Apricots - Poema

If I could find a way to fix one thing in my past

Could I change everything if I gave us a second chance

Remember you would drop by just to say hello

Remember talking by the porch light about a love we used to know

Oh how I wish that I’d stayed when you asked me to

Instead I lied to myself saying there were things I had to do

When you heard the gate lock

You knew you couldn’t make me stay so

You walked me over to the bus stop

I should have never turned away

But if you’re walking down that old road, you know what to do

Walk down just past the apricot grove to the pond where we used to

Whisper things that nobody knew

And we would make pretend we could capture the light of the moon

Never realized what I’d found

In that apricot town

Years down the road I found

You had moved to the city

I told myself you’d call

Thinking oh he loved me once didn’t he

All the months I waited from the autumn to the fall

Finally the memories faded but I could not lose them all

And how would you look at me now

If you ever found I decided to come back around

When I say my last prayer and I finally make it home

I would be waiting there in the spot we used to call our own

I’d remember that way that I feel now

I’ll meet there someday in our apricot town