This way

Why is it this way

I see you everyday

But I’ve never missed you more

The look in your eyes is lifeless

And the touch of your hand cold

I can’t help but remember

The nights of carefree flirtatious banter

And fighting to keep my eyes open

Just so I didn’t spend one extra minute

Away from you

Now we poison our blood

To dull the nightly pain

Pain that comes from

Believing that a memory will return with the sun

But knowing damn well that time has set

The realization of the inevitable

That’s the hardest to grasp

That our path together, Has lead us apart

Our purpose in one another’s life

Has come and gone

And only our refusal to acknowledge is

Why it is this way