I spent the years away from you, and you away from me

In places far and far away that you will never see

For you I've travelled all the earth that's underneath the sky

But I could never hope to reach the places more than high

I thought I'd find you there when death would reunite our love

For oft your eyes remind me of the heavens far above

Then I came home and I discovered that your love for me

Was nothing more than petty greed, to my own misery

I always think of blue eyes when I oft remember you

For love I've ever wanted is most radiant in their hue

I never thought to see behind the glimmer of your eyes

Else I'd have glimpsed the shadows in my visions of its skies.

I've chained my love within your own away from sorrow's cold

For I did trust the love that your blue eyes have always told

But now I find it buried in the graveyard of your heart

Along with all the love you never cherished from the start.

If forever was the time it took the light to leave

Then forever is the time before I'll ever grieve

I rue the day I placed my love forever in your keep

Behind blue eyes forever closed in deep eternal sleep.

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