Excuses & Reasons

I wasn’t looking for excuses to leave;
I was searching for reasons to stay.

You became the old life trying to cleave
while the new life was fading away.

Time stood still at a sunset,
colors would burst from their seams.

Daybreak created space at the onset
of awakening late from these dreams.

Laughter and joy are the echo
traveling through all of the trees.

Fears and the sorrows were let go,
taken like waves of the sea.

Whispers still sound through the pillows,
no matter how muted or far.

Tears fall beneath weeping willows
swaying beneath broken stars.

My soul didn’t know what to pray;
my heart nearly failed to believe.

I was looking for excuses to stay;
I wasn’t searching for reasons to leave.