Thursday, August 23, 2012

WHY DON'T YOU LOVE ME


My Mother was always a pretty girl
She was married at sixteen
My Father was her second Husband
He died when I was three

The next man my Mother married
I will remember and revile
All the promises he made to me
Were dismissed with an evil smile

~~~*Chorus*~~~
Mister why don’t you love me
What did I do this time
I wasn't talking loud
I wasn't making a sound
I did nothing this time
Why don’t you love me
When you know I could love you
And that all I ever want is
For someone to love me too
~~*~~

My new Father didn't last long
She said he was a Mama’s boy
I got down on my hands and knees
And prayed her next would want a little boy

But when I ran out to meet him
And he coldly looked at me
I knew that I’d been praying 
For something that could never be

~~~*Chorus*~~~
Mister why don’t you love me
What did I do this time
I wasn't talking loud
I wasn't making a sound
I did nothing this time
Why don’t you love me
When you know I could love you
And that all I ever want is
For someone to love me too
~~*~~

I grew up making trouble
I found pain lasts a good long time
Bitterness and resentment 
They were good friends of mine

As I sit here with my memories
It wouldn't seem quite real to me
If it weren't for that teary-eyed little boy
That cries out each night in my dreams…

~~~*Chorus*~~~
Mister why don’t you love me
What did I do this time
I wasn't talking loud
I wasn't making a sound
I did nothing this time
Why don’t you love me
When you know I could love you
And that all I ever want is
For someone to love me too
~~*~~

Oh…I knew they loved my Mother
I could see it in their eyes
If they would have cared enough to look
They would have seen the same in mine…

~~~*Repeat Chorus*~~~





Teresa Lynn Johnson
Wrdspnr@aol.com
 Copyright © 2012

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