How Can I? Poem by Mark Heathcote

How can I laugh anymore?
When you don't care anymore
How can I sing in the shower anymore?
When you don't call anymore

How can I happily dance in a rainstorm?
Or sleep peacefully in the night?
When your arms aren't there to catch me
Or hold me tightly anymore

Oh, how can I go on living anymore?
Knowing there's no more reason
to smile or laugh anymore
Knowing there's no more reason
to count the hours again till we kiss.

Oh, how I reminisce waking up in bliss
With fingers interlocking
And the nape of my neck tingling
And my heart writing love poetry again
In touch with its muse, the morning dew falling?

Oh, how can I go on dreaming?
One day again, you'll be mine smiling
Oh, how can I go on hoping?
Fate will be kind. When now you've
got someone else on your fickle mind, and she isn't me.

Oh, how can I laugh anymore, dear?
When you don't care anymore
How can I sing in the shower anymore?
When you don't call here anymore.

How can I drown my tears anymore?
When it's too painful to find a rainbow
and walk on air without you.
Sure, it's much easier to freeze in the snow
then listen to any more of your lies.