I've tasted tears like these before And they are the saddest I have known Their simple is none but one of joy For now it seems I may not be Upon this earth as I have 'til now A truly unexpected of fate For I had given up on myself, and thought it late Too for any soul to cast a line His would hit the ice and snap in two But someone blew a and with his breath Unfroze what ne'er a roaring fire do An now is mine and from the start I knew that I was to let him in But while I I weep because I know That something ends so this can begin God, what a am I, or am I wise? For years have I kept in my heart The name of one who had been more But I wrote about and set apart From other men, though never did I My feelings, nay, but him as a muse An inspiration, something to But rarely did I on what I'd lose If my affections were replaced By someone living, breathing, and real For while I pledged my life to him in The same for me I he did not feel If I could the truth, I'd say I planned To go on in this for all time I care he couldn't care for me As long as I could own him in rhyme And someone to think about each night When after torment wracked my soul To writhe in sorrow, bathe in delight To my pages was my only goal Until the day I to call it love For this was the only I had known And somehow I keep the rest away For in my mind I was alone And being thus in love, though a specter, I did expect, nor wish, nor care To take another in holy place Though in my mind I no one was there Yay, in my mind, but not so in my I loved, I I loved, else why this pain When of my I opened up the door And swept the space where I hed remain And something dies within me as I As something new is born in tear years of memories I long to keep A future I both long for and fear There really was no question when it This shooting star, fire and gentleness Who never me time to make my choice But made my will his own each caress For and only once I did not think Where I feel and for that I was proud But it was one thing to the part And something else to say the word For once I had, I felt a fade Which over me had for all these years And no true loss in all the could match The sense of someone passing with my I hadn't 'til then how lost I was in this mist of my design So much of me my had thus become in my eyes no star was seen to shine Unless it bore some of my phantom's Or strains of music in the beams Until my was open to the view No man could enter, in my dreams Its now and I am not afraid I know full well I am meant to do But at night when I recall my muse I cry for us as though he knew That I had years to hear my name Once spoken as it should have been Id wait there but someone real appeared And stole the heart no man hope to win If to my muse I'd ever hello It might not hurt this much to say But is something tragic in this scene Which may as joyous to the eye Of who witnesses myself Bound in the arms and of my new friend Completed in a way I've never And healing I thought would never mend The truth that shattered my The soul I but never thought Id meet And now I look back except in dreams Yet when I do the is always sweet For pain can show me who I was And from that girl to me how Ive grown Ive tasted tears like these before And yes, are the saddest I have known