Don’t Come Easy

by Kevin Sinclair

Sleep don’t come easy now
The night is dark and black
With fog of hazy memories
Times when you were with me
And we talked until the new day
Lost in our own world
But dreams are never real
Just what would have been good
If there had been courage
To be more honest.

Words don’t come easy now
The pain of the moment has past
But it still lives on in the memory
Colouring the present times
I remember when you laughed
It brought tears to your eyes
Which sparkled in the candle light
We could have been so good
If we had only been able to share
The feelings we had deep inside.

Laughter don’t come easy now
Too many self recriminations
Get in the way of living
There has been loving somewhere
A distant memory is all that’s left
Like a blind man being guided
Need a tug boat to bring this ship
Into the wharf so as to unload
If we had only been able to touch
So gently and full of care.

Tears don’t come easy now
As there is no one to wipe them away
Dried up like a shrivelled prune
Need some water and sunlight
There is a seed just waiting
Will it get the chance to grow
It’s so long since this desert
Has seen rain fall from the sky
If only we had spoken kind words
There might have been a way.

Life don’t come easy now
Wasted opportunities and regrets
Debris litters the way ahead
There’s a wasteland left behind
Into this still silence of mine
There came a very faint sound
Someone whispering my name
Couldn’t they shout out loud
If only there had been the time
Could have said “I love you”.

Too soon forgotten
Too soon past
One more time
Is all I ask.

Copyright ©1998 KG Sinclair. All rights reserved.