Guarded Devotion
If I could only tell you
How special you are to me
All the worries
All the sorrows
All the pain
Of yesterday would blow away
Like burnt leaves in an autumn wind
Do you feel the same way?
My life would be radically different
I would have someone to turn to in times of need
Someone to tell me it’s okay
Someone to look after me when my hair has gone gray
The comfort I’ve searched for my whole life
Would be standing
Before my very eyes
The peace I’ve longed for
Would be here at last
Loneliness and hopelessness no more
You are the center of my galaxy
Though I only just realized it
How can I express to you the pure joy that captivates
My soul
When I glimpse your beaming face
Peering around the corner
Do you feel the same way?
If I could only gather the courage to tell you
It would change everything
It would change my life
I hope it would change yours
Is it wrong for me to feel this cowardice,
This feebleness,
This fearfulness,
So that I can’t even utter my feelings to you?
Oh what I would give to reach inside your mind
And pluck out the thoughts that would spring to life
If you only knew how I truly felt
Please tell me you feel the same way
If I could only transform into a brave warrior
Who wouldn’t be plagued with doubt and fear that the woman who
Captured his heart would speak the words that
He doesn’t want to hear
Then I could tell you
My deepest secret
That you are all I think about now
Day and night
Night and day
That you are the essence of my being
That you are the reason for my existence
If I could only muster the strength to tell you
Then maybe
Maybe
Things would be different