Can you hear it in my heart?
I don’t want to be left alone,
Here, without anyone to hold
Me, without anyone to need me,
And yet, you would let me
Wait here, forever, without
Telling me what it is that is in
Your heart, and without
Telling me what I want to hear.
I have stood by the phone for
So long, and I have held on to you
For so long, but now it seems that
The strand of hope, by which I slowed
Our inevitable falling off the cliff of
Friendship, is starting to sever.
Slowly, but surely, we are fading
Away from each other, away from the
Love we had for each other, but I
Want so badly for us to be together,
For this bond to never rupture,
For this tattered strand to suddenly
Become metal chain links again,
Because it once was metal.
When the metal slashed against my skin,
This chain pulled me to you,
When the metal felt cold against your
Sick neck, I took it from you,
And when the metal gate finally fell
Between the two of us,
We held hands through the barbed wire.
This metal is part of our lives,
And so we will rebuild the chain links
That connect us, connect our very souls.
We will rebuild with love and hope,
And blood and tears, and we will come
Out of this ordeal, together.
I know this, because I know,
That forever, you have always been the one
To tell me what I need to hear,
And I could always let you know
How to fix the problem you were in,
And how to make all the messes go away.
So, is the hope still there?
Is the metal still in place?
Can you tell me what I want to hear?
