since you've been gone
i can do what i want to do
wear any old pair of shoes
knowing i won't run into you
and that knowing smile
that shake of a head
that saying more than what's said
i can hang out at my old haunts
i do have one or two
and not smile
at the doorbell
that brings you
i can wear long sleeves
and lip colour so bright
you'd have said where are my glasses
this shade hurts my eyes
i can make conversations with other people now
all i need is to learn how
so shoes and clothes and cosmetics
quite a full life i'd say
ah but where's all that intensity
i'd take that any damn day.
i can do what i want to do
wear any old pair of shoes
knowing i won't run into you
and that knowing smile
that shake of a head
that saying more than what's said
i can hang out at my old haunts
i do have one or two
and not smile
at the doorbell
that brings you
i can wear long sleeves
and lip colour so bright
you'd have said where are my glasses
this shade hurts my eyes
i can make conversations with other people now
all i need is to learn how
so shoes and clothes and cosmetics
quite a full life i'd say
ah but where's all that intensity
i'd take that any damn day.
3 comments:
Absolutely beautiful. So touching. Inspiring and hopeful. one of the best I've read in a while. Please put it up in Facebook also so that more people come across this.
I'm running short of words.
lovely. i like the casual approach it carries and the subtle truth within.
so true !
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