Static [manxman]

A Little Prayer

Hair softly curling around my fingers

Body still with sleep

Breathing rhythmic

Before you fell asleep your eyes were red

Tip of your nose glowing pink

Like you knew what was to come

I never tell you, because I'm cruel

Because I don't know how to look at you and tell you I'm leaving

I don't know when or if I'll return to you

As if you could force me to stay with your lips

You kissed me for eternity

Limbs wrapped around me like chains

Hopes that you'll forget me

Gnaw in the back of my brain

It'd be easier for you--a more fulfilling life

Forgetting isn't in your nature

And neither is letting go

Gods know I'll always come back if there's a way

One of these days

I pray I can stay

Just to give you the life you crave