Don’t Awaken Love

Don’t awaken love until it’s time
till you’re sure that you can feed it
till you’ve got somewhere to keep it safe and dry
Cause that fruit can die upon the vine
when that early frost hits harder
and sooner than you thought and makes you cry.

let her sleep, let her go,
turn around and head back home.
You’ll come dusty down this road maybe tomorrow,
I don’t know.

Wide awake and questioning the silence
you could leave in search of someone
you could love, or maybe love her till she is.
Holding on, it takes a wiser man.
So many sirens in the distance
don’t even bear a fair resemblance once in hand.

So go to sleep, let it go.
You can’t hurt who you don’t know.
They’re all perfect till you know them,
and the knowing does the hurting.

The question in your eyes –
there are softer lies
then there’s the edited silence . . .

where we weigh the arrows in our hands.
We could drop them for protection,
or we can wound till neither one of us can stand.

Don’t awaken, love, until it’s time.
Let me get the coffee started
and maybe pray till my hardheartedness subsides.

Gentle thieves, bloody friends –
still I long to let you in.
I know I don’t understand;
maybe you could love me till I can.

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