Sing Me A Song Poem by Kevin Carney

Sing me a song today…
Make the melody all so sweet.
Write the lyrics so soft and tender, just like you can be.
Put it all together, let it fade away my pain.
Sing it so softly, make me sit and listen, ever so carefully.
Let me take in all you say and try to understand.
It’s been so hard to see what is really going on.
In and out of the shadows I walked through.
I’m not sure I will ever get used to it.
Walking in loneliness, only hoping you would be beside me.
Empty the street is, it’s become you and me.
Push and pulled, not knowing what is to become.
Some say it’s so wrong, too different are we.
It’s so funny in a way, that I see at times we are the same.
Pressure all around us, two different paths, two different lives.
Can the courage be found to maybe be one?
The clouds of darkness can be all so grey…
Rolling in from day by day.
Storms are out on the horizon…
You can feel it just like me.
Holding us from being together finally.
I know it’s not rational, to think this way.
I couldn’t help it…
I had no choice…
Your love is out there for the taking if only you would let me in.
I don’t think you understand that you are all that you’ll ever be.
Really you are all I ever wanted…
So much it is for me to see what could be.
I feel like I am on the outside looking in.
So afraid to step over the threshold just to hold you tight.
It’s all so new to me, never were the feelings so strong in me.
The time I spend I am not sure where it’s going to end.
This trip we have taken really open my eyes to you.
I saw you across the room, young child in your arms.
Such a smile you had on your face…
The love of the child clearly on her face.
You laugh and giggle, the little girl squealed in delight.
This can be a song of life…
It’s too damn clear for me to see.
That you are meant to be…
Such a natural love you had shown.
It kind of made me sad to see how natural you could be.
Only I wished with all my heart.
That that could be the three of us…
Somehow I don’t think that will never be.
Sing that song one more time…
Maybe it will make a difference in the outcome.
Maybe you and I will put the fears aside.
You could become the mother in you I’ve just seen…
Somehow the dream could be the song playing in the background…
And maybe if we had the chance that could be the three of us.