Friday, July 23, 2010

Our Place

It's our place, but you don't even know
Her quiet warmth, it harbours me
When hopeless pain becomes a mask
And unknown thoughts flow down the creek

Like the tree wherein I carved
Her name and mine three years apart
My heart betrays the stilted marks.
Where bark has fallen -- the lines remain.

And like the tree, I'll ne'er forget
The star-crossed hopes and dreams I shared;
The single heart, the only one.
The girl who meant the world to me

The cause of salt-drenched wandering
And bargaining with God on high
But I, I know in time she'll pass
And sink again beneath the bark

Ten years from now, with wife and child,
I can't expect to be content
But equalness in love is prime
What's good for her, I understand

No comments: