happiness

there are a million tears
choking the back of a smile
around the world
and a million reasons left unknown and unexposed
clogging the depths of my mind

yet life goes on.

setting a soul free
by destroying it
is the last thing i would do
but it was the last thing i did.

if only you could see
then you would feel it.

i could let your world
evolve around me
like it was before
when our fingers touched
but what good would it come to
for you to learn to live
for yourself?

it would be easy to come running back
but the hardest thing to do
was the hardest choice i made
and letting you go for all the love i had for you
was the choice i chose to face.

if only you could see
then you would feel it.

not a single star can save me
only the conscience of
a broken heart
and there are a million tears
burning the back of our smiles
but one day when you
open your eyes
to a heart you claimed to know

you will truly be as free
as i wanted you to be
and you would feel it.