Freckled Fences

Marching in circles, residues of you shape how memories are so misconstrued, like tossing jacks in the yellow, spring sun, dropping freckles one by one; spying a time through ole metal fencing when love like yours was so convincing. Irresistible reminders of long ago days when I was so special, not just a phase.

Marching in circles to void out my pain, marching in circles in sweet floral rain.

The borders are up, the boundaries in place yet how I'll always reflect your sunshiny face. I once had a pencil I wrapped up to send so I could feel your letters and remember your hands. The girl who believed in you so is hidden behind a woman you no longer know, and never will find. To imagine sunlight in your ageless eyes, the never shared longing for unsaid good-byes.

Marching in sadness, averting the space, my heart holds forever and can never erase. I looked for holes in the chain linked fence, for ways to reclaim us, or ways to commence. I know you are broken, that you want to believe that all is forgiven, it's just up to me. You created a new life built on lies, let others berate me, filled them with lies. You chose to abandon your own little girl who hung onto you tight in her own little world.

Some days are heavier than I'd like, waiting for grace to grant me a sunny sweet life. Dreams have faded where you'd become, a perfect Dad, just as you are to the other ones. Truth comes out, they say in the end, there'll always be fences, some we can't mend.

Marching in circles to void out my pain, marching in circles in sweet floral rain.

Marching in circles singing the la-la song, I remember your secrets from dust till dawn. Little me spies through the gaps in an ole crooked fence where I once waited for you to just catch a glimpse. Freckles we share like spots of time, where I was yours and you were mine.

Marching in circles, residues of you shape how memories are so misconstrued, like tossing jacks in the yellow, spring sun, dropping freckles one by one; spying a time through ole metal fencing when love like yours was so convincing. Irresistible reminders of long ago days when I was so special, not just a phase.