Love That Brings Change
What does it mean when the sky turns brown?
When people’s smiles turn into a frown?
When birds stop singing and fly away?
When you get more angry with everything I say?
What does it mean when sweets are bitter?
When a winner soon becomes a quitter.?
When hot air balloon rides are no longer fun?
When we are back to where we have begun?
Why am I wrong to insist that I am right?
To scream & holler when all are uptight?
To act like an ass while in a museum?
To make everyone there feel like leaving?
Have I stepped over some unseen bounds?
Maybe, played the part of an insane clown?
Maybe came completely unglued?
Maybe, acted like a spoiled prude?
It seems I have done all this and more.
Now, I am no longer welcome at your door.
I have embarrassed you in front of your friends.
There is no quicker way to bring on an end.
What can I say and what can I do?
I am still madly in love with you.
I need a attitude adjustment and more.
Till I can no longer pick myself up off the floor.
Yet, it is a fact of life. Love brings heartache and strife.
Much of it brought on by my own actions in life.
I admit, I need to step back and take a look at myself.
Try to understand how other people have felt.
I love you with an undying love from the heart.
But, I sabotage it and rip it apart.
I am a winner who can never really win.
I will screw myself over before the end.
It is wise to learn from your mistakes.
I just hope and pray I am not too late.
It won’t be easy, but I will look in the mirror.
Then say “You will change, or die alone, I fear.”
————————————————————R. W. Johnson—–(2015)