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Underway Blues

First time I saw you

You were sprinting into the wind

And I laid back on the grass

Under the sun, lost in mind

Why was it so hard for me to say the truth?

That I chose a girl that lived closer and another because she opened her mouth and legs and heart to me

 

Sorry I rather give you a poem you may not care for

Than money to drink and eat though I have no regrets in providing

This life has turned my heart into stone

Unsure if youre the angel I believe you are or

If another man has you in his bed when I left room for you in my own

Nervous if your sweet text are sarcastic words you show to your pretty friends and they laugh at the joy of being women

Understand Love has broken me and I put myself together into a man my mother cannot even recognize

 

I feel so distant from the seventeen year old athlete you first met and felt attraction for

That placed his heart on the track to keep it away from home

Who tired his body so he can sleep through the chaos outside his bedroom door

 

Now, rocking from side to side as I eat, trying to find balance in my body and in my desire for your hand in marriage

A salty sailor with unpublished dreams and a desire to make average to a little above salary, almost mid twenty without a car

 

Im afraid you want that lost athlete and not the chain smoking sailor though we wear the same face and love you more than anything this world can offer

 

After taps, during watch, out in the rippling sea, surronded by stars from east to west, I think of you and how beautiful we can be but for the rest of the day I try to find peace that what we speak maybe fantasy

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Dec 7, 2015
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