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joyfull girl
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since 2003-06-10
Posts 15


0 posted 2003-06-19 06:35 PM



I love you
Did you hear me say I love you?
In a whisper
Across a crowded room
If words could only fly
You’d hear me
My body lacks the conviction to move
I search for your profile
Among strangers
My hands lay empty
Without your fingers
Alone
I am alone

I drove down the road
That you and I took
Only a few short weeks ago
Now you can’t hear me
My voice falls over
These cliffs to the rocks below
This time I didn’t drive so fast
There was nowhere I had to be
I drove so far to get away from my feelings
Only I can’t get away from me

I want to capture you in this light
Just before sunset
When the sky turns the world pink
You would look so beautiful
Sitting in this place
That I’ve chosen to stop at and think
You took me out of your life so completely
You wrote me out of the story
They say that love’s a game
Well babe you won this round
To the winner goes the glory

I love you
Did you hear me say I love you?
Were you listening?
Did you see tears in my eyes?
I tried tore down my walls to be near you
I was wrong now I’m left holding your lies

© Copyright 2003 Joy - All Rights Reserved
hush
Senior Member
since 2001-05-27
Posts 1653
Ohio, USA
1 posted 2003-06-20 12:15 PM


I like the melancholy tone of this quite a bit... you might enhance it by adding some more images- something wistful, maybe- and working more descriptive words into the lines here and there. One other big thing I would work on... maybe some punctuation, additional to the question marks? Everything seems to kind of run together here, that might smooth that out a bit.

Hope I've helped.

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