I DON'T KNOW HOW

I DON’T KNOW HOW

I don't know how to give up on love when you don't want to stay.

I don't know how to quit on love; I don't know how to just walk away.

I don't know how to stop the dreams that haunt me while I sleep.

I don't know how to ignore the feelings inside of me that run so deep.

I don't know how to give up on you being in my life.

I don't know how to quit on a friend and a lover that could have been my wife.

I don't know how to turn love off like it is a faucet.

I don't know how to stop all these things; I don't know how to just quit.

I don't know how to give up on a soul when that soul was my every goal.

I don't know how to quit playing this role without it taking its toll.

I don't know how I will stop all this pain.

The rest of my life looks like it will be nothing but cloudy and rain.

I don't know how to give up on all the plans that were made.

I don't know how to quit wishing you were here, that you had stayed.

I don't know how to stop wanting you.

You're the only one I think about the whole day through.

I don't know how to give up on ever seeing you again.

I don't know how to quit being your lover and just be your friend.

I don't know how to stop wondering what I did that made it so easy for you to walk away.

I can't stop wondering, what if I could know what I know now and have one more day.

I don't know how to give up on ever again holding you close.

I reach out to put my arms around you, but you've become a ghost.

I don't know how to quit wanting to feel your heart beating next to my heart.

I don't know how to get use to always being apart.

I don't know how to give up on my lips caressing your lips.

I don't know how to give up on the way you make my heart beat skip.

I don't know how to quit wanting you always on my mind.

I don't know how to stop believing that for my life you are the tie that binds.

I don't know how to give up on this life I was living.

I don't know how to stop the memories of when life was so giving.

I don't know how to stop feeling that I had something that was sent from above.

I don't know how you gave up on me and turned your back on love.

STANLEY HENDRIX

 11/8/09

 My book of poems "DEEP DARK SECRETS" is available online at WWW.PUBLISHAMERICA.COM, WWW.BOOKSAMILLION.COM, WWW.BARNESANDNOBLE.COM, WWW.AMAZON.COM,and WWW.BORDERS.COM