So, you’re back again
Lord, tonight I feel like you are going to drive me insane
Because I still don’t have enough game to approach you.
And I am still too shy to directly look at you
Lord, what am I going to do?
Because I think I am too nervous to be around someone as gorgeous as you.
So I retire to my corner
Strategically placed so I could periodically glance over
From the darkness to light.
Is it only me that sees the halo that shines so bright around you?
You have me like a stalker
Not much of a talker
But a looker
I’m looking at you from in front, behind and all over.
Back, front and centre
I’m noting the top you wearing, the shoes you stepping
By now I have to stop myself from blatantly gaping and
Dribbling
You see, I’m noting
Everything
But then I always have to snap back to reality
And remember that you already have somebody to call ‘Baby’.
Now I’m getting angry
Not with you, but with me
Because I just can’t seem to approach you
And the thing is...I really really want too.
I have practiced conversations aplenty
And in those daydreams, you were actually quite friendly
But i admit, I’m just too scared to even say it.
But wait- my thoughts keep getting the better of me
It always has to hit me
You still have somebody
And that somebody is not me.
You see, your smile could light up a blacked out city
Your presence could send anyone weak in the knee
And it’s been 3 years now that you have me falling slowly.
The richness of your skin could feed an impoverished country
And when you walk...and when you talk...
It’s like the earth stands still.
Like the calm before a kill
And I can’t wait till I get some courage
Because to you I will serenade feelings
Unable to link words together to get true meaning
Because I’m only stuttering
And I know that I’m ignoring you right now
But what’s new?
I always do
But even to approach you,
You need to tell me how too.
Because my feet are stuck
And my eyes are still in shock
That I even have the luck of seeing you tonight.
But now in me you have started a fight
Because my mind is talking
But my body is not moving.
But again daydreams are jagged cut with the reality that
When you go home in the night
You still have somebody to call your baby.
And she is not me.
So now that you are not in front of me
Let me take this opportunity to talk my mind
Because we all know that I’m not the kind
To approach you and tell you all the things that I really want to.
Jah really knew what he was doing when he created you
And I mean, he did a damn fine job too!
You have my tongue twisting like a corkscrew
And by now i don’t know if you get the clue
I just want you to smile at me when I smile at you.
You are the creature that has me bazodee
The body that constantly tantalizes me
Hair that falls so gracefully.
Each lock tells a story of pure beauty.
Now you have me rambling and sounding crazy
But this is what you do to me.
Have me rendered speechless
I can’t talk, don’t know what to say.
I just know that today is definitely not my day.
Probably later. Maybe another day
Hopefully one day.
But until then, my knees remain weak.
Still don’t know how to speak
But I continue to peak glances
And take my chances of watching you.
Till then I’ll listen to heavens that open
And play cantatas and sonatas and operas
When you are around.
I will continue to feel the reggae beat that I hear
When you move your lips and feet
And observe the movement of your hair and hold this image dear to my memory
So that later in my dreams, you will keep me company.
I will remember your teeth, like white lilies between lips
And the song of your hips.
Tattooed into deep rooted tips of my fantasy.
But then it always comes back to me.
Nothing could erase the fact reality that
You already have somebody to call your baby.
And she is not me.
© 2010
Dedicated to my muse