ForgottenSouls• Show poetry

Someone once asked me...what am i looking for in a woman..? At the time...i was unsure...but now...i know..
She will have to be a special sort of woman, special in a way that goes beyond beauty, and compassion, and loyalty, and all the other qualities that men look for. She will have to be special in her strength. she will have to be as strong as i am to keep me in balance. she will have to be strong enough to raise a boy up into a man without weakening him with a womans' fears, yet strong enough to insist that he learn part of his manhood from a womans grace. she will have to be strong enough to have gone through fires and came out tempered, strong enough to live in the mountains of my mind. She would have to be some of the things that my mother is, and all of the things that she never could be. she will have to be....fine....Incredibly lovely with the kind of physical beauty that hurt, actually hurt you when you looked at them, and eyes....you looked at one of them and first, there was a sense of outrage at this unequal distribution of gods blessings, followed at once by a blow to the gut when you realized that she would never be yours...

The two songs that got me through some of the roughest times of my life...kinda funny that they are two songs that could have been the death of me at the time...

How Do You Get That Lonely


It was just another story printed on the second page
Underneath the Tiger's football score
It said he was only eighteen, a boy about my age
They found him face down on his bedroom floor

There'll be services on Friday at the Lawrence Funeral Home
Then out on Mooresville highway, they'll lay him 'neath a stone...

How do you get that lonely, how do you hurt that bad
To make you make the call, that havin' no life at all
Is better than the life that you had
How do you feel so empty, you want to let it all go
How do you get that lonely... and nobody knows

Did his girlfriend break up with him, did he buy or steal that gun?
Did he lose a fight with drugs or alcohol?
Did his Mom and Daddy forget to say I love you son?
Did no one see the writing on the wall?

I'm not blamin' anybody, we all do the best we can
I know hindsight's 20/20, but I still don't understand...

How do you get that lonely, how do you hurt that bad
To make you make the call, that havin' no life at all
Is better than the life that you had
How do you feel so empty, you want to let it all go
How do you get that lonely... and nobody knows

It was just another story printed on the second page
Underneath the Tiger's football score...

That's All I've Got To Say About That


I don't have too much to say
About most things anyway
The weather's cold or it's hot
It's either wet or it's not
I'm no expert on life
I just try to do right
I'm a man of few words
Since you asked about her

Oh, I love her and I need her
I'll do anything to please her
Cause I'd like to see her smile
And watch her eyes light up
Just like the morning sun
The day I met her I knew I never would forget her
So I bought a ring and put it on her finger
And I promised to my heart forever more and I would never take it back
And that's all I got to say about that

I'm just quiet I guess
Ain't got much on my chest
Try to keep a good name
I stay dry when it rains
Fish bite but they don't
But if you talk and they won't
So I'm saving my breath
For something worth being said

Like I love her and I need her
I'll do anything to please her
Cause I'd like to see her smile
And watch her eyes light up
Just like the morning sun
The day I met her I knew I never would forget her
So I bought a ring and put it on her finger
And I promised to my heart forever more and I would never take it back
And that's all I got to say about that

I promised to my heart forever more and I would never take it back
That's all I got to say about that