#198: The Other Man

Kicking myself, as I attempt to escape this pain,

Because I allowed myself to relive these things.

Confiding in me, your life needed someone new,

And you were glad you found me...I believed it true.

Distant the drama, because that's not my style,

Confessing to your Momma tears haven't fallen in a while.

Sincerely expressing you'd never met a man like me,

Knowing my desire was to Love you, and never leave.

I asked for nothing more, than your affections,

But your past entrapped your attention.

And I assumed you wanted more than to fight,

Never my idea of a good night.

Deserving more than piano style abuses,

Lowkey, Hi-key, words like shrapnel ripping through your soul.

Having me wonder, is that who I should be and more?

Because the hurt of losing, is more than perplexing me,

Why the "Good" are the last resort?

"Madly in Love" over "Madness", that's what we could've enjoyed,

You swore you didn't want that pain again,

And I knew your life shouldn't be that way. 

I'm not sure where we went left,

But for me, right is slipping away.

Should I take notes? From others who seem to be winning,

Being left to watch in solitude, doesn't quite feel like living.

If I'm not over Love, it seems Love is through with me,

The pain of grasping it, and being stripped away,

Hurting more than a man will rarely confess.

Having this dilemma, more than I choose to stand,

So I advise myself daily, next time I'll be the Other Man.

#197: We Don't Have to Talk

It's been a while since my ears heard your voice,

Sadden without the tingle of your words they can't rejoice.

Enjoying your life, living on happily without me...I'll endure,

When there was a time you were my only cure.

The coin's other side revealing I'm still your biggest fan,

Foolish of me to fight against the Master and his plans.

Yet, I relish in the notion that our Love was real,

When time moved forward but these moments reside.

Even if you love another, it could never be what we've birthed,

Love created from above, now dwelling on Earth.

Refusing to be entrapped by "what isn't", 

When "what was" can never be destroyed.

Thoughts of loving you, not Past, they're eternal, 

So when I said I'll always loved you, I never lied.

Immortal...whether we never speak, 

Touched....whether your hands never caress.

When feeling you in places hands could never embrace.

Riches of those days, can never leave me broke,

As for a time you were solely mine, and I yours. 

Though it could never be the same, even if I loved another, 

When embedded memories testify of you like no other.