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A Million Simple Things

I said a million simple things

That I loved about you

In the middle of October

Were you listening?

 

I gave my heart a pen

And let it write

A million simple things

That I felt about you

Were You Reading?

 

My fingers ran by themselves

A dose of cuteness here and there

Small, but apparent

Were You watching?

 

Simple replies speak volumes

And the absence speaks louder

What do I have to do to reach you?

What pervades my writing

That you won’t comment unless I ask?

 

Which lyrics speak to you and which don’t?

Should I send them, should I not?

It seems to make little difference.

Either way your silence deafens.

You want cuteness

But have little to say when I try to give it.

 

I don’t send these things, I don’t write these things for nothing

I do it for us.

An attempt

To intertwine us further.

To see what different pulses of my heart…

…Inspire different pulses of yours.

For your reaction, your passion.

But you often have too little to say

 

A million simple things

A song, a poem

Sent across the miles

To make me feel closer to you

 

If only, if only

You had

Even a hundred simple things to say about them.

 

If only, if only

I knew my heartbeat was heard

 

Sometimes the most important

Is a million simple things.

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Mar 7, 2010
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