• Winter Runner

    Winter has barely come and I know you're out there.
    Somewhere in the mass of white and crisp cold air,
    I wonder if you're cold or if you're lonely but I know.
    Deep down I know that you aren't alone in the snow.

    You hold her I bet by the hand as soon as I turn away,
    And when you walk on, whisper in her ears that you'll stay.
    I wish that I did not know, that I never saw you smile at her,
    That I was naive, ignorant of this, hoping the world was only a blur.

    When she holds you and touches you do you shiver?
    And when you took my coat with your cold eyes to deliver,
    Did you give it to her to wear so that she would be glad?
    So that my eyes would tear up and inside I'd feel so mad.

    Then I think would I be so broken had I been stronger?
    Maybe my heart would have lasted just a little bit longer.
    It hurts to know what you let happen, that you did nothing.
    I miss the way you hold me and make me feel like something.

    I miss you I hope you know, that I still wear this gold band.
    Maybe if I was better you'd still love me, I wish I wasn't so bland.
    But once I run away from this place and into the snow.
    "I love you, my winter runner," I wrote just so you'd know.

    And I ran into the town where they all watch in pity,
    They know that you leave they feel sad for me who was once witty.
    I go pass the town and they still stare, shaking their heads.
    And I feel my heart breaking tears cutting the sown threads.

    And then I was gone lost in the bittersweet cold of December.
    I know not even how I died, but I love you was the last thing I remember.