3 June 2012

Funny how we don't want things

Until they're gone,

We think we can do without a little rag

Until it's thrown away.

Not that you're a rag,

How rude of me.

But you've always been there,

In the background

To pick me up

After scraped knees,

Broken wrists,

Crippled feet,

A smashed-up person.

And all that I did

Was wave it off with a thanks.

And now your heart

Belongs to another,

A beautiful other might I add.

You yearn for her

And now I am in the wings

To lovingly gather you up

When you fall down.

Tables turned.

If only for a dream wherein

You should not kiss me

Because then perhaps that dream

Might be reality,

And we can pick each other up,

Eye to eye,

Nose to nose,

Palm to palm,

Lips to lips,

Heart to heart.

In hope it all turns North

Not South.

In hope that after two rambling paths cross

Thy run together to the horizon.

In hope that two,

Who for so long looked upon the other

In distant adoration

Dance together

No longer

Alone.

DelilahNow That You're Gone • Opuss № I