Lost Song

Author's note: Format of this melody is ABAC


                     Lost Song

Do you feel the pain but close your heart
defending yourself from love?

Or does nothing touch you anymore?
Have you raised yourself above

         the melancholy memories
         of moonlight long since past ~
         the part of me you made yourself
         with words that wouldn't last?

                     *****

With my hand I can touch you
         and yet I can't reach you.
                   I can speak but you never will hear me.

With your eyes you unlock
         every door to my soul.
                   But there's nothing left for you to see.

                     *****

Oh, why can't I just let you go ~
pretend it never was?

Is there something more to what you say?
I need to know, because

         the caress of your lips on an indigo night
         the touches that made my forever;
         All the quiet romances that bound me to you
         are the ties I'm unable to sever.

                     *****

I'll get by
         knowing you're happy ~
                   I can live if I know you're content.

But there's pain in the warmth
         that accompanies the memories
                   of all of the time I have spent

                     loving you.