The Sorrows of Love
The Sorrows of Love
As I lay here crying, as I lay here dying
With great pain I end my sighing.
To a better world I now embark
For the one I leave behind is bleak and stark.
Step by step my journey I begin to take
Reveling in the dream from which I hope to never wake.
My trust in man has been shattered
And my soul is now beaten and tattered.
With my heart encased in your ice
I forget what it means to be nice.
With silent vows to myself I reject all forms of love
From now on I shall be the hawk and not again the dove.
In my world of ice and snow I rebelled against you
Until one day I saw beauty in the morning dew.
With a heavy heart I look upon the plights I have wrought,
I look upon the lives I ruined without a second thought.
With arms outstretched I beg forgiveness for my transgressions
And seek to make peace through my concessions.
At last, at last from my dream I awake, to a world of promise and hope
And in which I must struggle not to descend down its treacherous slope.
Still you haunt me to this day with your suffering and pain
Whenever I begin to melt your ice, you return to freeze me again.
The end is now in sight, your honeyed words no longer hold sway
For finally I am free from you this bittersweet day.