Ere I heard your heartbreak
I never knew such pain
Before the ocean of your tears
I never felt such shame

The depth of cruelty bare
The raw wounds bleeding out
and all my soul in shock could do
was rationalize my doubt

Though you lay in my arms
and drove your head in deep
I only whispered my own fears
until you drifted off to sleep

In that moment I made a shift
the young man drifted far away
Then the man I had to be
came alive that very day