Shades of Gray
I walked down the street,
Hoping to sweep you off your
feet.
I climbed up the stair,
Planning to brush back your
hair.
I strolled through the hall,
Thinking that for me, you
would fall.
But I was wrong,
Things don’t turn out that way.
I was wrong,
Life is colored in shades of
gray.
I long for what I never knew,
I wish for what we never had.
What you had was a chance,
But it blew right past your
head.
My love was what I had for
you,
Your love was all I knew from
you.
To me, your love just seemed
so vain,
To me, your hate was seething
pain.
At the days end,
It feels like it never began,
At the days end,
I’m running through the dark
again.
So at the end of the day,
all I see,
Is that life is colored,
in shades of gray.
Copyright © Joey Stanley | Year Posted 2012
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