In Love with Pain

Because sometimes the only way to feel
Is through pain
The only way to understand the other
Is by pact of blood...
By wounds which won't heal.

I'd like to reach out to you...but i can't.
Because of who we are, and what we know
And how our passions are too strong for each other

And yet i understand you.
How you long.
How the pain twists your heart
Making you never want to feel again
But it comes anyway

Because we feel too much...
And sometimes you shut yourself out
From the world
Even from yourself

We expect people to love us the way we love them
But they never will...
Our common folly...our common misery... our doomed fate
It makes us cruel... selfish
Attempting to defend ourselves against the pain.

We deny ourselves the right to happiness
Knowing that nothing too good can last
Because experience has taught us
That it never has...

And that is our misfortune
That we have a heart that can bleed
For others who can never feel our pain.