The Definition of True Beauty

I wish to steal you away

from reality;

pause the world for just a day.

I wish to take you in my arms

like when we were kids.

When it actually felt like time was paused.

And we lived like we had stolen time.

You and I committed that crime.

But soon we were caught.

and they made us give it up.

We swore we wouldn't give up, because it meant so much.

and they made us pay.

Then years went by and we learned our lesson.

Forever paying for our childish obsession.

Of love.

And now we know the truth.

The truth we didn't want to believe in our youth.

Now we are damaged, look what they did to us.

Scared to fall, terrified to trust.

So we built up these walls,

tightened the hold,

clenched our fists,

afraid to unfold.

A love turned beastly,

but was it "them" who demolished it?

I'm not even sure there was a "them"

We fucked it up all on our own

and blamed it on time and miles of road.

But miles of regrets come crashing in.

Into my heart, and it makes me sing..

Of love

or what has become of love.

All hatred aside,

I still hold you above.

We should have fought for us.

We took it away from our very own selves.

Punishing you, punishing me,

we did that, that's the reality.

This pain, we feel in our throats and in our chests,

weighed down by pounds of regrets.

And to just forget all that, forget our past,

would be oh so simple..

If I didn't look back, if I didn't digress..

On every inch of that love, every moment we had.

You can forget, but I sure cannot.

because now I see what has become of us.

now I see what we were meant to be.

The definition of true beauty, you and me.