Every Grieving Piece

What I would say to you now

Wounds are not simply healed by time

They are viciously cauterized

The pain of a face found absent in crowded rooms

Pleading whispers for another shared word

The pieces of you left in the empty moments

The only pieces, let me have them for just another while

A desperate, panicked grief

Clinging to every image like a

Broken voice crying out to vanishing taillights

"Come back, don't leave

Please stay, please stay, please stay"

Nostalgia, only the ghost of failure

For the breathless hurt I laid

To rest with you

Removing the fragments of mourning

With each surviving day

Losing the elusive memory

Like a stranger going into a crowd

And all I have

Is the hope that you know

I'm still scanning the room, still listening

For you in between

In between the chords

Don't go, please stay

Don't go, please stay

Don't go, please stay

Don't go, please stay

Don't go (Don't go)

Please stay (Please stay)

Don't go (Don't go)

Please stay