Saturday, May 28, 2005

Tenderness

Crudely constructed
And cold sometimes
What would I know
A putz reading lines

Sometimes I wonder why
Someone so lovely can find
Someone as me in compare
Someone so sweet and kind

Tenderness
Your sweet face
Tenderness
Your sweet ways
Tenderness

Vastly different
Yet so much the same
We walk together
A poem woven in rhyme

Sometimes I wonder why
Someone as beautiful as you

Someone as me, a bum
Someone so patient and true

Tenderness
Your sweet face
Tenderness
Your sweet ways
Tenderness


A total mess
Rags of shame
He redeems all these
From wild, now tame

Sometimes I wonder why
Someone so lovely can find
Someone as me in compare
Someone so sweet and kind

Tenderness
Your sweet face
Tenderness
Your sweet ways
Tenderness


Our brokenness
Pieces torn apart
What could I know
Of tenderness...

Tenderness
Your sweet face
Tenderness
Your sweet ways
Tenderness

by: Drew
May 6, 2003
(#29)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i hesitate tocomment- in fear that my validation of yourwords might be an insult- incomparison to how deep real &beautiful they are.. i only wishto admire your honesty. your friendof course, natalie