Burglarized


It takes all I have to believe
who you are, in love or in sin
to remember the way you looked at me
and how you felt across my skin.

It takes all I have to understand
what you're about there in your mind
eyes of only empty passage
to a soul that has kept me blind.

It takes all I have to feel
what's hidden inside the heart of you
here I am to see you fall away
and there's nothing I can do

because it takes all I have to love
reaching beyond my secured inner core-
and cannot, I cannot, cannot
taking all I have until I have no more
it's taken all I've got.
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