In your time

Do you fall asleep on the train?

Do you find time to complain?

Do you work your hands to the bone?

Do you thank your stars

you're not alone?

In your time

do you find time

to love deeply 

and ignore the past?

When confronted

do you look away

and hope this, too, 

shall pass?

I'm a star

and you've faltered

curse against our time and youth

I'm a star

and a lover

trying to grasp

that violence that you do

Oh, your anger
it becomes you
as your roughened beauty does

Oh, your madness
it betrays you
as did your lady loves

Buried in your past 
a criminal
possession 
you've let go

You keep busy, bite your tongue
and fail to wonder 
what love
can heal your woe

I keep my head up
eyes wide
seek out and see you
my heart a beacon, a spire

Your face worn, head bowed
arms crossed
eyes closed
smothered treasure, hidden fire

Diamond in the rough, I've loved you
it is remarkable, forever, endless

But ever always you turn away
holding loyal to your keen sadness

Parallel lines never meet
but our paths have known each other

You wish not to know me now
but 

I will gladly warm myself
by your dying passion, smoldering

by your past loving and present cruelty

by your complex and unreasoned patterns

by the impossible you
of whom I've always wondered.