Soya Sauce

Why do allow myself

To get carried away

With myself?

These unfounded fears

Scare me to death

Why do I allow myself

To worry for no reason?

Why do I allow

pessimism to permeate my soul?

Maybe I haven't forgiven myself

For leaving the door wide open

Letting the cold chill settle

My feet are like blocks of ice

My problems are like grains of rice

I need some soya sauce

To give my life some flavor

Something I can savor

When you are gone

Even though you want to come back

And I would be happy if you came back

But you have much to do

As I have much to do

Maybe next time will be different

Maybe next time will be better

If we could plan a little

Save time for later

So that I know that we are still ok

And that today is not a sequel

To yesterday

I don't want to carry this over

I've always been worse at math

I can't get these things to add up

To anything

But I will keep trying

If you still want to try

I will make the promise

That I'll leave it alone

And not think you're out to hurt me

That I'll let it work itself out

For the sake of all things mentioned

For the sake of all things

We hope for

I'll promise I'll never ask you

If you promise to keep telling me

That things are still ok

Between us