She's Gone

She laughs
Tossing her head back
With her hair shining gold
Wrapping her arms around his neck
(Which is as thick as her slim waist)
While she smiles her smile
Whispering softly in his ear.

He looks on
As she breaks his heart
With every move
Every word
Every breath
He remembers when she'd been his
Not belonging to someone
Who was so much more
Than he could ever be.

He'd had her and he'd lost her
She was the best he'd ever have
But he lost his temper
Glaring into her innocent, beautiful brown eyes
Yelling at her, gripping her wrists
Leaving marks on her velvet-soft, tan skin
All because she'd come to school sick
Now, looking back
He knows that it wasn't worth losing her.
Nothing's worth losing her.

But there she stands
In someone else's arms - happy
He knows she'd lost the light in her dark eyes
The fire in her perfect heart had dimmed
The spirit that made her free was captured
More beautiful, but more sad
Than a butterfly in a net
While she'd been with him.

And watching her with another
He saw that once-familiar spark
The light in her honest brown eyes
The fire in her gentle, kind heart
The spirit that made her free
She was more beautiful, and happier
Than a butterfly just freed from a net
But she wasn't with him.

Watching her with him
He thinks of what it was like
To hold her
Like holding a secret treasure
To look into her eyes
Like getting lost and never wanting to be found
To touch her
Like touching soft, breeze-dried cotton
To kiss her
Like his lips touching cool spring water
To love her
Like his heart was so full it could break
To be loved by her
Like having everything in the world.

He turns away with a sigh
Missing her more and more each passing day
But leaving her with another
As long as she's happy with him
He'll keep his feelings inside
Though they're slowly killing him
And try to forget, though he knows it's no use
He'll never really let her go
But no matter what
She's gone.