Charley Staines

Surroundings can seem so surreal,
Everybody moving in their own way,
Expressions showing their emotion,
Eyes contradicting what we perceive,
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Your lips are moving but I hear no sound,
Your arms tight around me, still I can't feel the ground,
I feel your desperation, yet still I don't respond,
All I feel is fear, the person I was now gone,
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A storm rages through you as you search for the words to speak,
Drowning in the memories, but the whole world is at your feet,
A whole life infront of you, everything else left behind,
Don't you know this is your chance, your time to really shine,
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As quick as earth moves,
As sudden as leaves fall to the ground,
Maybe one day when I awake,
My darling you wont be around,
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She walks with grace, but oh so cold,
You can look into her eyes, but you'll never know;
What she is thinking, feeling or wishing,
Is there something this woman is missing?
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There I sat on the cold, stone floor,
Wrapped, tightly around myself,
Tears falling and drying, like icicles on a window pane,
The wind whistled in the distance,
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This Juliet was bleeding,
But you can't see her blood,
The silent tears she cries,
A river flows inside.
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You shake my confidence, destroy my faith,
Though I always give and never take,
You build me up then break me down,
I will never know why i'm still around,
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So I don't see you everyday,
Birthdays and Christmas Day,
Nobody phones and nobody texts,
But luckily it's what we expect,
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So you've said it,
A thousand times you've said,
So you've heard it,
A thousand times you've heard it,
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Today I took a risk, I dared to dream,
Forgot the fall, I hope it's all it seems,
I raised my hopes up into the sky,
Do I have what it takes, to finally learn to fly?
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Here I am so far from home,
Out in the rain all alone,
Missing you so very much,
Nothing I wouldn't give to feel your touch,
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When these walls close in around me,
I feel I need to run,
When work piles over my head,
I can't do right for doing wrong,
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One encounter that meant so much,
The stories, the memories, all filled with love,
The years came and quickly passed by,
Through them all, you were right by my side,
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Can we stop the world? Here,
Right in this moment,
This is our time,
The last moment to recall,
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It holds every single piece of me,
All my secrets and all my dreams,
It's there when I laugh, there when I cry,
There when I give up, no longer want to try,
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You hurt me, so much so,
Though I still love you, you have to know,
What you did when you betrayed my trust,
All the words wont matter, but needs must,
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From across the world I reach for you,
In memory and in thought,
Though there may be distance,
None is too great,
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Hands were shaking, knees were weak,
I could've fallen at any moment,
But I stood rigid. Staring,
Directly into her eyes, as she spoke,
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Forget you,
I'll never do,
Wherever life takes me to,
Looking back on this time,
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