A Poem For Byzantium

Unbidden shadows of you formed yesterday
 I ran away to a room here on the bay
 Interrupted life again, another new beginning
 Where the silence echoes you're no longer with me
 Here and now, I feel that I'm embracing freedom
 Even though I may be alone, but that's okay
 Through the darkness I would walk in the streets
 Confessions never seemed to provide me with a release
 Held me down and tried to cure me tried to give me reason
 But nothing could separate this burdened mind from me
 Here and now, I feel that I'm embracing freedom
 Even though I may be alone, but that's okay
 And looking out to a different sky will disengage me
 Absence is never the answer, I know, but it serves as my shade
 I do not seek and do not intend to find
 A calmer ocean or a sun that never will rise
 My world will never change and time will bring you to my thoughts, and
 I'll move on and then forget you all over again
 Moving on, I can forgive you all over again
 Here and now, I feel that I'm embracing freedom
 Even though I may be alone, but that's ok
 And looking out onto a different sky it seems so easy
 Absence is never the answer, I know, but it serves as my shade