Torn

Put you in my box of memories

High up on the shelf

Put you with the dusty volumes

Of my long forgotten past

Put you out of my mind

With all your love and hope and hurt

Put you out of my heart

Where you always came in first

 Is that what you want?

To join the ghosts that haunt my past?

Just one more friendship that didn’t last?

Around my neck I wear the key

The only one that seals the box

I filled with all I thought would be

But each time I go to fasten the lock

My heart shrinks back

For once it’s closed

There’s no returning

And so I stand here

Torn in two

Between the love I feel for you

And what you last asked me to do