My own voice

So the love that you promise is timeless
but my time seems to come to an end,
though I'd rather be wrong than be breaking your heart
still, I want you to smile, not pretend.

And the words I had saved for tomorrow
have been spent all at once to explain
what I feel, what I fear, what you don't understand,
when it seems we have nothing to gain.

Now, together we'll find some forgiveness
but alone I keep losing my pace,
and the space I had kept for my hopes and my dreams
has been used all at once by your face.

And your love may have taken me over
but your absence is giving me choice,
when there's no one around to protect me from pain,
in the silence I'll find my own voice.