here i am clutching at my chest
whimpering like a wounded dog
crying until my eyelids can't open anymore until my face aches until my throat burns until all the air has been pressed and beaten out of my lungs

that made me think of us

too loyal for my own good it seems
i would've jumped off a cliff if you had asked me to
followed you to the end of the world if you had asked me to
stayed if only you had said a word

i look for you everywhere i go

every breath i take i hope to smell your perfume with it
every book i read has me finding you between the pages
every step i take i wish it brought me back to you
every song i hear makes me remember the way you danced
every word i write is engraved in my bones just for you
every person i greet has me looking for you in their eyes
every smile i make i dedicate to you
every second my heart beats i pray yours beats at the same rhythm somewhere

thought we were birds of a feather but
we were more like a moth and a street lamp
i mistook you for the sun and spent my life trying to reach you

i sound so pitiful when the remains of my love cling to me like so many ghosts haunt an attic
i pray someone will come and dust the cobwebs away
i pray i won't tie my heart and soul to their lonely presence

love like a dog they said
how's that for love