by Baraneh Quest

Created on: May 19, 2008   Last Updated: December 28, 2011

Christmas lights and the crisp cut of winter on my cheek
Are here and fleeting and giving me no relief.
I used to love days like these
When I could walk around
knowing I had you to please,
You're gone now.

The smell of pine
so pungent to all,
so bleak to me,
has flooded my mind with memory.
You'd smell the tree, your eyes smiling bright
and I had that feeling,
that sense of purpose, that sense of being in this life,

You're gone now
and I will want you forever.
Now that you're among the stars,
you know that I can't need you forever.
I'll long for you on pine-filled nights
and no-pine nights,
but I can't need you and damn it, I wish I could

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