Why In My Way

Why did you stand in my way

Whenever I loved

Look where it got me

Look where it went

Why did you stand in my way

Whenever those moments of joy

Frightened you

Look where it got me

Look where they went

They became something more

They loved and lost and loved

They gained

I lost

Why did you stand in my way

  

Currency

I took your gifts

at the dawning

Enough to fill

an innocent

Freely

just to be

But the gifts you never told

were only on loan

A love freezer burned

Currency, laundered

  

Spin

Slanted,
your view

isn't the only spin

Trying to make me spin

around

and around again

to your view

The path you've hewn

in a straight line

upward

I'm not sorry

for my angle

shifting

away