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| Metals 'N' Roses by Nkaiferi Ifiok |
It’s never so easy to fall in love
So when you do you never want to set it free
You hold on for what you hope will be forever,
Even when the love is turning awry
Even when feelings flow unilateral,
Letting go is far from the option
You think you see her desire to let it flow
Despite her dam holding back the tide
That wall is a chasm but you believe,
“ She’s fighting her feelings is all i’tis ”
None of it do you want to understand
All you desire is let her fall
Everything you think you can; I do
Giving even nights before your finals
But shear persistence is not enough
To burst or break that bloody wall
He begs and pleas, “tell me please!”
But all she says is the silent *mum*
So decide you do to let her go,
Set free a love that you feel so strong
She says she’s sad letting you out the door
A glimpse reveals it’s truth in her eyes
For an instant a tear she can’t control,
Flows from behind that massive wall
You catch its glint as she turns to hide,
Just before you shut the door goodbye
It’s too late ‘cuz for now, you’re off!
And without a doubt not turning back
But what really cut my soul so deep,
Was that you never let him steal from your lips
Even a kiss to set my soul at peace,
That one kiss that would have never let him leave
Every time that I came close to you
Face to face, with your back to the wall
It was your racing heart that I always did feel,
Beating against my chest like “this is it.”
But whenever he leaned in to get a taste
You’d beg him not to comply
You’d beg him with that tear in your eye
With your hand hard on his chest, "just let me go"
Fast forward three years to the third of March
The day I think you stole my breath away
Three years and boarders yet he couldn’t believe
A woman made him forget to breathe
But not a second's care did I give,
As we disappeared into that moment's tide
And if it decided, never to end
How perfect forever would have been
But still I knew better,
that was just the beginning,
of the end…
of the end…
