Tell me how…

A love so sweet and promising

Can suddenly be so smothering

Tell me why…

Something sublime as this feeling

Can suddenly be maddening

There was an empty space

You splendidly filled

Somehow I got too wrapped up

On the kind of love you’re giving

Too mesmerized to even know who I am

Tell me then…

If this is true love

Or are we just faking it?

Years have gone by

Like a flash in my eyes

And we still cling to this cruel love

We consciously put up with

But every time a teardrop falls

The higher the stake we make

And the more our hearts break

Still we hang on

To our masochistic desires

To this cruel love we cling

Like a moth on a passionate flame

We linger by…