Graveyard Coffeehouse

One Kiss Shy Of Paradise

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In the Darkness
Everything is so close
So far
There are shadows
Ghosts
Phantoms
You and I
Wishing on a star.

All the talk
Means
Nothing
Just words
In the end
A legend
That never
Becomes flesh and bone.

A lost spirit
Without a home
Wandering
The twisted
Winding road
Paved with good intentions.

We can sigh
Laugh
Cry
And move on
But we will never
Know
What might have been.

We were one kiss
Shy of paradise
You and I
One touch of our lips
From forever
It has escaped us
My darling
Like I feared it would.

Now I can
But look at the heavens
And dream
Dream of what tomorrow
Might have looked like
Feeling for
An evanescent moment
The paradise
That like sand
Drifted through my fingers
Yet again.

One kiss shy
My darling
Paradise
Dies
Screaming
And haunts me
In the Night
One kiss shy
Of eternity
My Love
Why?
Why?

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