Glass Heart

What was I supposed to do?

Stand aside and watch you weep?

Let my glass heart fall, and shatter on the ground

As you sit,

Tear tracks down your cheeks

Panda eyes;

But you're a sad clown

And you don't make me laugh.

I don't understand it

The way you work

The way your mind twists and turns

I don't understand it.

Once I tried to get into your mind.

I found myself lost

In the middle of a forest of thorns

Scratching me

Bleeding me

Burning me

And I saw you

Wandering unscathed,

Through the darkness

A white unlit candle in your hand.

I pushed my way forward

Trying to get to you

Save you from yourself.

But you turned your body away

And only your eyes and smile lingered

A Cheshire cat of dream wreathes

You flitted through the thorns

Leaving a single footprint,

And a single snowdrop blossomed in the compressed soil.

I fell into those eyes

And awoke again as myself

I cannot understand it

The way your mind works

Will you always be lost in that maze of darkness?

Doomed to wander those dread paths for eternity?

I cannot understand it

The way I can't express myself in words when I speak

And yet I need no words to tell you that I love you.