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The Man Who Waited

I don't know if you waited for his heart to break

Knowing your time would come one day

Understanding that only I was the one to cut the bond

Hoping that I would realise the rope was tethered all the way

 

Or maybe you didn't have a clue what was going on

Didn't even know that I was on the other side of the world

Just had a feeling that something was coming your way

The same feeling I had when I was a little girl

 

Both ways make my life more worth living

After time spent a wandering ghost

And so undeterred was your openness that I gave myself willingly

My essence even more completed by the welcoming host

 

I knew our love was always destined to be completed

But I didn't know you would keep me in the end

I thank him for surrendering his half of who I love

To the man waiting patiently with the other half ready to mend

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Jun 16, 2015
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