If Love Was a Crime

I'll be up late tonight,

Like yesterday.

Just wake me up at twilight. 

Where did you go?

You were so intoxicating,

My heart is suffocating.

I try and remember-

But your touches are cold,

Your kisses are stale.

Why can't I find you?

I listen to the slurred words,

The stumbling giggles,

But I can't hear a thing.

Assaulting my eyes are images of you,

Handing over your will-

Drinking, smoking, laughing- high.

Who is this empty shell of a man,

You've asked me to fill? 

Keep it together

Should forgetting you be this easy?

How far is hate from love?

"The vessel's been drained"

My soul is frozen,

Yet my body is burning, 

How did I swallow this fire? 

Why am I bruising?

I begged for your protection,

Promised to be your soldier.

Your comrade in arms,

Your ally, musketeer...

But now I'm being locked up,

Bound by my wrists,

And I'm the one who's kneeling. 

Why won't you save me?

My fingers tremble with anger,

My breathing deepens with rage,

My shoulders harden like a shield,

To stop my body from breaking.

When did I become your accessory, 

Or agree to feed your ego?

I gave you a throne

But now you're sitting on me. 

A prisoner of war

I betrayed my comrade,

Like a kite I got stuck in a tree. 

No soldier of mine,

Or partner in crime,

Why am I your hostage?

"Guilty as charged"

Stop mocking me,

Please set me free,

Don't remind me that the penalty...

For those optimistic dreams of us...

Is death. 

You never did let me forget how it felt to cry.

Reviews

[micky]

Wow!! Powerful and strong piece you did a wonderful job Well done!;p