A Stranger’s Eyes

It was never going to happen

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It was never going to happen

everything, so dull but sure

But then falling in around me

the walls went insecure.

The timing wasn’t perfect.

I just told myself to fight.

Give me reasons. Give me hope.

Give me pause for second sight.

Broken arrows in my lance.

Rotted love notes in my mind.

Places I would kill to keep

in the dreams that I made blind.

Always, nothing feels forever,

When the pain inside me cries.

We are nothing but naïve

Looking in a stranger’s eyes.

Drowning in the look you give me.

Swimming deep without the rules.

Do I see a hint of something

when I have so much to lose?

Would you promise me you love me

and then take it all away?

If I gave you my tomorrows

could you say you’re not afraid?