TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
I want to learn of all the things you knew
Because I still don’t think that it was true
That you could love a simple guy like me
I want to see what inside me you see
You can’t just go and say that I was yours
And never let me pass through all those doors
The ones your father built for you with cash
Before he knew we kept our own small stash
Control for him was what it was all about
It never was our love that was in doubt
I may not have been rich like other guys
But I worked hard, loved you and had blue eyes
I worked as hard as any guy you knew
There was no question if my love was true
Together we could have made it alone
We could have had a happy little home
Then things went bad and I ran away
I did come back but had no words to say
Why I left someone beautiful as you
Whose smile was such an awesome thing to view
The truth was that I scared even myself
And life was like the inner ring of hell
I was insane, no other way to say
Why I left you on that last awful day
And now I spend each day and night alone
Money can buy a house but not a home
How I dreamed of us having our own son
Loving you and our child us three as one
But we make our choices take our chances
That is the way that human romance is
I wish you all the best life has to give
With you or not I will learn to live on
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Leif Gregersen
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Poems From Inside Me
PoesíaThis is a chapbook of poetry that led me to dedicate myself to writing, whether it be for money or simply to express myself. In this book I talk about family, love, loss and all the illusions that life brings us through.