Pain and Loss

Do you want to hear of my pain?
Do you want to suffer my shame?
Do I need to lose your love?
Did I have to love in vain?

I would not wish this gut-wrenching pain
On any soul that has felt the sun-soaked rain
To have loved a woman that severed
my spine
To have lost a woman that I thought
was mine

Weathered and tired I sleep
Never able dream I weep
For my dreams have been washed away
Along with the hope that any love shall stay

It's pitiful and sad I know it's true
But pain is best written when the soul is blue
Expressing the thoughts that swirled my head
Realizing she would no longer be in my bed.

I can only hope that she knows I tried
To be the man that would have never lied
Nor cheated, nor lashed out with my tongue
No fists, or neglect, just compassion warmed by the sun.