Songs of the Mongoose Tribe - 3. Shards of Love - Foster McGuire

Touches like glass,

Smooth and clear, but shatters in seconds.

An innocent question on my lips,

Transferred to yours in a gentle kiss

You didn’t know

You didn’t see,

How much this question meant to me.

Your answer shattered me,

Broke me down to shards of anger,

Shards of bitterness,

Shards of love.

Your answer shattered me,

But you picked up the pieces,

Put me back together,

These shards of love.

Distance like horizons,

Always out of reach, never out of sight,

An innocent craving in my soul,

Connected to yours by longing vision.

You didn’t know,

You didn’t see,

How much this distance meant to me.

Your answer shattered me,

Broke me down to shards of anger,

Shards of bitterness,

Shards of love.

Your answer shattered me,

But you picked up the pieces,

Put me back together,

These shards of love.

Kisses like dreams,

Unspoken desire, the taste of memory,

An impossible future I’d buried,

But it was bursting at the seams,

You couldn’t know,

You couldn’t have seen,

But these kisses mean the world to me.

You once shattered me,

Broke me down to shards of anger,

Shards of bitterness,

Shards of love.

But now your love completes me,

And you’ve picked up the pieces,

Put me back together,

These shards of love.