Celestial Cleric said 9 years, 2 months ago:

On seemingly endless days
Your words never seemed to change
With exchanges never exceeding the weather

My voice never reached your own
That heavy burden of stone
I wasn’t sure if you wanted me at all

On seemingly horrid days
Your smile never seemed to change
With its teeth bearing so ferociously

The heart you never showed to me –
A boat lost at sea –
Looked so top heavy in the way you hunched over

The you that I came to know wasn’t the you that I knew
Deep down we both knew that to be true
“ Don’t come near ! I don’t want you here ! You’re meaningless to me ! ”
And, even then, that sort of you knew they were carelessly thrown knives in the water.

The heart that I hid from you was one that I was not proud of
A heart so stained in black and so deeply cracked it was formless
Even with the tears I cried to mend the fissures
It never seemed to fill them up, and so it was drained

Maybe if I had taken the time to speak in an honest voice
My tone might have reached your ears and things could have changed
But the words that I let slip were formless too –
Just as the smile I gave you.