Complete Strangers

Baby, I shall always love you
I gave you my heart more than once
each time I trusted you not
to break something already so fragile
and something that others
would love or kill to have the chance
to call their own for a little while

it was given to you with
thoughts of forever more

when you are in love with someone
you can't stand to be without them
every second away is worse than
losing a limb because
you don't choose
what your body is made of
but you do choose
whom you let in and love
whom you give your heart to
the one you entrust the one thing
that keeps you alive

you were the one that I choose
over and over again
you were the one that I wished
no matter what others said
you wouldn't hurt me again
I wouldn't have to know
heart break at your hands once more

I never hear anything from you
never know what's going on in your mind
never feeling as if I'm in your life
I feel almost like an after thought
"Oh, Hey. How are you doing?"
feel as if we are complete strangers
exchanging mere pleasantries
instead of words of intimacy and love