One Way Love

This masquerade is getting old don't you think
The curtain has fallen as your show is over
Tickets have sold out as you continue to drift away
The crowd has swallowed you whole as you have wandered

One way love is no way to live in this world
So many people thrive to find someone to love them
We grasp at any and all hopes to be loved in return
Yet you think you have it all but you are not even here

The award goes to you as the best actor in this relationship
Seeing you with another guy just opens my eyes to the true reality
I was being taken for granted and I was the fool to believe you
Your bags are packed, how was I to know the story would end like this

One way love is no way to live in this world
Humans have desires and my desires were not in the same league as yours
You had many chances to come to me and be honest as I would have to you
Yet you chose to find a new chapter without even writing out this one

Saying goodbye will be easy now that I see how fast you change
No hope for those who do not want to try and make it in a world so hard
You will see that I can go on without you, no need for tears, am stronger
I don't need a man by my side to make it in this world, am tougher than that

One way love is no way to live in this world
My faith in love has not been destroyed, but my faith in you is gone
I will find my way to a new home, somehow I will be loved in return
All by myself is all I need at this time, so go, time for you to go

Nobody can take my spirit, my soul, my inner love from me
I am my own, I am a survivor and will keep on fighting
because one way love is no way to live in this world.

d.