Only A Soul

We have promised only our souls to each other, It souldn't be surprising that I wake up from your nightmares and you daydream of my future, That you can hear my tears fall and I can feel your heart breaking, But the outsiders, they look at us in awe and I wonder, "Don't they know?" "Don't they know that we're tied by the burdens we've exchanged?"

I have built myself into your confessional, and you into mine, You take my cries and drown them in all the novel ways you find to support me, And so we have made sadness the neighbor we pretend we can't hear the door knock's of,

Some days when the cold comes to visit as it does unfailingly, I search between the gaps of your words for a sound that triggers a familiar pain, For a reason to wage war with my weapon pointed at both of us, For a reason to doubt this too-good thing we've built, You look at me with recognition, And you tell me that here, in our home, we don't look for things that don't exist,

We have promised only our souls to each other, Only our souls....and nothing more.