If Only

If Only

I know you’ve heard it all before

Someone going through betrayal’s door

It makes you wonder what all the pain is for

You know a broken heart will shake you to the core,

With the illusion of a poet

If only I’d known it

I crystal haze fell on a delicate flower

Like my recollections both sweet and sour

Sitting lonely in the midnight hour

Like a spirit with magical powers,

Foolishly I believed in her based upon her words

Only to suffer the hazards

Feeling like my heart had been cut into thirds

Should have been looking forwards instead of backwards,

With the illusion of a poet

If only I’d known it

I keep making this future list

Hoping to once again be kissed

But somehow it seems the serpent has already hissed

I can see by the blood on my fist,

To think I brought this all upon me

Would never set me free

Trying just to get at the truth was never my cup of tea

Oh, Lord let me take a knee,

With the illusion of a poet

If only I’d known it.