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karleigh Nov 2015
i called to say i love you
about a hundred times
however
what it cost
was more than just a dime

standing at the payphone
i told myself i would
tell you all the things
i never really thought i could
like the way i love your smile
how you laugh
and how you sing
the way you make me feel
so i tell you everything
my secrets and my faults
my hopes and all my dreams
sometimes i think of us
is it not really what it seems?

"i called to say i love you
and you didn't know it then
but now i tell u things
how i felt it there and then"

you didn't speak a word
so i hung up the phone
sitting in the bus station
crying all alone

the bell rang from the door
tears falling from my eyes
i looked up from within my hands
had all i thought was true,
truly been a lie?

but there he ran to me
"i came to say i love you,
and i've waited for the time
because the truth is, darling
i want to call you mine"

he knelt there down before me
from his pocket there he had
an opened small black box
the tears now all but sad

"you called to say you love me
but here now we are
i love you more than all the world,
the moon and all the stars"

and so i answered yes
and he kissed me like i'd dreamed
the truth was written on our hearts
it was always as it seemed
karleigh Nov 2015
she speaks
the language of the world
deep within the sea
she shares her secrets
high above the clouds
she tells her story to the stars
she speaks

the language of the world
to the wind she whispers willingly
her wonders
to the universe
she asks,
"what is love?"
she speaks

the language of the world
however
not even she knows
nor the sea
the stars
not even the wind
speak
the greatest mystery
  Nov 2015 karleigh
Gabby Gallone
You
You are my biggest yes-
and my strongest no.
karleigh Oct 2015
she sleeps
with nothing
to eat
to hold
to comfort
to love
to thank God for
to regret
she sleeps
alone
her family sleeps
unknown
she sleeps
she dreams
karleigh Oct 2015
the time i met her
under the bridge
a winter afternoon
Brooklyn
the chill in the air
3:23
i can feel it
like just a few moments ago
i can see it all again
come back
i hope
3:23
the lust
has pulled her away
from the girl i met
and i promised her the world ,
the one she took away
with her
at
3:23
karleigh Oct 2015
lost

he left her heart
on the train
underneath the newspaper
he never thought to read
busy thinking about
the vagabond life
questioning the theory
of love
how and why
where and when

and so he got off that train
without that newspaper
left it where he left it
and took a train to Boston
27 hours away from mile high
the cold heart he left
underneath that newspaper
in window seat
of the 15th row
on the train

3 years later he got on a train
looking for her heart
gone
without it
where would he find it, that he
once lost
only hope resides
on the train he now would take
28 hours
1 past mile high
to the house he knew that heart would be

where do lost things go?
not back from whence they came-
of course-
to where they belong

so he got on the train back to Boston
and there it was
the heart
of the woman he lost
found reading the paper he had never thought to read
sitting in the window seat
of the 15th row
on the train

found
karleigh Oct 2015
my journey
(the one i hope will lead to you)
began such sixteen years ago and so
it is today
in which i found it to be true

i shall navigate uncharted seas
cross deserts old and new
of all the places i will go
will be from where i write to you


around the world
in search of all your lessons
your stories and your truths
all of which i've read
180 pages
of words i write to you

if  nothing is impossible
it is you who i turn to
wherever my heart is
will be where i find my treasure
and so i write to you
thank u paulo coelho
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