Ghost Stories

I'll take that as a no
I know how it goes
And I never asked for anything
From any of you
Guess I'll just move on
Same as I've always done
Pretending I never lost
Any of you

Your faces are ghosts
Distorting the walls of my restless mind
A graveyard of hopes
And clandestine calls buried inside

The pictures unseen
Of what might have been
Have withered and died
And lives unlived
And songs unsung
And tears uncried
The stories untold
Are wiped from the page
The ink never dried
Your voices are
A torrent of lies
Besieging my nights

Get on with your lives
Take what you can find
And carry the light
That you never saw in me
To keep you safe at night

Please remember my name
Please remember the day
When you saw my face
As real as it gets
Remember I tried

Never mind
I will be fine
I can fend for myself
And who needs affection anyway?
And who can shine like that without it?