Love Poem: Chasing Cars 3

Chasing Cars 3

Chasing Cars 3


You can drown in smoke
In huge breaths
Sucked in on the choke 

Of ever wishing air

And you can lay yourself bare
Your soul on the concrete
Spread before the stare 

Of every loving heart

Its not that I see
Not the pain in me
Not the hammer that crashes me constantly

Into you

This mirror I hold
Everything I do know
Turns the reflection of your eyes always

Into mine

Can you see
How you break me 
Shatter me into the rainbows

Of the every word of love  

“All that I am
“All that I ever was
“Is laying in your perfect eyes
“And they’re all I can see

If you feel lost
Then I wander in the same step
My feet can’t find a single path

Not without you

And though I hold true
Stronger by the gift of you
Still I huddle in the same corner 


Contemplating the worst of me
How can this really be me
It just falls out of me

Into a pool of tears

“And if I lay there
“If I just lay there
“Would you lay with me
“And just forget the world 

Would you hold on to me
The desperate strength you need to be
And turn with me

Out to face the world

Has this cut me as far as you know
These gouges deep in my soul
Bleed out their martyrdom

Just for you

It shakes me to the core of who I am
As I stand here in the darkness
And reach out my hand

To you

“All that I am
“All that I ever was
“Is laying in your perfect eyes
“And they’re all I can see






Stanzas six, ten and fourteen taken from “Chasing Cars” 
By Snow Patrol
With much respect and many thanks