Moving On

You said you’d always love me

That I was something else

That no other lady had held your heart as well

A silly trusting fool

I believed that it was true until you left

And each day that wanders by recalls your warming smile

I tell myself we weren’t meant to be

But truth be told you had my soul

And I’m forever changed because you loved me

And here I am, imagining

That soon you’ll be replaced

I’ll take him in, or he’ll take me

Quickly we’ll escape

And then my heart will heal accordingly

But when that rebound’s over

The shimmer of its spell is broken…

I’ll be forced to fall into step just like before

Adjust again

I want to trust again

I want to know it’s not a lie to be adored

The blowing winds have changed your mind

And the stories that you tell

Your every season brings its lies

And some truths with it as well

My only hope is that you come to finally understand your fate

That whomever’s heart you handle next

Won’t suffer your mistakes

I know that I still love you

And that it hurts to say aloud

All the ways in which I’d adjust our love

If I could just do it over somehow

But there’s nothing I could ever do

To slow the Earth and get my way

Times are changing

And I, too, must change to keep the pace

-- every person I know I take in another person as part of me --

Feb 23rd. -<3-