Call me love

I'm throwing up my hands. 
I don't want this war
Don't let me leave
Stop. 
I'm throwing up my hands. 
Waving the White Flag
Stop 
Please
I'm throwing up my hands
But you were already long gone. 
You used to taste like love
Left out in the cold too long, 
A beating heart 
Murmuring its way to death 
The last glimpse of me in your iris, 
Shoulders rolled in
Feet turned away
Were you really there?
I miss you 
Never covered the years that got lost behind 

Still a stranger in familiar crowds 
Moving through cities 
that don't know my name 
But you can call me love 
I'm the forgotten 
Just like her. 

You were the reason

This city and I share a heart,
Your absence forever wandering through the streets 
Silence follows me around without footsteps 
Forgiven, all human sins. 
Except our love story
Heaviness holding my tongue down 
Do words give my missing you away? 
The empty spaces,
Shroud my despair in a solar-powered smile, 
Praying on Temple steps 
To a God, I cannot find 
To please keep you safe. 
Still looking up at the sky 
Knowing that it holds a roof over your head. 
Pushing the world back
With the strength you gave me
Let me find the love
I loved you with 
A reason to be alive 
Stitch it piece by piece back in me 
Reveling in the beautiful colors of this broken mosaic of light. 
Let me find the love that I loved you with 
For my own mortal time.