Shadows fill an empty heart as love is fading

Bette’s head whipped around as she saw movement at the corner of her eye, “What was that? Tina? Is that you?”

Bette stared out into the moonlit backyard, it was empty. Her head dropped, “Fuck!” she thought, “why would I even think Tina would be here? It’s not as if she’s going to get back with me. She didn’t even look me in the eye when she told us all that she had broken up with Henry.”

From all the things that we are but are not saying

Looking down at her clasped hands, Bette’s thoughts raced ahead “But I can still feel the love, the way she looks at me when she thinks I’m not looking.”

Can we see beyond the scars
And make it to the dawn?

Bette sighed “Yeah, right. That’s the way she looked at me too, when we were together before she ran into Henry’s arms. That’s what made it hurt so bad.”

Change the colors of the sky
And open up to the ways you made me feel alive

“Yet I still want you back, I would take you back in an instant. No one ever made me feel the way you did, not Candace, not any of those faceless women who I used to fuck around with before meeting you, not even Jodie.”

The ways I loved you, for all the things that never died

“Oh God, Jodie. She knew that I was not over you, that my love for you was never gonna end.”

To make it through the night love will find you

“That’s why she kept fighting with me, struggling to get my attention and perhaps some of my love. I was so tired of it, so so tired.”

What about now? What about today?
What if you’re making me all that I was meant to be?

Bette leaned back into the lounge chair, looking up at the stars “Should I tell you? Should I not?”

What if our love never went away?
What if it’s lost behind words we could never find?

“Would it make a difference? Do you actually still care? I’ve never been one to open up, and the most I’ve ever opened was when I was with you. I used to feel safe enough to tell you everything, but now I’m scared. I’m fucking terrified.”