The eyes of a lover

Thirty years old, alone without care

Looking for love but it’s passing me by

Drinking alone in a nightclub somewhere

She sat down at the bar with a  sigh

Touching my hand she asked me to dancing

To forget all inhibitions in the heat of the night

Heady and sweet, a night for romancing

A one night stand thats lost to daylight

I saw myself in the eyes of that lover

Lost to me in the years that have passed

And found no peace in the arms of another

Sometimes loneliness is a chasm too vast

I walked the streets looking at faces

Asking people with nothing to tell

Searching through unfamiliar places

For the girl I remember so well

In the park, the darkness was falling

I wearily got up from the park bench

I suddenly heard someone calling

I felt my heart give a fearful wrench

In the darkness she stood by the river

Wearing a hooded robe with a cowl

In trepidation I started to shiver

In the distance a mournful howl

She slipped the cowl to show her face

In the eyes of a lover I could see

That this was not her time or place

Some things were not meant to be

“I walk the shade and collect the souls

And deliver these to Deaths door

Tormented to have to play these roles

Loneliness is who I am, I offer no more”

“From time to time I escape my task

To taste fun and life, to feel like you

Hidden behind my human mask

I’m free to love you, as I do

But all is only an illusion

An escape from reality

All things must reach a conclusion

And in the end I am not free”

I reached out to touch her as she started to haze

She gently shook her head

“Our time is not yet, but at the end of your days”

Before dissipating she smiled and said

“I will lead you through the abyss

Where there is an infinity to discover

We will roam in eternal bliss

Together, In the eyes of a lover”