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Oct 2013
If I had one more tomorrow
No time to waste or borrow
One chance to tell you straight
One chance for a seed to take
One piece of life left to give
One moment I have yet to live
I would say what I meant
Though you wouldn't understand
If the message was sent
I would know I died a man

I would tell you I love you
Though you don't know why
Never taken a date for two
Never held you as you cried
Never been there for Christmas
To give you a gift
Just what you needed plus
So heartfully picked

Never protected you from a storm
Keeping the rain away and the covers warm
Never spent the summer together
Looked into your eyes under the stars forever
Never pulled you out of trouble
Just to get you deeper in it
Never ran a bath full of bubbles
Never played a game just to let you win it

Never laughed at how cute you get
When your mad and I know you want me dead
Never slipped out of time
Never made you truly mine

But you see, these things I don't need
To know you're worth loving with everything in me
Because it doesn't take time
Doesn't take moments
Because in this heart of mine
You don't have to grow it
All I do is look with a heart open wide
And I see you and I swell with pride
Because there's so much to love in a beautiful soul
If this last moment is the only time you'd believe me
If unconditional love would pull you from this hole
Then my life would have meaning
Matthew Nichols
Written by
Matthew Nichols  Ozark, Arkansas
(Ozark, Arkansas)   
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