Who says I have to deal with your pain?

Your hurt?

Your anger?

Your insecurity?

Who says I have to take all your hate?

Your sadness?

Your fear?

Your grief?

I have my own pain.

My own hurt.

My own sadness.

My own baggage.

I already have the weight of the world on my shoulders

I don't need the weight of yours. 

A small smile plays at your lips

When you catch my gaze

The same smile I get

When I think of you.

A single touch

Seemingly so innocent 

Electrifies my very being

does it do the same to you?

Looking in the mirror

Seeing a better version of me

People come to talk to us

But its not me they've come to see

My other half 

But together feels like a burden.

Always the lesser of the two,

But sometimes I'm the better one.

Why is it so hard

To say what I want to say to you?

I'm afraid I can't say

What keeps me from saying

What you mean to me.

But I hope someday

I'll learn to say

What I need to. 

Fighting the feelings I cannot explain or hide

Fighting to keep my head and heart aligned

Reading too deep into the situation

Reading between the lines of our conversations

Searching for the answers to questions in the back of my mind

Searching for affection in your eyes

Hiding behind a falsely confident smile

Hiding behind a lie all the while

Knowing that none of this is really there

Knowing that I can't help but care.

You're in my thoughts from break of day

And the reason, I cannot tell

For your closeness feels so far away

Despite the disappointing words I've heard you say

Or the times your anger's swelled

You're still in my thoughts from break of day.

Like the distance from Heaven, to which I pray,

To your heart, in it's protective shell

For your closeness feels so far away.

All the times I've tried to forgive your ways

All the times I've tried to call

Are in my thoughts from break of day.

But the love, these faults cannot outweigh

A love I miss with no parallel

For your closeness feels so far away.

For from my heart you never stray

And in my mind you'll forever dwell

You are in my thoughts from break of day

Though your closeness feels so far away.