Midnight Tears

Why won’t they stop – these tears I bleed?
When will I be released, when will I be freed?
I don’t want to remember, remember the pain,
That falls even now like an endless rain.

Why won’t someone save me from the waters I’m in,
Because I’m no longer strong enough to swim,
I am unable to breathe through lungs that are shattered,
And am slowly losing hope in what mattered.

There’s a hole in my chest that’s bleeding and raw,
But I’m not brave enough to show such a flaw,
What is important, who am I,
And does it even matter when there is no one to hear me cry?

Why do I crave for a love that consumes,
When love has shown me it leads only to doom?
I just want to hear those three words once and know they are real,
So that I can banish the way pretend makes me feel.

But there’s no hero for me, myself only here,
Loneliness the blanket I have only to draw near,
I’m tired of swimming, I’m tired of crying,
Is this what it feels like, to feel hope dying?

Please make it stop, this ache that I bear,
Because I haven’t anyone with whom to share,
It grows heavy and cloying within my head,
All the memories of the lies that’s been said.