Always Be My Baby
We were as one babe,
For a moment in time,
And it seemed everlasting that you'll always be mine,
But you want to be free,
So I let you fly,
Cause I know in my heart babe, that our love will never die no....
Those were the words that have been ringing in my head for the past two weeks. They ring non-stop; when I eat, when I'm awake, when I'm with friends and family. Even the mercy of sleep or death did not spare me from this torment; every night I would dream of it...dream of HER, and awake with a sudden jolt, cold sweat dripping from my body even with the air conditioner turn on. They say that the way to make a man suffer is never by physical means, but rather attack his heart and his emotions, and boy am I feeling the effects right now.
These past 2 weeks has been one of the saddest chapters of my life and I did not have any respite from the heartache after heartache that was thrown at me. Oh, where did it all go wrong? Where did it all start to unravel? How could this happen to me? It seems like gold for one second and the next, it was just an illusion. Gold turned to dust....blown away by a black wind so cold it froze the heart and severed the bond that once held us both so tightly.
I can remember it so clearly like it was yesterday...Christmas Eve...one week of absence and suddenly...this. It never showed nor gave any warnings, and although I read the signs clearly I never took any action for it, out of TRUST...out of LOVE...and it was both these two I upheld so tightly that I was betrayed. The pain a man felt when the person he loved most in his life betrayed him...he would have gladly chose death over the sufferings if he was that honorable. It did not help with the fact too that it happened during an eventful moment; the coming of a new year...the birth of new hopes and dreams...hopes and dreams I had wanted to share with her...and it was on the eve of the new year did she choose to break the news to me.
The withdrawal symptoms that followed from these events were overwhelming. For once, I felt an extremely vast void in my heart, an emptiness so deep that there was no bottom, a darkness so dark even the brightest of light could never pierce through. I felt like a thousand needles piercing my heart, and the Devil at the bottom of it licking through my wounds and laughing at my torment. The heartbreak that your girlfriend would leave you for another person...it's something too much to bear for some people if they had really loved her and cherished her in the past. And the heartbreak was devastating for me. Even now from the following weeks, after effort after effort and talk after talk to try and win her back, she was relentless and adamant in her decision. The fact that I cried buckets and buckets of tears for her forgiveness and that one chance to fix our relationship fell on deaf ears. And seeing the sight of her in another man's arms made me sick to the stomach and I bled even more. My darling, from the warmest angel in my life has turned into a cold-blooded reptile, only there to pour scorn on my feelings and make me feel worthless in spirit and heart.
But yet, from the back of my head, the songs still rings. Whether it rings of David Cook or Mariah Carey did not matter. The voice and song of hope and faith stays on. The faith that if you truly love somebody, she would return to you someday and even God did say that love is patient. Many has cautioned that it was foolish to wait on the gift of the immortals but it would be worth the wait. The promises that I made I intend to keep. Forever means forever...and I am a man of my word. So here I am, writing this for my darling with the song still playing in the background of my computer...
That you'll always be a part of me,
I'm part of you indefinitely,
Girl don't you know that you can't escape me,
Oh darling, cause you'll always be my baby,
And we'll linger on,
Time can't erase a feeling this strong,
No way you ever gonna shake me,
Oh darling cause you'll always be my baby.
Dedicated to my ex-girlfriend Eunice Khor. May you always have happiness in your life and I want you know that you'll always be my baby...and that I'll love you no matter what happens. Sorry too for the wrongs that I have done to you, and know that I've always forgave you for the wrongs you did to me. Your's truly...Bryan.
