Our Song

You said you knew you didn't tell me
You loved me nearly enough.
And you knew that you couldn't write me
Sweet and lovely poems.
And you knew you didn't always show me
How important I was to you.
But...
What you didn't always say,
You thought every day.
What you couldn't ever write
You felt in your heart.
And though you didn't always show it,
You knew that it was true.
And I thought of the day,
You admitted
With a trace of embarrassment
That you made fun of those
Sappy love songs
Because they never made sense to you
Until I came along
And Fate skipped a beat
And scared you to death.

© 1991-2009 Samantha Greene