Monday, January 30, 2006

Tonight

I never thought I'd hear myself say this again,
but I don't want to be alone tonight.
I don't want to feel the security,
nor the strength that I've found in me alone;
I refuse to take pride in my independence,
and in my ability to stand on my own.

I don't want to be alone tonight,
with my objective mind as my sole companion,
with reason as my comfort,
and rationality, my defense.

i feel the familiarity in my hard-earned peace,
and hard as it might be to fully admit,
I feel no sense in this silence,
No complacency in this numbness.

I fought hard to realize that I am strong,
and my dependence is but a myth;
I myself am complete,
with no missing piece but me,
and me alone;
nights are made for the sun to rest it's core;
for minds to sleep and leave before.
nights are merely nights, and nothing more.

I never thought I'd feel this once again,
but I don't want to be alone tonight.
With your song faintly playing from afar
Without the warmth that your silly strangeness brings,
away from the depth of the emotion in your eyes,
free from the gentle curve of your lips when you smile...

I never wanted to feel this again,
For I am finally where I want to be.
In a place where I am not within the reach of hurting,
the state of mind where I am free of feeling pain.
Away from needing and longing and wanting...
here, away from where you seem to be.

Who knew that I would mean saying this again,
that I don't want to be alone tonight.
for your thought alone makes me see where I really am,
in the middle of nowhere,
floating with the new me,
free, yet melancholy...
safe, but alone.

That is what's teuw -
I am alone tonight,
with all of what I now have in me -
my security, my strength,
my pride, my independence,
my reason, my rationality,
my defense, my peace,
my complacency,my freedom,
my safety, my heart and my mind...

yet, I say this with all honesty;

I don't want to be alone tonight.
Alone,
Without the fear of not having you,
without feeling the weakness
and humility that you found in me,
without the dependence that I may feel with your presence,
without the chains that tie my heart and mind to you.
without my irrationality,
my chaos, and all my uncertainty,
without the thought that I have been fooling myself
In thinking I was whole;for it is you that complete me.

I don't want to be alone tonight.
And I am shattered,
despite the fact that I am with all that I worked hard for.
one certainty - I would be awake until the crack of dawn.
One truth stands, and suddenly, my numbness is merely a theory.
tonight, I am alone.
with everything that I thought was real.

with everything that I wish I held in me.
with everything that I now do hold true...

... without you.

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