I Can Almost Love You When I Sing

I can almost love you when I sing

When I look at you now all I see,

Are the things that once made us we.

The bitter ends of a knot undone,

So loose now they barely cling.

But, I can almost love you when I sing.

I showed you how to reach the depths of me,

But you barely explored my shameless sea.

A place where two should be one,

I was left aloft on out-stretched wing.

Yet, I can almost love you when I sing.

A heart full with things that could be,

But I can’t feel you, I can only sense me.

By crashing waves my dreams are spun,

My abyss no longer your deep wellspring.

Still, I can almost love you when I sing.

A past with you, a future for me,

No more to ask, to hope, to plea.

At the breaking of my scarlet sun,

My long-muted brilliance at last will ring.

I stopped love you when I sing.