you're dead to me

I must accept but cant what cannot be.

I see you and my heart dissolves in pain.
You are not dead, but you are dead to me.
What happened to our loves a mystery.

I rummage through our empty past in vain.
I must accept but cant what cannot be:
That someone else now shares your off-hand we,
Now feels your tender tongue all feeling drain . . .

You are not dead, but you are dead to me.
I cannot lay aside my agony:
Again, again, I play the same refrain.
I must accept but cant what cannot be.

And yet I know this tortured ecstasy
Is just my way of holding you again.
You are not dead, but you are dead to me,

And still I cannot bear to set you free,
That of our love some remnant might remain.
I must accept but cant what cannot be.
You are not dead, but you are dead to me.