You Don't Know What Love Is

 

You Don't Know What Love Is

You don't know what pain is

Till your heart's been sliced in two

You don't know what tears are

Till it's turned your brown eyes blue

You don't know how rain stings

Till it's rained inside your heart

You don't know how wholeness feels

Till your soul's been ripped apart.

You don't know, will never know

How my love cries out to you

You, who left me easily

And never loved me true.

You don't know the sunshine

For you never liked the day

You only liked the midnight

When your love came out to play

Look at me. Look at me, boy!

See the heartbreak in my eyes

See the longings I still have for you

Though you only gave me lies

If I could hear just one sweet word

It would mend my heart, I think

But our love was like the Titanic

Doomed, destined to sink

You look at me and wink your eye

Like it's all a silly game

You say you miss me and mentally thumb

Your black book for my number and name

"Oh, sweet girl!" you say and give me a whirl

In the rain on the street by the tree

Where our lips first touched and I loved you so much

When you carved that big heart there for me

And I think of the day when like school children at play

We yelled "She's my love and I am just his!"!

But to a scoundrel you turned and my heart crashed and burned

Realizing that you don't know what love is.

©by Voo Shining Stone

1/2021