The Peace of Stillness

           The Peace of Stillness

In the peace of stillness
With arms to hold her tight
Doesn’t matter if he means it
See it’s only for tonight

She puts on the dress and make up
Brushes her long hair
Hoping that for a moment
She’ll get lost inside his stare

The passion is sweet sorrow
Sweet because it’s there
The sorrow comes when she’s alone again
Knowing no one truly cares

Her skin is chafed and muscles sore
It’s a pain she holds so dearly
But her hearts still in a million pieces
This didn’t fix it nearly

She locks the pain inside herself
Rarely lets it show
When it comes out of the darkness
She is filled with yearn and woe

Not for any man she feels it
It’s for herself you see
The wide eyed girl with hopes and dreams
She’ll never again be

Men love her for her body
Yet seldom ever see
Inside the peace of stillness
Where that girl, she’s still set free

They only see her flesh
Not the person that’s inside
The sweet and loving funny girl
The one that’s full of pride

She takes what she is offered
Those tiny scraps of time
And she gives him everything he needs
While she dies more inside

The woman’s been so broken
With no clue how to rise
She bides her time and prays one day
To see love in someone’s eyes

Although it’s quite unlikely
For this woman to be loved
It’s all she really wants in life
Just one time before she dies

So In the peace of stillness
She remembers and she cries
And grieves the girl that could’ve been
Were she loved from someone’s eyes