One More Word

We stand at the jagged cliff
of a future broken down
The doorknob in your hand
And you won’t turn around
You left my necklace on the desk
My heart upon the floor
The butterflies in my empty chest
Shake me to the core

Just one more word
To turn you back around
One more word
But I can’t make a sound
One more word
The one that you might hear
I need to find the word
To take away this fear
To bring us closer near
To convince you to stay here… with me.

Your silhouette burns in my mind
Standing in the door
Your azure eyes turned away
To fall on me no more
I’ve tried so hard to hear your thoughts
But understood too late
If I only knew my crime
That caused you so much hate

Just one more word
To turn you back around
One more word
But I can’t make a sound
One more word
The one that you might hear
I need to find the word
To take away this fear
To bring us closer near
To convince you to stay here… with me.

I plead, I bleed, I need a way
To find the perfect words to say
To make you pause, to change your choice
I scream inside but have no voice
At least nothing that you’ll hear…
As I disappear… from you.

I’d fight the sun, push back the sea
If only you would wait
I’d search the stars relentlessly
To find and fix our fate
But you left me so long ago
And I’m just finding out
Your armor up, your feelings gone
My words have all run out.

Not one word
Can turn you back around
Not one word
Will change where you are bound
Not one word
Will fall upon deaf ears
There isn’t any word
To make you see it clear
How much I love you dear
To convince you to stay here…