Ransom

Ransom

Lifetimes of regrets in but a few months slip through my hands as you hold my wrist

Still holding on as your take your last breaths and together we pray and we wait

Too short and too young and I’d give all I could if it were me as you breathe so weak

I give you my strength not near enough; so strange in your grasp feeling so helpless

Without the tools to give what you need and this punishment for all your good deeds

All you did was love, unrequited, platonic, so full of passion and teasingly playful

While I laid my crimes and took up your time; found reasons to doubt and kept you out

Until it too late and now you take all of mine and we hold on to those three little words

Said accidental as you smiled your secret near the way you do now as you hold out

For one more day, a few more hours, where you hold all of me and I‘d do anything

As I barter and bargain and finally confess not a price I wouldn’t pay if that was your ransom