If You Were Here

I don’t know what you’d say if you were here.

I just know that it would make me feel better.

Just the sound of your voice takes me back to those silver shiver days.

Days when I was like a new born deer

Knock-kneed and shaky.

But I’m shaky again

And you’re so damn far away.

You’d probably sit me down on that soddy old couch.

You’d tell me to breathe.

You’d tell me some story to try and make me laugh.

Or maybe you’d tell me these tears are worthless.

That the spilling of them right now is senseless.

Maybe you’d slap me across the face with your words and make me get out of that place.

But I don’t know.

I don’t know.

I don’t know.

Because right now I wish you were here

And yet you’re thousands of miles away.

And I know I’ll be fine

But I can’t stand so straight in the night time.