Ain't gettin us nowhere



We can talk all night but that ain't gettin us nowhere
 You know what we have could truly never last ,
 I told you everything I possibly can,

 There's nothing left inside of me don't you
  Undrstand I could never be the woman
You would want me to be?

 The one I had loved had taken my heart and
Soul and riped it right out of me ,

 It's so cold out side don't cry lets hold on to
 eachother for the night then we can say goodbye ,
 You know I can't change the way I feel ,

 Love is not for me , Love at one time gave me a taste
 of what it could be ,But the pain of it left me crying in
 the wind,The snow is really piling up outside,

 I wish you wouldn't make me leave here But I do
 understand  why you need to ,I got my things and never
 looked back on what we could of had,

 The pain of long ago still takes hold of my soul, I poured
 it on and I poured it out I tried to show you just how much
 I care I'm tired of words and I'm too hoarse to shout,

 But you've been cold to me so long I'm crying in the night
 praying to be set free and let me let love come in
 ,I am crying in the cold and tears of the pain in my heart
 of long ago ,

 All I can do is keep on telling you I want you, I need you but
 I could never love you ,someone has the key to my heart
 and that one is taken me apart, no way I'm ever gonna love you
 now don't be sad,

 I held on to what we had why it had last ,But the past has me
 and has not set me free to give my love to another ,
 Now don't be sad I loved all those times you held me on a sandy
 beach,

 And how we travailed on all those city street,But the silence you
 gave me was killing me ,We held on as long as we could we even
 played love songs to help us get through another sad lonely night,

 I know you're looking for a ruby in a mountain of rocks But you will
 never find it as long as you have me in your life ,It is time to say
 goodbye,

 I can't lie, I can't tell you that I'm something I'm not No matter how
 I try I'll never be able to give you something that I just haven't got
 There's only one guy I'll ever love And that was so many years
 ago And though I know I'll never get him out of my heart or out
 of my mind,

 He , never loved me back Oh I know I remember how he left me
 on a stormy night he kissed me and got out of our bed I just cry'ed
 praying he wouldn't leave me like this, And though I pleaded
 and I begged him not to go,

 he just looked at me and walk out that door he packed his bags
 and turned right away and never said goodbye he left me with a nasty heartache that never gone away .
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Submitted on February 16, 2013

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Scheme XXX AXB XB ACX XDX AEF XXG HDIJ XIAF BEBX ADH XKC XXXGX BXXJ XK
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 2,511
Words 548
Stanzas 15
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 3, 3, 5, 4, 2

Lilly Emery

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  • sandrac.72704
    Ever hears the song two out of three ain't bad by meatloaf?? It's about the same as your poem. Write your own ideas not someone elses
    LikeReply2 years ago

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