WHAT’S WRONG WITH ME?

The years are passing me by

And another relationship has failed

What is wrong with me?

Why has this love affair derailed?

 

Why can I not hold onto love?

What kind of signal do I transmit?

What makes me so difficult to love?

I cannot put my finger on it

 

So, I must move onto pastures new

Looking for the most elusive pray

Wishing for better luck this time around

And that I will strike gold one day

 

Surely it is not too much to ask

That my love be returned in kind

I won’t give up the search

I’ll keep looking and see what I find

 

I just have to keep believing

Keep the faith and I will soon see

The next one that I can love

And hope that they will love me 

ONE WAY TRAFFIC

 

Why is it that when I think about you

I find myself inanely grinning

Yet I get nothing back from you

That would get my giddy head spinning

 

I can’t go on getting nothing back

I have wasted too much time on you

I need to feel your love, but I don’t

So, breaking up is the only thing to do

 

Breaking up is hard to do, so says the song

But that doesn’t apply in this case

For when I tell that our affair is over

No hint of emotion shows on your face

 

I should perhaps have realised

Your heart was not there for the winning

But blinded by my love I didn’t notice

You were indifferent from the beginning

UNEQUAL PARTNERS

 

Why do you hold back?

Why can’t you go all the way?

“I love you” those are the words

That I want  to hear you say

Don’t be half hearted

I need you one hundred percent

I don’t want you to be unsure

I want you to be content

 

You have to be sure

Content as I am in my choice

But you are not are you?

I can hear it in your voice

 

You don’t feel the same as I

I don’t make your pulse race

Or your heart skip a beat

I’m right; I can see it on your face

 

Love isn’t a one-way street

It has to flow both ways

But it isn’t flowing to me

Not even on the best of days

 

Then it’s over and done

I won’t have half measures

It has to be all or nothing

Not just the pleasures

 

I need to be “the one”

I won’t be your second best

I won’t invest my love

With no prospect of interest

 

It’s sad when love ends

And a couple have to part

But I only feel regret

That I never reached your heart

HAVE YOU SEEN HER?

 

The coffee shop was quiet

Much quieter than last week

When I last saw her,

Which was also the first time

But in those seven days

She has filled my every thought

I have haunted the coffee shop everyday

But I haven’t seen her again

And today once more

There is no sign of her

I should ask the waitress

But what would I say

“Have you seen that girl?

She was here a week ago

The girl who was sat there

In that easy chair

The girl with the chestnut hair

In a pixie cut, have you seen her”?

How ridiculous would that sound?

She would think me mad

Or worse a stalker

Maybe if I told her about her smile

A smile to brighten the darkest day

Or those green eyes

Hypnotic and mesmerising,

Or that soft velvet laugh

But no I would just sound creepy

So I order a coffee instead

And sit in her corner

Drinking my coffee

While pondering my insanity

“Do you mind if I join you”?

A voice halted my musings

It was her, my quarry

She was here and she was speaking to me

“Absolutely, please do”

I replied rather pompously

“I love this corner” she said

“I like to sit and watch the world go by”

We exchanged a smile

But now she was actually here

I was speechless and my head was spinning

And I felt a little guilty

For stalking her like prey

Then, in a soft easy tone

She spoke again, which put me at my ease

“Didn’t I see you in here last week?”

BE KIND REWIND

 

What a perfect evening

What a perfect first date

From the very first moment

We met beneath the clock

Till I left her at her door

Her sweet kiss upon my lips

Was complete and utter bliss

As I walk home, I relive it

Her soft brown hair, the hazel eyes

Her sweet smile and her exotic smell

Oh, and her soft caress

As in my head

I repeat each perfect moment

Then rewind and watch again

FILL MY WORLD WITH LIGHT

 

From the first break of day

Till the setting of the sun

My heart is full to overflowing

And I know that you are the one

 

Even as the dusk descends

And the world hovers in twilight

My heart still holds true

And I know all will be alright

 

But when the dark shadows merge

And the dusk turns into black

My heart is filled with dread

As the doubts come flooding back

 

It’s in the darkness where I succumb

Where I surrender to the fear

I am weak and afraid when I’m alone

But I feel strong when you’re near

 

You can banish the darkness forever

Filling my life with a perfect light

With the love that fills your heart

You can make everything alright

 

Marry me and be my wife

And keep the forbidding dark at bay

I will know no fear or darkness

Only light after our wedding day

YOU HAD ME LOVING YOU

You had me loving you from day one

And I had you loving me when it begun

But somewhere along the way

Your cheating heart decided to stray

You had me loving you totally

And I thought I had you loving me

But now your heart resides elsewhere

And you have left me in utter despair

You are still the one that I adore

But you don’t love me anymore

You still have me loving you totally

But I no longer have you loving me