[a pleasant interruption]

attheriversedge:

An Open Heart Letter (Love Lost)

I’ve wrote so many letters to you that you’ll never see
So many words, so many confessions…but doing the right thing is never me

In your name I’ve broken hearts, but it was all in vain, I never did tell
you how I felt or how I still feel, so much and so real, but now I’m left
with regret knowing that the ship has sailed and you’re out of reach….

I remember all our moonlit conversations, we’d speak to each other in songs
taking shelter in the written word and the meaning that we heard.
How I loved taking the time to know your beautiful mind, to know
what made you, to know what shaped you…how I wish I could have been part of your story.

In your name I’ve broken hearts, but it was all in vain, I never did tell
you how I felt or how I still feel, so much and so real, but now I’m left
with regret knowing that the ship has sailed and you’re out of reach….

It’s all my own fault, that much I know…
I let you slip through my fingers, love…
Now you’re left to think that I never cared
It’s all my own fault, that much I know…
I let you slip through my fingers, love…
Now you’re gone and I never told you how I feel…

So here it is my dear, an open heart letter…
All the things I’ve ever wanted to say
All those things I should’ve said…
So here it is honey, for what it’s worth, an open heart letter that you’ll finally see…

It’s all my own fault, that much I know…
I let you slip through my fingers, love…
Now you’re left to think that I never cared
It’s all my own fault, that much I know…
I let you slip through my fingers, love…
Now you’re gone and I never told you how I feel…

I’ve tried to justify it to myself…
I’ve tried to make myself believe it wasn’t meant to be,
but that’s a claim so childish and naive
You were honest, wore it on your sleeve…let your feelings be known…no matter the cost
If only I’d been so brave and followed my heart…

Now you’re gone..

When I think of you I skip a beat and have to remember to breathe

So here it is my dear, an open heart letter…
All the things I’ve ever wanted to say
All those things I should’ve said…
So here it is honey, for what it’s worth, an open heart letter that you’ll finally see…

I’m so sorry, honey. Indecision was always my downfall…silent self-sabotage

You’ll always be close to my heart, never far from my thoughts.

So here it is my dear, an open heart letter…
All the things I’ve ever wanted to say
All those things I should’ve said…
So here it is honey, for what it’s worth, an open heart letter that you’ll finally see…

(Originally written July 2002)