apart and alone--song lyrics

apart and alone
too far from my home
I would hope for just a spark
from you here in the dark
it feels as if you're near
your voice comes through so clear
as if our minds could speak
through time's eternal streak
as if desire were just a telephone

apart and alone
my empty heart groans
for your sweet and gentle touch
I'm hoping for too much
for you to comfort me
your face I wish to see
but memory is fading fast
desire is all that lasts
though space and circumstance could not atone

I surrender to loss
aware of folly's cost
that heartache could belie
I wish that I could try
to make more than thoughts
and wishes corporeal
in bitter hope for trust
to be revealed

apart and alone
my simple mind a crone
as if life were on hold
in empty space so cold
my hope is hard to keep
in wakeful dreaming sleep
love's ghost walks down the halls
and tears at vacant walls
for our past sins to confess with a groan
so we can be no longer apart and alone

©2006 Cynth Bage