I Never Knew a Love Before - Warning, It's a Long One
I never knew a love before
Of you my proudest moments stand
For only I can see
This life was once a jumbled mess
Much more than it should be
I gaze upon the history
Of what has come and gone
A miracle that I survived
The path that I was drawn
Traveling to find my way
I stumbled and I fell
Knees were scraped and jeans were tore
The bottom of the well
I ran from every avenue
Where angry faces stood
Walking in the shadowed streaks
And never thought I should
The tears I cried were multiple
With worry on my face
I dreamed of happy endings
In a very special place
Forever I was searching for
A place to call my home
A tender heart to hold me tight
No longer would I roam
I made the best, I had no choice
The world in constant spin
Though standing in the losers line
I felt I couldn’t win
I know the pictures that you see
The stories that they bare
Are only what I cared to show
To those so unaware
The happiness that I portrayed
Was merely out of jest
For what you see is what you get
I did my very best
But still my heart was lonelier
With people all around
I stared into the empty void
And listened for a sound
When hope seemed all but ever lost
A shining star at night
Whispered to the inner me
At once I saw the light
For there within the darkness sat
A million miles away
Images of something good
Across my view did play
It’s funny how the world does hold
The bright and shining prize
Just outside my fingertips
So clear before these eyes
Thoughts start running through my mind
As nothing seems as fair
For I am where I’ve always been
And she’s still standing there
Forever I will chase the dream
As long as I have breath
Until the days wash over me
In my impending death
I pray that something good will come
I hold on to the thread
And tell myself when all is done
I whisper in my head
That love is but the keeper
Of the reasons I believe
That someday soon we’ll be as one
As you will be with me
I never knew a love before
Like I have found in you
Though I have thought a thousand times
Of something like this true
I know these words are sorted
And the paragraphs are long
But how can this, the way we feel
Be seen as something wrong
No one can tell my wanting heart
Which deep inside I see
That we should ever be apart
I need you here with me
And when this world stops spinning
Now to close that final door
I swear to you this lonely man
Will only love you more
Copyright © Chris Green | Year Posted 2017
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