Return to Me


I died another death tonight
I’ve died a hundred before
My heart was pierced by a thousand arrows
Loosed by this hellish war

The pain was hard and leaden
Deep enough to taste
The cold black steely metal
Has laid my heart to waste

There’s an emptiness inside
Where part of you used to be
I’m afraid to be alone
I’m too choked up to leave

Yours was the only love
My heart had ever known
Now I think that love has died
Or at least grown stale and old

I just wanted to be your princess
And you my shining knight
But you gave up on trying and I gave up on you
Always a never ending fight

I know at times I’ve done you wrong
I’ve cut you to the bones
Now sadly I sit alone in my world
Reaping the thorns that I’ve sown

I still feel the unshed tears
Pricking in my eyes
Too stubborn, too angry, too hurt
We covered our sins with sighs

I’ve stung you with my hurtful words
You’ve stung me with your ways
If only you’d unbreak my heart
I’d lick your wounds to heal the pain

There’s a constant ache in my stomach
A hunger, a pitiless burn
It won’t stop until we become one again
Because for you, I will always yearn

The rivers of tears I have cried
Gave no consolation my soul
I only wish I could be yours again
Together, to have and to hold

Will we get back what once was lost?
Can it again be found?
It’s so hard to let you go
To your heart, mine is bound

Please say you’ll come back to my heart
It’s the only true place you belong
Together we can patch it and make it whole again
Together we can right all the wrongs


© Nicole Whaley 2001