Sucker

by Peter Williams   Oct 14, 2006


Stop looking at me for I won't smile.
Stop smiling at me for I won't look.
Nothing has happened that I could control,
Then again nothing ever happens and I should know.
One beat of the heart,
One clap of the hand,
One beat of a drum,
One song of a band.
There's always one chance.
One chance in a lifetime and I have missed mine.
There's nothing left to do,
There's nothing left to say,
Expect to say farewell and go on my merry little way.
Too much to take in,
Not enough air to breathe.
I wanted to sing with you,
I wanted to forget,
I wanted to remember that which I forgot.
First stanza,
Second stanza,
Third.
Let my soul fly as free as a bird.
A flower in your ear,
None in mine.
I wish I could just disappear and save you the time.
I sigh a sigh and breathe a breath,
Then everything is gone and only you are there.
Looking at me,
Smiling at me.
My heart isn't strong,
It clings to what it needs and that is love,
But to whom may it brings?
In the shadows of trees,
On the grass so green,
In the oceans so blue and the voids in between,
Everything is gone and only you are there,
So I'll be looking,
So I'll be smiling,
Because you and me will never be,
But I still dream a dream,
I still breathe a breath,
I still sigh a sigh,
You won't be there,
But none the less.
I will pucker my lips and close my eyes to the full,
After all I am just...
A sucker for the impossible.

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