What should have been...
Please be kind, this is my first ever public poetry outing as well as my first day on reddit so forgive any rookie errors I may have made!
"I can't keep you out of my mind these days,
Thinking about you with every song that plays.
So many thoughts about what could have been
had we just let go of the fear from within.
The wall that you've built is so hard to break,
but I'll keep on trying with every breath that I take.
You know how I feel, that's always been clear,
I wish for just once you'd let go of the fear.
We're much older now, but no wiser yet
and I'm as giddy around you as the day that we met
You can pull on my heartstrings like no one else can
Like a moth to a flame, when you call, there I am.
The sound of your name makes me smile every time
and so often I wonder if you could have been mine?
I think back to that night when I slept in your arms..
No way on this earth could I resist those charms.
You'd never believe how much you're a part
Of my thoughts, of my dreams, you've a piece of my heart.
You're not the owner but it's yours just the same
To that piece of me, you'll always have claim.
Have you any idea of how deep I'm in?
Or how often I think of what could have been?
I melt when I see you open up at last
Deep down I know you felt the same in the past
Why you kept it inside all this time, I don't know,
But I'm so glad your true feelings are now on show.
You're the one that I wanted but it could never be,
There was never a chance for you and me.
I hope you mean it when you say I love you
I've wished for so long that it was true.
You've kept it inside for all these years,
I thought you didn't care as I wiped my tears.
Another time, another place and you'd have my whole heart.
We'd have been so happy together from the very start.
But for now I'll keep dreaming of what could have been
Had we been true to each other and jumped right in.
Friends til the end is the way we shall stay
While I fight hard to keep these thoughts at bay
You're in my thoughts when I wake and I sleep,
They're safe right there for my heart to keep!! xx"
Posted Nov 1, 2022, 11:46 PM UTC · edited