How Can This Be?

Posted by Brad Osborne on January 26, 2023 · 16 Comments 

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I see you

But we have never met

I hear you

But we have never spoken

I feel you

But we have never embraced

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How do I reconcile feelings

Borne solely in the imagination

Where all I hope exists as true

And reality gives its resignation

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I dream of you

But I have only a face to see

I want you

But only in the safety of inaction

I need you

But I don’t know what you need

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Is this connection truly real

Does love always find a path

Or is this the heart of a lonely man

Messing with his head for a laugh

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I am smitten

But that may be an easy thing

I am enchanted

But by all that I have dreamed

I want to love you

But I don’t want to fall for my lies

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