Bereft

 

It's hard to breathe with half a heart

The pain alone can kill 

What starts with tearing asunder

Results in agony and woe distilled

Half my heart resides elsewhere

You've taken it away

The pair of us are both bereft

But close to me you will not stay

Until you return to me, my love

I sit and wait and sigh

Above all that I pray that you

Return to me before I die

Charm To Rejoin & Tear Asunder

Bring together what was stretched too far
     Whether by train or plane or car
Give strength and knowledge to get the job done
     The first step is over but the game's just begun
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Send knowledge of future, of justice, outcome
     To the one who left tasks empty and undone
Will power is needed and a strong steady friend
      To help them acknowledge that this is the end
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Two parties, opposite in goals and in means
     Their lifestyle seems idyllic almost sanguine
It's only a façade, behind a closed door
     Any time together feels like a bore
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First, bring to her what she sees in herself
     Power and glory, wisdom and wealth 

Follow the song of the muse that she hears
     No longer chased by that what she fears

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Then for him, growing patiently older,
       His request is the one that is the bolder
He must go to the point where they meet
     Follow his heart to the echoing beat
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More Perfect Union

I can never be the better person

Remember that, love

When you are in your cups

In your grey hair

Hating me

As men grow to hate their wives

Time can’t stand

Something to last

Longer than it

Heaven forbade it

This more perfect union

A joining of souls

Better left asunder

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