For seven years you were my wife.
I thought that you would share my life,
But now those days have reached the end
And you’re just trying to be my friend.
Since our divorce I’ve been a shell
Of the man you once knew so well.
If you could see the way I live
You’d see I have no love to give.
Sometimes I dream I’m still with you,
But then I wake and it’s not true.
You had a need to be set free.
Nothing I said could bring you back to me.
I try to phone, but you’re not there.
You’re out with him, but I don’t care.
I’d say I’m fine, but that’s a lie.
I sit alone each night and cry.
Each time I think I’m over you,
I see your smile and I fall through.
My mind can’t shake your memory.
I wish that it would let me be.
I feel the burning in my eyes,
And through the pain I realize
When you were leaving me in tears,
We’d never have another seven years.
Dec. 31, 1989
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