Love's A Mystery To Me

How are you these days? I don’t really care.
If you came round, I’d be out, or I’d go upstairs,
I can’t begin to explain how sick you make me,
You knew that for every last thing you’d take me.

From the outset, was I your outlet?
From the stranger you never said dumped you a week before.
We started it up, turned on the love,
Got down and dirty on my kitchen floor.

And that’s all it was, that’s the fool I was,
We had sex shared kisses and that is all.
I tried to get in touch, I haven’t heard from you in three weeks
Too few returned texts, and to many tears on my cheeks cheeks,

Love’s a mystery to me, can get my head around it,
It’s something no one can relate, just wait until you’ve found it.
I’ll laugh and cry, one day I’ll die, one day my dreams will come true,
But not today, and not with you, so please just be passing through.

So hurt my life and break my heart,
Because that’s all you seem able to do,
Give me the chance for a brand new start,
Don’t come back because I don’t love you.

Now my heart functions once again,
Without being in a love broken again and again
One careless action and a life you can end,
I fought for you and lost nearly every friend,

That I have, but now I’m glad, because it makes it bitter,
But you see, I now conceive, life with you would be shitter,
The last two weeks no kisses hit your cheeks,
Fists go flying, we end up crying, blaming each other.

Love’s a mystery to me, can get my head around it,
It’s something no one can relate, just wait until you’ve found it.
I’ll laugh and cry, one day I’ll die, one day my dreams will come true,
But not today, and not with you, so please just be passing through.

There’s a girl I’ve met, of twenty two,
Maybe she’s the last chance, for me to start my life anew.
So this I’ll relate to you with much glee,
I’m alive, I survived, I can still be happy

Met her at a bar, wasn’t my place by far,
Suffering the booze, I was feeling pretty down,
We talked; I laughed, and walked her home,
even though it was right across town.

I’ve told her about you, and we’re talking it nice and slow,
She won’t be a rebound thing, I want this love to grow.
Not explode, then grow old, in under a year,
Maybe I’ll still be with this girl when death comes near.

Love’s a mystery to me, but maybe now I’ve found it,
Try and find it but all you seem to do is go in circles round it.
I’ll laugh and cry, one day I’ll die, one day my dreams will come true,
So leave me alone now, because loves a mystery to you too.

I’ll laugh and cry, one day I’ll die, one day my dreams will come true,
So leave me alone now, because I’ve got over you.

Another mini-assignment here, to create a presentation in groups to show to the group. We chose poems about love, across the length of a relationship. From beginning to end. This is about the end, and perhaps a new beginning?

You've gotta love optimism!

(This work is copyright(c) of the author, Chris Drinkall)