In Soft Places
My heart is not the stone I let you see
There are still soft places for you inside of me
I’ve hushed them like the crying
Of a child who cannot sleep
I’ve cradled them within my heart
While I feel that heart weep
Because the truth has risen clearly like the sun
The love was real, but you and I are done
And you keep saying you are the man I knew
But each day dawns, and I see it isn’t true
No proof but words that disappear into the night
It’s no comfort to know that they were right
When I believed in you with all of my soul
But I know that belief can’t ever make this whole
And it won’t make you the man you said you’d be
When you said you meant the words you spoke to me
No deity petitioned will ease this ache
Or make you the man I thought, for my sake
To return the things you wrecked and make them right
No, there’s no genie I can call upon this night
Softness is encased inside a heart of stone
I’m not afraid of living this life alone
I can live through love and survive to tell the tale
In fact, you know I’ve done this before and done it well
But I cannot believe what was never true
So I let go of the love I’ve held for you
And in those soft places I plant a different seed
The kind that will grow into the life I need
Made richer by the lessons learned through tears
The time without you and without those fears
I’ll tend to the softness throughout the pain
And remember every garden needs its turn of rain.
