Prince Writing Challenge 2016

Thieves In The Temple

Love if you’re there come save me, from all this cold despair. I can hang when u’re around, but I’ll surely die, if u’re not there. For every step toward you, it feels like someone is standing in my path, dragging me further back down. You are the one that speaks to my soul and takes me so far away from the loneliness that has become my constant companion. Do they know? Is it possible that they see that you are the light that I cling to?

I need you, need to be near you to stop me from drowning in this tomb of isolation. I long for you to fill me with hope again and pull me through. Love can you hear me? Can you sense the desperation that pulses through my entire being at the thought of another day without you? They are coming closer, preventing me from embracing your light, plunging me back into darkness. Where are you, Love? You promised you would always be there for me. Don’t let them take me from you! Don’t let them steal it all away too soon.

Darkness settles over me, filtering into my soul, pulling me down into its shadowy depths. There is no one for me to turn to, no escape. I feel their feet trampling over me, clawing at my limbs as a searing pain grips my heart. My strength is fading, each beat of my heart slowing as I sink deeper down. Oh, Love, why did you desert me?

WC: 253

"Thieves In The Temple"

Love come quick
Love come in a hurry
There are thieves in the temple tonight

They don't care where they kick
Just as long as they hurt u
There are thieves in the temple tonight

Love if u're there come save me
From all this cold despair
I can hang when u're around
But I'll surely die
If u're not there

Love come quick
Love come in a hurry
There are thieves in the temple tonight

I feel like I'm looking for my soul (Soul)
Like a poor man looking for gold (Gold)
There are thieves in the temple tonight

Voices from the sky say rely on your best friend to pull u through
But even if I wanted 2 I couldn't really truely 'cause my only friend is u

Come on

There are thieves in the temple tonight

Kicking me in my heart, tearing me all apart
(Tearing me, tearing me, tearing me all apart)
'Cause me and u could have been a work of art
Thieves in the temple

Baby don't u know I'm holding on
The best that I can
Love please help me be
The better man

Better than the thieves in the temple
In the temple tonight

Oh, thieves in the temple (Tonight) tonight
Hurt me

Love come quick
Love come in a hurry
There are thieves in the temple tonight

Thieves in the temple

U said u loved me! (Thieves in the temple)
U said I was your friend! (Thieves in the temple)
U were supposed to take care of me! (Love come quick) {Thieves in the temple}
U lie! Love come (Lie!) in a hurry (Lie!)

Thieves in the temple tonight