In rural Bartholomew County
A woman oh there does live
That I would love to see
And anything to her give

Beautiful to me is she
Her eyes so glowing blue
Like waterfalls flow her hair
Her smile and feelings true

I long to feel her touch
And to hug her body sweet
To kiss her wanting lips
Would be so wondrous neat

To beside her always wake
And hold her close to me
I would anything do
To fully one day see

Would you let me take your worries?
To shoulder your stress as my own
To make the thoughts inside you cease
And alleviate the unrest that’s sown

Do you need someone to always be there?
Someone to hold you always close
To keep and protect forever
From waves of worries raging throes?

My shoulders I offer to you
To shed tears upon if you must
My heart and mind your burdens share
If you only give me that trust

What can I say about you tonight?
What can I do to give my thoughts flight?
Hoping that I can find the phrasing
To say that you’re simply amazing

Can this be coincidence?
This banter between us two?
I search for answers to questions
I search for those answers from you

If I were to ask questions
Am I of the answers scared?
Or do I seek all the truth
And so have my feelings bared?

Closest I feel I’ve ever been
To a woman when we talk
I do not wish for this to lose
So these questions do I block

If every time I thought of you
A piece of silver I did gain
Such a rich man I would be
As my thoughts I can not restrain

I think of time with you well spent
So fully sharing hopes and dreams
Away do fade our silly fears
For hope and faith in thought redeems

If I of you think ever not
My life would be with sadness fraught
My hope’s that do I my thoughts give
A love that nothing can outlive

I sit here alone in this room
Thinking of you, thinking of you
Through my addled head thoughts rushing
Feelings and dreams, madness ensues

You do I feel like I’m losing
Something that should never have been
I wish that these feelings would leave
But all they do is come again

So swept away by emotion
I never paused to think on this path
I followed thus to conclusion
Never reckoning the aftermath

I know we messed up royally
Doing something we shouldn’t
We did party way too hard
We didn’t know we couldn’t

For all the things that happened
And for those things that did not
I’m truly, truly sorry
To have put us in that spot

I need to make it up to you
I don’t know where I should start
Because the me you did see
Is not the one in my heart

I need to treat you with respect
That that night I did not show
Want to be the man I am
So this relationship grows

Promise now to just be me
And try not to ride the fence
For you, dear, are my Princess
And I want to be your Prince

‘Neath that strong exterior
Fragility does lie
Something you need not tell
It’s apparent in your eyes

Your bluster is a shield
From fears of the unknown
You need a protector
Against what has been sown

You’ve searched for years in vain
Sweet solace that you need
While all the while in pain
For that which you do plead

In deepest, darkest night
You cry for humble rest
Weariness taken away
So stills your aching breast

Protection offer I
To slake your unquenched thirst
And humbly do keep watch
Against your demons worst

If rest you do so seek
Against depression’s charms
I pray you find it meek
Within my open arms

Sitting in the bed
Memories float by
Much happier times
Remembered have I

Pleasant longing looks
Twinkle of the eye
Desire in a gaze
Heavy knowing sigh

Overhead a sky
Deepest darkest black
Punctured by the stars
Bleeding love I lack

Underneath, the soil
Spreads a blanket blue
Lovers hand in hand
Spy the retinue

Constellations seen
Gazing into night
Night turns into day
With the morning’s light

Gaze into your eyes
With azure like hue
Want to spend my time
With this woman, you

If you ever spy
Or dream this unbound
Know this one thing true
I’ll be always ’round

Do you want me to say that I love you?
Are those the words that you’re needing to hear?
If me saying that is all it would take
I would gladly say it to you, my dear

But things have not progressed unto that point
Deep inside my fettered and feeble mind
To say those things to you and mean them not
Is something that would be so, so unkind

As slowly my emotions upward come
To seek release in their proper forum
Strength and courage hope I to have someday
Deep and meaningful words of love to say
I’ll loose the dam of emotions inside
To nevermore my deepest feelings hide