Hello Darlin'

Strumming Away With My Heart

You play the guitar just like you play my heart,

strumming away with my feelings.

You say we’re just friends, but little do you know that smile of yours sends me reeling.

I can’t think straight, and I can’t deny you’ve got me thinking

what it’d be like to just be yours, just for the evening.

Would we watch the rain like we did that night, as you kiss me softly and mean it?

Could we fall asleep as you hold me tight, and whisper, “You’re mine, I can’t believe it”?

Take my hand, let’s not waste anymore time. I know that we can make it.

We’ll show the world, you’ll see, just how far we can take this.

They say “love is friendship set on fire”, well baby I believe it.

You Lied.

Thinking about those late nights we stayed up talking about life,
we’d make love and you’d hold me tight.
All those bottles of wine shared and the mornings after,
your silly little grin and that contagious laughter.
Your horrible cooking that I pretended to love,
and the kisses that we couldn’t get enough of.
You let me down and you made me cry,
I thought you were the perfect guy.
You weren’t ready to love me the way I loved you,
there was nothing more that I could do.
There’s someone new, she’s pretty and smart
I wonder if she’ll be the one to get your heart.
Because I never did, as hard as I tried,
you said you’d love me forever, so I guess you lied.

Wishes.

I’ll never forget that day you had to leave. 
Tears in your eyes, dressed in your army green.
I guess I should have been proud,
but I felt all alone in that crowd.
A piece of my heart left with you,
as you whispered “I’ll always love you.”
We both knew that you might not come back,
and that the kisses blown might be our last.
But I just thought “our love will get him through,”
but in the end, it couldn’t save you.
You’re gone,
and now the days are so long.
All I have now is this purple heart, a flag, and your memory
all symbols of your bravery.
But I want you, beside me
with your loving arms around me.
I wish I could have told you before you left, 
what a big secret I had kept.
She’s got your eyes and your smile,
she makes this life worth while.
I wish that she could have met you, 
or could have made your day with an “I love you.”
But wishes don’t come true,
Because I don’t know how many times I’ve wished I didn’t love you. 

Only that Moon.

Sometimes I feel like there’s a hole inside of me, an emptiness that at times seems to burn.

I think if you lifted my heart to your ear, you could probably hear the ocean.

The moon tonight, there’s a circle around it. Sign of trouble not far behind.

I have this dream of being whole. Of not going to sleep each night, wanting.

But still sometimes, when the wind is warm or the crickets sing… I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.

I just want someone to love me.

I want to be seen.

I don’t know. Maybe I had my happiness.

I don’t want to believe it but, there is no man.

Only that moon. 

Late Nights.

I’m up late again thinking of the memories we’ve shared.

I loved you so, but you never cared.

Now you want to start over, you say you’ve changed your ways.

But it’s hard to think of better days,

When all I have are memories of hurt, and the love you seemed to lack.

I gave you my heart, but you failed to give it back.