Zara Denette - I Cannot

If I cannot be with you,
If our souls remain apart,
I will die a lonely death
With a shattered, empty heart.

If I cannot be your love,
If my pain must stay intact,
I will think of only you
And what my lost life lacked.

Zara Denette

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