Locked up inside

This I pray

That you don’t die

With all your grief locked up inside

And then she sighed

With that far away look in her eye

Suggesting she knew a deeper part of me

That I was yet to set free

Oh how those words

Made my heart ache

And fired the urge

So deep within my soul

To make of this

Slowly growing bond between us

Something majestic

And so when fearful demons called

From shadows in the wings

Telling tales that threatened to obliterate

Or burn to ash

The tender root of things

I decided it was time to put a stop to this

To close the door on those invasions

Fed by lies

That happiness for me would never be found

Again

Because deep within the circumference of her eyes

I finally discovered

An earthly paradise

Within which my soul could dance

Freed of the burden and the trance

Of seductive loneliness

That dogged me

And oh how desperately I longed for this

To be finally free

Of all of those griefs and burdens

That had nothing at all

To do with me