If I Could Only Have Tomorrow
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If I Could Only Have Tomorrow
I've loved you for so long now
I've loved you from afar.
Nights I've prayed to have you.
I've even wished upon a star.
Nothing's gotten me closer
like I hoped to be to you.
I could dream forever
and not see one dream come true.
And so I come before you
and I get down on one knee.
And ask if there might be a way
you'd do one thing for me.
One day to last my lifetime
an ending to my sorrow.
Let me be with you tonight
and let me have tomorrow.
Let me look into your eyes
as the sun begins to shine.
Let me if for a moment
just pretend your mine.
It's not about the love we'll make
or the joy I hope you find.
I've loved you for forever
already in my mind.
If only I can have tomorrow
just to see you in the dawn.
I swear to you if you want me to
by nightfall I'll be gone.
Then though I be forgotten
and you can't recall my name.
No longer sad and lonely
I'll still love you just the same.
Living in the memory
I'd beg or steal or borrow.
Enslaving me and saving me
if I could only have tomorrow.
Edwin C Hofert
Copyright © Edwin Hofert | Year Posted 2015
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