Bedtime Story

Someday, when I'm

Old enough,

brave enough

To have my own

Children,

I'll tell them about you...

About a man

I loved so much,

About how I longed

to hold your back

whenever I'm

walking behind you...

About how I wrote

Love letters and

never let you read

any of them...

About how I prayed

and hoped that

You'd be brave enough

to love me too...

About how I almost

told you Iloveyou

on a New Year's Eve...

Of the teasing smiles

And hapless denials

that broke my heart

every time...

Of the small things

I did to show you

the things I could

never tell...

Someday, when we're

all aged and jaded,

When the heart

No longer fears

rejection,

I will tell my

Children that

You were my first love

And my only

Heartache.

And how I could

Only hope

to tell them that

It was you...

Their father broke

My heart a million

Times but

loved me all the same...

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