Overcome

I've spent all this time looking for all the right things
only ever coming home with empty hands
bruised skipping heart beats
tear drop rivers
I'm not ready for another broken heart
or another lifetime spent picking up the pieces
of everything I thought was all I'd ever need

then you speak...so sweet
honey breath smoothing away all the ghosts of my past

Some days I'm nothing more than a scared little girl
clutching love tightly in my hands
afraid to let it go
to feel
to breathe again
an age ending battle within myself

and your soft sigh in a quiet moment
pulls the clasped fist fingers apart
and away
and I'm letting go

I want to fly away on this dream of you and I
will you fly with me
take my hand and never let go
never let me fall too far
before you are lifting me back up to the stars
I would pull out of the sky and name
all for you

touch my face and make me feel alive again
wrap me in your perfection
so I can feel perfect too
like this is something I finally deserve to have
after all the false starts
and wasted dreams

Will you stand beside me even when I fail
or fall short of the expectation you have for me
because I am only human
and sometimes still torn apart by those things I can't change

light my world with twinkling eye smiles
feather soft kisses at midnight
heated passion moments on stifling summer nights
hold me like this is all we'll ever need
help me believe in love like you see it
and not through these jaded eyes so afraid of breaking

everything rests in who you are
just maybe the right thing at the right time
and I'm not returning empty handed this time
you are the answer
cry and smile the same

and as your beauty washes away the past
and your love invites the future
I am overcome