When My Heart Is Broken

The heart is such a wonderous thing
it suffers all that we can fling
into its depth so wide and deep
all the love and hurt to it`s self it keeps

It grows and swells when we are proud
it shouts and yells way out loud
look this way at this person here
he has a silly smile and a single tear

but love can twist that loving hear
it bounds and leaps when love first starts
and throught the years as young love grows
into the love that we all know

the love that grows when she gives a smile
the love she gives that makes it all worthwhile
the reason why your hearts still beat
the reason when your lips just meet

and now the end of this sorrowfull tale
when love is gone and the marriage fails
when the light of your life is gone for good
then the pain strikes deep as well it should

now 30 years is a long long time
to love and cherish a lady devine
to give your heart and all you had
and then she say`s the loves gone bad

she no longer feels the way you do
and the words alone make you feel so blue
and then she says the words you dread
and now you feel like your heart is dead

the children have grown and fled the nest
and i have given all of my best
but now i feel i must spread my wings
to do as i must,and taste sweet life and wonderful things

these honeyed words fell from her lips
but the tears they fell on my fingertips
and then the heart began to break
it just began as a simple ache

but as she walked out through the door
the pain inside grew more and more
untill at last you think you will die
and all you do is cry and cry

and now you feel as if at best
your heart been ripped from out your chest
you want to cry you want to scream
you hope it is a bad bad dream

and now your sure your heart is broke
as all the tears to the earth do soak
and all you feel is pain,pain,pain
it takes all your will just to remain

now if this story rings a bell
then you have seen the edge of hell
that deep deep pit of deep despair
to nothing in life that can compare

but from the darkness there is a light
that splits the veil of blackest night
it comes from your child,now strong and tall
they give their love and give it all

so day by day on that ladder steep
one step at a time your heart does creep
to the top of the pit and the light that`s there
to the love of the family that you always share

so heed my tale of love`s sad end
these words i write and now do send
to the heart that is in deepest pain
the wound will heal and love again

my heart is scared and battle worn
a little scuffed and slightly torn
but now its empty with nothing in sight
it needs to be filled with love, just right

what it needs is a womans touch
to fill it with love that it needs so much
to fill this empty heart right up
so it drinks once more from the loving cup

so now i search both wide and near
for love and gentleness to appear
for the special lady i do not know
to look for her and let love grow