Start Again
I sit in the café
Staring across the room
To nothing exactly
The bitter-sweet nostalgia
Replaying severally in my mind
As the songs by one direction play on
And just like them
We had grown out
Our forever seemed to have different things
And as we stood across the kitchen island
On the opposite sides of each other
We couldn’t help but smile
The bitter reality smacking in
And we knew it was the last time
That our love would ever be shared
Maybe we could kiss?
And end the note on a beautiful memory
But that would hurt a lot
So we just stare at each other
The distance between us so wide
The presence of our love, oblivious
And the memories begin to fade
As the pain becomes bearable
But the trauma from it all
Preventing me from loving again
Afraid I will have to walk away
And my heart can only take so much
And so I build a wall around it
Keeping it safe from all that pain
But then here comes another
And when I was not looking’
He knocked down the walls
And let himself in
The way he makes me smile
The way he makes me laugh
The way he comes home to me
Even when he is angry at me
Because there is nowhere in the world
That feels better for him
And so I feel
Strongly than ever before
But I begin to run
Before I can get caught in it all
But he holds me
Reassuring me
That even in pain,
He will always be with me
And so I start again
Falling in love
With the handsome stranger
That will someday
Become my everything