I wouldn’t listen to good advice

Now my heart is paying a price
Because you’re a long time gone
And I’m lost in heartache alone.

Here I am and somewhere you are

And it may as well be on a star,
I have no hint of where you went
And tattered emotions are spent.

You just packed and left one day

No whisper of why did you say,
Lovesick I knocked on your door
But you’d flown the day before.

That was a year or so ago I know

And I’m still fanning loves glow,
The embers of love just won’t die
And teardrops never seem to dry.

thought one day I’d be over you

But you broke my heart in two
And time hasn’t healed my heart,
It won’t mend what’s torn apart.

There is no fool like a fool in love,
That’s what wise sages speak of
And the wise were right I suppose,
I’ve been a fool as everyone knows.

I wait for a letter the mail may bring,
I still listen for the phone to ring,
Though I know I won’t hear from you
I can’t tell my heart what to do.

I may as well try to write on the ocean
As to control my heart’s emotion
And I’ll be able to ride the wild wind
Before I see your face again

Or fester like a sore–
And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over–
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

Did those I loved repose
The Daisy would impel me.
Philip — when bewildered
Bore his riddle in!

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.

But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine

I never really hurt you,
at times I thought it fair.
But you put me down and ridicule
and never seem to care.

I thought that you were different,
that you’d never hurt me.
But now I know the real you,
now it’s the truth I see.

Your intentions were clear all along,
you didn’t hide them well.
I soon found that all you wanted
was to kick me when I fell.

But I am smarter now,
for support I have my friends.
I know for sure next time,
this won’t be how it ends.

These words I told you,
And I meant what I said.
But the fire has died down,
The affection is dead.

“She said it’s over,”
Your best friend told me.
YOU COULDN’T DO IT ON YOUR OWN?
You broke my heart, you see.

The heartbreak was too much,
I won’t be hurt again.
No more late phone calls,
No more girlfriends.

I can’t believe you hurt me.
I thought our love was true…
How could you do this?
WHAT DID I EVER DO TO YOU?

But I’ve lost you forever.
Even as a friend.
And one lesson you’ve taught me,
I’LL NEVER LOVE AGAIN!

You never left me any time
To record the feeling of your touch
Where did the loving ever go
When it all once meant so much

You leave my heart, you steal my soul
And time won’t fill the empty hole
You left in me when you walked out

Just leaving sorrow, pain and doubt
But I’ll go on,
I’ll find another one

Who’ll treasure all that I will be
Who’ll treasure all that I’ve become

So when you leave, don’t take me with you
I couldn’t bare to leave this place
Where all the memories reside
In the beauty of your face

Your love it dripped from your fingertips
With your blind caress
And made my soul sway with sorrow
That it will never be
here again with me

It creeps to me in the cold of night
When my heart has wishes I can’t fulfil
Your arms sweeten the sound of sorrow
But only … only until …

… You leave my heart, you leave my soul
New love will fill the empty hole
You left in me when you walked out
No more sorrow, fear or doubt

But I’ll go on,
Yes I’ve moved on
I’ll find another one
Who’ll treasure all that I will be
Who’ll treasure all that I’ve become

There is one thing that I ask
As you walk away;
Please create a corner in your heart for me
So at least, there, I can always stay.

You will always be my love
That will never change;
Though we are going separate ways
That fact remains the same.

I know we must let each other go
Circumstances force us to set each other free;
But today, I give back to you . . . your words -
Touch Yourself and You Touch Me.