Date


Table for two
She's feeling kind of blue again today
Doesn't really have that much to say
In the seat opposite
He's longing to get through to her

Every nuance
She's always been lovely to him
Even now in this restaurant as she stirs her tea
Gazing out the window absently

He wrote her a song
This morning but her day has been long and she
Just isn't in the mood for listening to music right now
Still he melts
Every time their eyes almost meet

Penny for your thoughts
He says and she glances at him
I suppose she finally replies
I don't even know what to think besides

It's like this
I guess I believe that you exist she says
But I don't see what sets you apart
From all the other men
Or why you're the only one right for me

You're good and kind
But I can't find anything
To prove you're the only way, and some of what you say
Kind of bothers me

He takes his time before
Speaking any more but she continues
I don't know if I believe you love me
The music is nice
But you're always so quiet and always running late

I want control
And I don't want all the counsel and I don't want all the guilt
I know you'd bring to me and sink me down
And your apartment's such a mess that I can hardly walk around

Presently
She is finding her tea fascinating
Her eyes do not reach across the table to him
And she doesn't see the tears
That are streaming from his

And she does not see
The love for her that burst his heart
How his life he aches to give
She's so ignorant and critical, but he'd give himself to die if it meant that she would live

In indifferent silence his love
butters a roll of bread from
the basket on the table
and still steadfast is his resolve.

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