blossom schovanec

Shield My Heart

As I lay here in total darkness
or even a dimmed room.
I start to space out cause your not around.
The darkness clouds my mind,
but you brighten my day.
You seem to boost me up
when I am down.
But most of all you've filled my heart with
a love it never knew.
My heart was once empty and cold.
Till you came with your warm tender words.
I've shield myself from feeling the kind of love
that I never knew.
When I look at your smile, it's a smile of hopes
and dreams.
Dreams that would one day break the shield
that closed my heart.
I so often ...