SMILING TEARS

Tell me how to fall out of love with you
For it is what I must now try to do
You have for me done so many things
Now please show me how to do this too
 
Show me how to feel that simple magic
In another man’s thought or presence
And how to remain completely mesmerized
By another’s words that lacks your resonance

 You have now found “you” for yourself
So guide me to find that “me” within
Where I would not need nor yearn for you
And just be content to let friendship win

 I tried before, perhaps I should try again
To stop loving you, for you want it that way
Open spaces is all that you now need
And I want to be held till the end of my days

 With tears in my eyes that flow freely
I try wear a smile radiant bright and wide
I weep that I shall never know of your love
But try rejoice that as a friend you stand besides…