LOVE IS NOT FOR ME
Love is none but pain and sorrow,
Love is grief and tears.
Love is poison that affects you
Slowly through the years.
Once love gets a hold on you,
It won't set you free.
Love is fatal happiness.
Love is not for me.
She and I were just good friends,
We then became much more.
I started feeling things for her
I never had felt before.
Sad, dark eyes on the midnight train. . .
That's the last I'd see.
Then it was I realized
Love is not for me.
To see and love her once again-
That dream can't come true.
Her best friend said she'd married off-
That's not what made me blue.
To hold her in my arms once more-
That can never be.
No matter how much I deny it,
Love is not for me.
Loneliness is my companion;
We will never part.
What I know is none can mend
This my broken heart.
Love will permanently scar you.
Love's a parody
Of happiness and loneliness.
Love is not for me.
--Layson Williams, 1988