You’ve forgiven people before,
Allowed them a mistake or two.

About time you forgive yourself,
Allow yourself a few.

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I’ve known you too much
to not know you anymore

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Remember when you asked me
What’s with my love for winters?
It’s the warmth of you I come back to
On a cold night of December.

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My words
tend to play
upon simple stories of love
Because complications tend to ruin us.

Like ours ruined us!

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That day
Sitting in a corner at the cafe
I waited

I waited
For you to appear
To take shape
My eyes seeking your face or a simple gaze

I waited
At the very least for an awkward wave
Maybe for an excuse and a quick getaway
And I would understand your dilemma
Because you’d known me only for a few days

But you had known me for a few days
So I waited
and resisted
the urge to look at my phone again
Or scream out your name in despair

I waited
For the door to open and you to finally walk in
And I waited
To take in that radiance, the fragrance, that smile on your face
And you’ll never know
But I’ll do it all again
If this time I wait and you could be there.

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It’s the sky that reminds me of better times
And there’s no escaping that...

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If there ever was a need
For you to know
And me to say...
I‘ve been thinking of you
and of that day!

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There must have been traces,
You must have left me signs...

Like shapes in the snow, maybe
Or words that only you and I could find,
Like cryptic notes on the mirror for me to see
Or songs that remind me of a special time

There must have been traces,
You must have left me signs...
‘Cause darling, I am just too naive...
To have found love, so easily, otherwise!

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Do you remember those correction pens?
The ones that turned our smudges to whites.
Our wrongs to possible, but ugly, rights.
The ones that, in a weird sense, turned back time...

I wish they could work for you and I.

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I hear words,
Late at nights,
Each night,
Gasping for ink,
And paper,
In my head,
Dying,
Slowly.

... Not tonight!

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