Poem for Him Lyrics

My heart is weary now

of being in pieces

Only to find poetry where a future should be

I try to tell her

One day

I'll write a poem for a man who will choose to stick around

long enough for the pages to fill the rest of our lives

He will not be content with mere stanzas on parchment

He will want the whole of me

Taste the metaphor of my grief

& understand why I love so hard

The allegory of me won't be enough

He will want to hold the prose I've penned

in his own palms

He will not merely applaud the idea of me

He will walk past the stage & lights

find the woman backstage beautiful,

He will be the only audience to give me stage fright

his opinion will matter more than a stadium of critics

He will desire to be more than my muse

More than the object of my pen

He will want to be one

Until we are both the poet & the poem

Love

Has made a fool of me

Time & time again

But the wind always outlives the mountain