Life cannot be made easy By willing it be so. It cannot meet one's wishes And change how it may go. It moves, and no one gets More time than all the rest To accomplish life and tasks By nightfall's swift behest. Time marches, and the
My eyes, you say, hold longing, And when I boldly look at you Through my lashes, there's a stop And a start I put you through, And your heart responds, though I Don't know how or in what way. But I wish I had the power
I confessed to being a fool And I won't recant just yet. If you take me as I am What you see is what you get. If my hair's a bit unruly And my nails are bitten down, But you're somehow stricken speechless Then
My mouth speaks words of harm and does not cease. The tongue scorns reason--tears at troubled hearts. It forms its sounds and shatters restful peace, And as it does my own soul breaks apart. I cannot kill the words once they are spoken. Once gone, I cannot pull them back
If I could find a way to speak the love That gives me grace to give up selfish thought And holds me when it's you I'm thinking of And shows me I don't love you as I ought, Then you would know there'