Inside Out || Completed

Here I Stand and Face the Rain

I stand before you in this rain
You keep dry in the open doorway
Fully aware of this growing pain
Waiting silently till something, you say

I step towards, but I refrain
For breaking your heart, this price I pay
At the threshold you remain
Standing here soaking, I will stay

Thoughts rush inside, like a pounding train
Wondering when my heart, you'll slay
Any second now, you'll leave me maim
Please forgive me; I hope I pray

You close the door, but at least you came
I said I could take it, come what may
But now the tears in mine eyes won't tame
The fibers of my very heart begin to fray

I knew I shouldn't have tried to attain
A soothing forgiveness, how cliché
I should never have hoped, you'd be humane
Nevertheless my heart's dismay

Thoughts rush inside, like a pounding train
Wondering when, my heart, you'll slay
Any second now, you'll leave me maim
Please forgive me; I hope I pray

You close the door but at least you came
I said I could take it, come what may
But now tears in mine eyes won't tame
The fibers of my very heart begin to fray

I knew I shouldn't have tried to attain
A soothing forgiveness, how cliché
I should never have hoped, you'd be humane
Nevertheless, my heart's in dismay

You've choked me with a silent chain
We've thrown away everything from
Yesterday
For you this I have no one to blame
For you are the one I did betray

-Amber Bloom