When You Can't Love You

When You Can't Love You

© 2018 Jeff Jackson

I see you curled up

in a ball in your bed

Buried treasure with

sheets on your head

You didn’t sleep at all

you wish you were dead

God put me here

to cheer you instead

Seems your world is

imploding on you

Got you questioning

what’s good and what’s true

Look at yourself and

your image turns blue

Let me give you

new eyes to look through

When you can’t love you

Let me love you

When you can’t love you

Let me love...let me love you

I miss you,

though I know you’re still here.

You can push

But I’ll only come near.

You ask for love,

You still can’t quite hear you’re engulfed in it, baby,

Like a bubble in beer

Your mind is worried

that I’ll get tired and leave.

It’s like a prayer

for the things you don’t need.

My feet are planted

like hickory trees

You are mine

to the billionth degree.

You deserve every flower.

You deserve every tree.

You deserve to be

loved by someone

Just so happens that one is me.