Innocence

I thought I loved you

Shallow as I was

Desperate with my infatuation

I hugged your image at night

I thought I wanted you

Radiant in my superficial dream

Unable to comprehend

Lack of passion in my soul

I wanted to love you

Tangled so tight in my lies

Reluctantly severing my gaze from yours

Your gentle eyes are full of wonder

Silent tears streak down your cheek

I long to vanish into the shadows

It hurts me to see the tragic pain in your face

Once I was naive

Wavering on the edge

Of my forbidden nightmare

Deceit is not who you are

Yet I dragged your sensitive heart through it

When you left me behind

Emerging on your own into the world

Promising that you’d love me forever

I made that precious bond also

Til it perished in the midnight hour

My innocence failed to save me

In fact, it was my undoing

Without you to protect me

I faded sinfully into hell

Banished to this primitive asylum

Thriving only on my thwarted dreams

I thought that I loved you

Ignorant in my vulnerable heart

I thought that I wanted you

Forever trapped in the haunting image of your true love