Dead Can Dance

you walk beside me in your beautiful white linen shirt and i am taken back with your graceful posture. you somehow tolerate me in your life. but why i am not sure. if only you could feel the inside of the tears that cascade down my cheeks. full of bitter salt and sadness. i am not whomever you thought i was. you never knew me at all. just made yourself believe that you did. i hurt you and that was all that you could see.

holding back tears hurts like hell

they feel like needles behind these eyes

the carnival is over