Touch my bare skin
Feel my fingers wound through your hair
My blood sings the story of my love
Into your deaf ears
I belong here, dying for you
In your arms

But it had to end
We had to part
And it killed me to leave your side
For I knew
When we’d meet again
The next time we’d speak
You’d turn away, numb
Cold
Your eyes would not meet mine
And my heart would fall through the floor

How can you go on
Exactly as you did before?
Our moment remains a whisper
Never spoken by our own lips
A dancing tattoo on my scarred memory
Is it really better
To have loved and lost?
From where I’m standing
From where I’m bleeding
My pain thinks not.