i'll be your heroine
if only you'll have me
and i will be better than i was.
and my love is perennial,
that is, it will never die
and endures always;
i won't shy from the troubles
and i will not break when they come
and if you let me,
i can undo the wrongs
and i will know and accept each fault
as they come.
i want to be your pretty baby
-- and love has taught me that i can only love you for what you are
(and that is all i want, all i need)
and i was mistaken
to try to change you to what you are not.
and i know i caused you pain
and i once hurt without thinking
and i can't imagine what it took
for you to be strong for me that night,
but know that
i will repay it
with my greatest debt --
i will be better than i was
and i must have scared you so much that night
but know that
i will fix it --
i'm right here
with my arms open --
and all our dreams i hold on to
folded away; safe in my palms.
(14/03/2017)
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THE OCEAN
Poetry'In the old days at home the Neverland had always begun to look a little dark and threatening by bedtime. Then unexplored patches arose in it and spread, black shadows moved about in them, the roar of the beasts of prey was quite different now, and...