I See You in My Painting

Watch you take note of your shadow on the wall

Amazed that you seize upon the subtlety of it all

Silhouette in a freeze frame that stands on stall

I see you in my painting, there, down the hall

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Stubborn streak runs strong, you resist when I call

Discriminate bond of mutual care no regrets to recall

Blackest eyes seeking mine snap catch me if I fall

I see you in my painting, there, down the hall

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My prayers failed to stop the direction of the squall

If love could have saved you, no task was too tall

No negate for my grief, no words I can scrawl

I see you in my painting, there, down the hall

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Mornings I expect to find you shaking off dreams loll

Listen for the sigh of your sound sleep come nightfall

Fight your brutal absence in the days tearful brawl

I see you in my painting, where you live down the hall

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Gathering the whole of it caught in the moments drawl

Time ran too fast while the sun cast shadows small

But love remains too large to be swallowed by the pall

I see you in my painting where your love lights my hall

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