How can I love you

I don't know you anymore

Everything's different now

But I keep seeing reflexions

Of a past long lost to us

When your eyes gain a spark

For a fleeting moment

Blink it's gone again

Or when you call me

As you used to before

Then pretend nothing happened

When you smile so bright

Full of teeth white as pearls

And distant stars are cradled

In the palm of your hand

I wonder how can it be

That those hands

Can cause so much hurt

Yet be so gentle

How can you say

You hate me with passion

Then passionately make love to me

Be the water in a desert

And then drown me like unforgiving sea

When I look at you

I can see the shadow

Of who you once were

And what you were capable of being

But the you that stands before me

Is someone I fail to recognise

Like a wolf wearing sheep's skin

You look the same as always

Full of grace your beauty is like no other's

But through your eyes I can see

The dark anger jealousy and hate inside

But what I grieve the most

Is the hurt I put you through

That made you like this

And I know I can't take it back

So I let you take me instead

I was ready for the pain

I wanted to be hurt by you

I needed to feel what you feel

But you've only been gentle

Pampering me giving me affection

Which we both craved all our lives

On only one condition

That I'll be yours till the end

That this time I stay

Now I know we've always felt the same