By Alfred Brown
This is the poem where I finally got to use the sentence that had been rattling in my brain for a few years “Everything was fine until I got shot in the face.” I wrote it first sometime, probably around 2013, then I did some edits to it around 2014 or 2015. The intention with the edits was to make the poems into songs.
27 -i will never make you happy
I will never make you happy
I will never satisfy
I will never make you love me
No matter what i try
You will always be disappointed
In everything i do
My love connection is avoided
I cant get next to you
C:
I surrender i give up
And I won’t fight no more
I realize i need love
But you have none in store
Every night im wonderin how
I can make you see
That the time for us is now
A time for you and me
I seem to fail in every way
I try and give my heart
It wont matter what i say
It’s over before it start
I don’t think you’re a bad girl
You just don’t care
I have no place in your world
Wouldn’t notice me there
You need someone who can excite
If you can be enticed
Someone to make you thrill at night
If one man can suffice
I surrender i give up
And i won’t fight no more
You treat me so tough
Cause you think I’m a bore
28 -a note
I found a note on the floor
It didnt say who it was for
It might as well have been meant for me
I didnt know for whomelse it could be
So i read it silently aloud
A skill of which im very proud
And it said that they, he or she, rather
Loved me or another, person, him or her
C:
A note
On which was wrote
A phrase
That did me amaze
That is the note said i love you
Who was i, who was you, i never knew
But it pleased me just the same
Without knowing his or her name
The intended reader nor the writer neither
I wasn’t unhappy not knowing either
I was glad to hear that someone cared
And thus the sentiment was doubly shared
Just the thought of love gives me mirth
So i wrote a note for what it’s worth
That said i loved the person too
My note also said i love you
And if found by him or her or someone else
It is true even if i find it again myself
I do this all the time for fun
Chances are i wrote the first one
Coda:
I love you, i love you…