Please Write

Could you see me now

if you tried?

You've been away for so long
do you even remember

what I look like?

When you left I said

"See ya later"

and prayed.

You said "Good-bye."

    Did you mean it?

I sit here,

    right here,

day after day,

writing long love letters to you.
Some are never sent

    because you once said

you didn't like the mushy kind.
Of the ones that do find their way

into the nearest mail box

few are ever answered.

I lie awake at nights and wonder
    if you're just so very busy ...
or whether you just don't care.

I really wish I knew.


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Copyright © 2004 renewed by Jace Carlton

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