This is on your answering machine.

Belief

There was only one star in the sky,
One scar to navigate the pain by.
Yet staring at its warming light
While it burned my soul to its very core
Left me thinking I should escape.

But why should I want to escape the very
Heat that makes me feel like I'm alive,
Adds colour to the washed out black and
Grey that characterizes my life?

The distance between us made light years
Fade into insignificance, blurred eyes and
Stirred a maelstrom within every bit of my being.
It made every atom in my body ache
With the pain of not having you yet wanting you so.

But, I was told not to give up hope, yet I watched
You stare into the sky as indifferent as I could never be.
I don't want you to believe that you're free, that you're
Happier than I could ever hope to make you feel.

I want you to come back, to know me again, to remember
When we were lovers, and best friends.
I don't want to feel this pain anymore, I don't want you
to show me the door, and slam it, on my heart, lay a
Heavy burden in my head, and think how it might be.

Because I can't tell you how it might be, how I might be,
How you might be. I need to discover that, and so do you,
Or so I hope, so I pray, as agnostic as I may be.
I just don't want to beg, but please, please, don't be so
Apathetic to someone who loves you so.

You've heard it before, I know, I know, don't tell me
I should just go and leave you forever, because I was
So much that I made you feel like such and indeed
I would concede that maybe passion got misplaced,
But that didn't stop me smiling everytime I saw your face.

I still smile when I talk of you, I've been told you can hear my
Smile in my voice. I can't begin to list the things you know
We've done and triumphed and achieved, so please just listen,
Listen to me, to yourself, and believe,
Believe we can be one and whole and me and you.

(c)2005 Stuart Mathieson

Bonus points if you can tell what album I was listening to.

wow, Stu. this one really hurt. at least i'm not alone in being left alone.

Thanks, Dea. Everyone's alone sometimes, that's where we get our inspiration. Surprised that after 22 views noone's commented besides yourself. I didn't think it was that bad.

Well, I liked the Light Years and Insiginificance reference... if it was deliberate of course