Painful eyes denied

Sometimes I am afraid to show my pain.

Sometimes to express is to hurt another.

All of the feelings felt inside of my heart.

All of the love accompanied by painful eyes.

I see the depth of sorrow within my lovers kiss.

I find ways to feel the pain when she holds me so close.

I only wonder if my taking her pain is a sin.

I never asked for it, I took it regardless the cost.



Singing sorrowful songs inside of dreams so far from home,

rests the light within her touch, the pleasure in her pain.

Knowing only the way to heal what she feels so deep within,

trying not to break apart, but for her love I will bend.

Testing waters unlike any I have encountered in times before,

true pain in anguish burning eyes beyond my reach.

I wait there for her to sleep so I can comfort her somehow,

making what she feels my only way to stop her tears.

Desire in my suffering leading to compromise,

darker light unforgiving in shadows bleeding time.

She wakes without knowing why my eyes are filled with blood,

no lie to escape the fact that her heart is killing me.

Seeing past the grave to a realm where lovers sing,

songs of love and hope without reasons to cry for life.

She will wake up tomorrow feeling a peace unlike today,

for in my death rests her pain she wasn’t able to release.













Johnny Love