You never listened so closely
Never looked so carefully
Or searched more deeply
In the things I had to offer
You never cared to take the time
Or had the patience to hear
You never tried to understand
The things I had to say
But now the pages turn in your hands
The words stab like knives
The meaning that you ignored
Now you try to find
The time when it would have mattered
The time you should have cared
The time that is now gone
Will haunt you forever
The words that once came alive
Are eternally frozen behind the mouth
The mouth that will never again speak
Never again seek to be heard
Why is it now that you try
To understand the meaning
The things I fought for all my life
The things you always ignored
My voice will not be alive on the pages
My meaning will be gone with me
You should have listened when you had the chance
The dead take no pity on the living
 Prancing Thunder · Mon Jul 06, 2009 @ 05:20am · 0 Comments |
