I've forgotten how I'm supposed to feel
For all I've known is love
The joys of life have passed me by
It's you I'm thinking of

My food no longer tastes the same
Salted with my tears
My hopes and dreams begin to change
Then slowly disappears

I'm trapped in things that used to be
A shadow of my past
A future filled with you and me
That somehow didn't last

How could something so beautiful,
Fade away like mist?
How can love just come and go?
Never to be missed

How can something break my heart,
When it's something I can't touch?
How can something that feels so right.
Always hurt this much?

A shadow lives inside my heart
A place where nothing's real
Where echoes reign with endless pain
A place I used to feel

Where everything I love, I break
Sooner or later is found
A hollow shell that feels like hell
But never makes a sound

And endless trail of a broken past
With tiny drops of pain
Where it always seems my hopes and dreams
Are almost daily slain

Twisted excuses litter my path
No matter where I go
A love that's bruised and been misused
Always seems to show

I'm sorry never seems enough
To cover each mistake
The things I touch , I love too much
Somehow always break

If I could erase the mistakes I've made
You would be at the top of my list
I'd erase all the tears I made you cry
And all of the years we missed

I'd erase all the scars I ever caused
And the hurt you carried inside
I'd erase all the times I said "I cared"
But I knew in my heart I lied

I'd erase all the memories that turned out sad
The memories you couldn't forget
I'd erase all the years you waisted on me
The years you learned to regret

I'd erase all the kisses you couldn't take back
And the smiles you threw away
I'd erase all the times that I said I was sorry
I didn't mean them anyway

But for you to forget all the things that I've done
It's really quite easy to see
The only thing left for me to erase
Is nothing more than me

I write with pain and paper
The tears become my ink
I live each day like it's my last
While standing on the brink

My words become my savior
They tell me where to go
Tomorrow has no meaning
A place I do not know

The paper is my shelter
It hides my past mistakes
My heart will tell me what to say
Before it finally breaks

My soul cries out in sad remorse
But no one hears me cry
No one offers a helping hand
They only pass me by

A poet's words will always scream
Before they disappear
A thousand people will read my verse
But none will truly hear

I learned a lesson a long time ago
Back before I met my wife
I made a choice I can never take back
The worst decision of my life

Now don't get me wrong I love my wife
She's the apple of my eye
I just do whatever she tells me to
And I've learned not to ask her why

Now you might say I'm henpecked
Well, my wife says that's not true
At least that's what she told me to say
Whenever I writing to you

Now it's not her fault that I'm not that wise
She says It happened before we met
Sometimes I just sit and stare at her
'Cause there's some things I just don't get

I used to be smart but not anymore
See my brain was stolen by a thief
My wife says it happened when I went to the dentist
And he pulled all my wisdom teeth

While sitting in a quiet room
My thoughts become so loud
The voices stuck inside my head
Somehow become a crowd

There's no such thing as silence
It's something we can't find
An empty space is just a myth
The noise is in our mind

Whenever you think you're all alone
A memory is by your side
It's something we cannot control
No matter how hard we've tried

Even when we're fast asleep
A dream will share its voice
Hidden things our minds must say
And still we have no choice

Sit for just a minute or two
To see if you resist
Your mind will betray your quiet time
For silence doesn't exist

Two strangers meet and fall in love
The way it's meant to be
Their love is pure and meant to last
As anyone can see

They start a family like lovers do
Two kids and brand new house
They fight the world to make it better
This husband and his spouse

They both attend the PTA
Their football games and such
They always do the best they can
But soon it becomes too much

The world keeps getting heavier
And they start to grow apart
Then distance sets up residence
Inside the lover's hearts

Then inside an empty courtroom
Custody becomes complete
Now on every other weekend
Is where two strangers meet