The Mist between You and me

When I look into the mirror,
I can only see your face.

A smile so angelic and so sincere,
It makes my downed heart ache.

I hear your voice lilting,
When I hear your joyous laugh.

In your presence, I feel whole,
When your absence, my soul is half.

But we let it come between us,
It’s just the mist between you and me.

Because our hearts beat the same,
We’re in love and it’s plain.

But we let it separate us,
Afraid to let our hearts free.

Like smoke it’s between us,
The mist between you and me.

Afraid it’s icy fire,
Weakened by its cutting caress.

Knowing how the other feels,
Feeling it’s surely for the best.

Now it stands between us,
That misty devil’s breath.

I want so much to touch you,
My name whispered on you lips.

You feel it all the same there,
On the other side of the mist.

You stand there so damn strongly,
Indifferent to our pain.

I see myself there so plainly,
I know that you do the same.

I move to wipe the mist away,
And see a twitching of your arm.

There is hope just for a second,
But shared panic has done its harm.

It’s lost now, our nirvana,
Drowned in that hopeless sea.

In all that’s here between us,
That mist between you and me.