Your Fault or Mine

Well I'm not sure
If it's night or day
The blinds are shut, curtains pulled tight
A faint tune floats in the air
The voice of a man and his guitar
A song of pain, a song of loss
And how I wondered
What led him there
I thought about it
Closed my eyes
My memory kicked into overdrive
I crawled back into time
And asked myself
Was it your fault or mine

I will say that I'm no one
Nothing special, just no one
Ordinary, plain and true
And I'll admit that I fell for you
You'd never see me on magazines
Every picture I take comes out fuzzy
And I doubt that I would be
A man of fortune; a man of pride
But I would have just loved you
More than anyone ever could
And I would never be
A great inventer or a public icon
I let my coffee go cold
But I still sip away
I have big dreams that I'll never see
And I hardly catch a fish from the Ohio
But I would have loved you
More than anyone could
You'd have been my world
My one true dream

Now you're just words on a page
Faded fragments of my memory
That want so desperately to see the light again
To be talked about, thought of, smiled upon
And I can't seem to figure out
Who deserves what
Maybe if I had told you what I was up to
There'd be more to the story and we wouldn't
Feel so crushed
After weeks of not knowing
What had happened
I felt myself slipping
And never needed you more
So I kept on asking
Was it your fault or mine

Did I deserve it
Was I asking for a slap in the face
When I said hello
Or have you forgotten
How time went to a stop
When we'd be together
Was it your mistake
Or was it mine
I know I'm not a rock star
Or a mindless drinker
I have fun all on my own
Skipping rocks across a pond
Building fires, burning marshmallows
Singing songs and forgetting the words
And I could have held onto
The things that you held so true
I could have held you
I'd have loved you
More than anyone ever could

Reviews

[Kasey]

Wow. That was amazing. I have to confess that I'm not the biggest poetry fan. So many people can make them confusing and I get lost, but you have a way with words that flows magically. And, in my opinion, that's the key to great poems.

Thank you for the post, I really enjoyed reading it.