Heart Devoid of Detail

You turn from your love to face the world and all its many thrills

You're sure that its here that you'll find what you need, someone to pay the bills

It's not that its dead or the answers he said, it's a cup that never fills

And he treated you right when he said he would write but you never pick up the mail

You can't slip left the fog lift, you've left behind a trail

You've written the pain and there it remains, a heart devoid of detail

The morning withers, the sun it shivers, to think of where you've slept

Your mind is reeling to seize the feeling, your heart has all but left

And there beside you, lying quiet, the promise that you kept