lovely pain

how is it everything leads back to you
and all my thoughts collide here in my head
i struggle to dismiss what’s all too true
and long to think of something else instead

but sweet contentment is by you defined
and in my dreams you are my one retreat
awake or sleeping my heart always finds
to free myself of you an empty feat

my giving in will not remove this pain
and waking takes me not from your sweet voice
but mastery of my mind i must regain
with all my heart at stake i have no choice

how can i let you have such sole command
of that you do not know is in your hand

s littlehale