Takes a Lifetime

Oh the memories of you
Have stayed with me through my life
Like scars

Shattered life - years ago
Thought I’d thrown the pieces away!
Guess I kept a few 

I tried to hide them - deny them
Disguise them as something else
Never, they remained

Old wound–a new pain
I felt the way we were
Insane lows - the blindest highs

We were the stars 
Bright were our nights, until we
Burned away with the sun

I fell away when I found out about you
All we might've had
Murdered and buried away

On life's highway 
Stuck in memory lane 
Worlds collide years fold away
In an old picture of you

I fall away when I see you again
All that we had
Unearthed and alive today 

Pain drives me
Pain reminds me

It takes a lifetime
To say goodbye 

I have to find you
Just to get over you

It takes a lifetime
To say goodbye

Takes A Lifetime

Deception Dealer

How often have I heard?
That time can heal all wounds
Wish it were true
Especially with you
But, some wounds are just too deep

Time cannot heal		
A wound out of reach	
Hides and conceals
Nothing fills 
The breach - 	

You took me for a ride
A ride I wasn't looking to catch
Fateful trip
Never had a grip!
Went nowhere, everywhere, and back  

Cuts out of sight 
Burn with new flames    
Straight as midnight
Bleed without pain - 

If you find me now
Like you found me then
When days were free
So easy to spend
You'd remember me
Like I remember you
A chance to feel
What years never mend

I'm no genie
Your wish is not my command
Won’t give away
One more day  
Prisoner bottled tight and trapped

Carried outside
Concealed within
Nowhere to hide
Where pain has been

Deception Dealer

The Presence of Absence     

Hides all I see
No lies in how I feel

Everything I lose
Is all that I find

Consumed by the presence of absence

It's no mistake 
Parades in the rain      

What's taken from Me
Is all that remains

Consumed by the presence of absence

A double take
On an empty space

I'm gripped by something
When there's nothing to face

From life understood  
To your lost embrace  

Like the Elgin stones  
I'm moved out of place

Consumed by the presence of absence

Before memories 
It’s now and all that will be

Go another round
With what’s not around anymore

Moving on is not moving on when your....

Living with ghosts and shadows
And standing in a room with no floors 

Driven by ghosts and shadows
And living in a room with no doors

SYNGE