Baby Couldn’t Wait

Still trying hard to understand

Waiting in a foreign land

For a lover’s hand

To hold on to

A few more weeks is all it needs

To find a way across the seas

Arriving on the breeze

Then happiness

But baby said she couldn’t wait

Life’s too hard for her to take

Decisions she would make

Give up her dream

She couldn’t do it all alone

Needed someone of her own

To make a working home

And share her life

She turned away her gaze

From all the different ways

That pointed to her destiny

Cried for her head had told

Not what her heart did hold

Not what her dreams said should be

So took a step back in her past

Found someone within her grasp

Someone who didn’t last

The time before

Then packaged up her dream for good

Said goodbye as best she could

Still wondering if it would

Have ever been

And far away her lover prays

Plans erased of better days

So home he stays

©Copyrighted by Colin Ryan (2010)