Happy \u2018n Sad<\/p>\n
You ask how I am, well, happy \u2018n sad
\nA strange mix of sorrow and glad
\nHappy for the time that we shared
\nSad in a way that so much I cared.<\/p>\n
Happy to have held you in my arms
\nTo have had a glimpse of your charms.
\nSad that you\u2019re now not around
\nTo bring me the joy I only just found.<\/p>\n
Happy we had the chance to meet
\nAnd for you to sweep me off my feet.
\nSad that our time was all so brief
\nAnd that without you there\u2019s grief.<\/p>\n
Happy to have shared the laughter
\nTo know clearly it\u2019s you I\u2019m after.
\nSad to accept you\u2019ll never be mine
\nTo share with me roses and wine.<\/p>\n
Happy to know that I can still learn
\nFor someone like you I can still yearn.
\nSad that it\u2019s just not to be
\nThose joyful thoughts of \u201cyou and me\u201d.<\/p>\n
Happy to have known a girl like you
\nTo dream of all that we could do.
\nSad that I\u2019ll not find another
\nWho\u2019s just like you \u2013 why bother?<\/p>\n
Happy to be moved to quiver and shake
\nOh, the crazy fool you did make.
\nSad that it\u2019s gone almost before it came
\nNever be together \u2013 oh, what a shame.<\/p>\n
Happy that I can still see your face
\nIn everywhere you were in my place.
\nSad that you\u2019re not still there
\nFor me to show how much I care.<\/p>\n
Happy when I think of your smile
\nOver broken glass, I\u2019d walk a mile.
\nSad to know it doesn\u2019t much matter
\nThoughts of you are just idle chatter.<\/p>\n
Happy to have felt the touch of your lips
\nLike from a fine wine, sharing a few sips.
\nSad that we cannot share a kiss
\nTo cradle your face, that I do miss.<\/p>\n
Happy I\u2019m not as cold as I thought
\nA woman to love I have not sought.
\nSad that the one that I found
\nIs so far away and never around.
\nHappy to dream she might care for me
\nIn a different place and time it just might be
\nSad that we won\u2019t get a chance
\nTo live, love laugh and dance.<\/p>\n
Happy to know the feel of your touch
\nTo come to life and sense so much
\nSad it was only for a few days
\nAnd that you could affect me in so many ways.<\/p>\n
Happy to hear the sound of your voice
\nTo think that together was really a choice.
\nSad that for you it\u2019s just not right
\nAnd you\u2019ll live you life out of my sight.<\/p>\n
Happy when my thoughts are of you
\nTo even consider we might be two
\nSad when I know it\u2019s not to be
\nThere\u2019s little hope for a \u201cyou and me\u201d.<\/p>\n
Happy when the phone rings \u2013 it\u2019s you!
\nTo share the laughter as only we do.
\nSad that it will not go on forever.
\nWill I ever forget you? No never!<\/p>\n
Happy your sunshine was mine for a while
\nTo make me whole again and make me smile.
\nSad that love lost is better than none
\nNo matter what, your heart I\u2019d not won.<\/p>\n
Happy to know that for you I do write
\nThoughts that come in the depths of the night
\nSad that my dreams of you
\nAre no more than that, whatever I do.<\/p>\n
Happy to think you\u2019ll always make time
\nFor me to share my thoughts in rhyme.
\nSad to think you might want me to quit
\nThat you make me stop will hurt quite a bit.
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\nHappy that you are still in my life
\nThinking I\u2019d lost you would cut like a knife.
\nSad that we never gave it a chance
\nTo see if there could have been romance.<\/p>\n
Happy that you sound like you\u2019re doing so well.
\nBut if you are truly happy I cannot tell.
\nYou\u2019re focused on a career that\u2019s important to you
\nBut sad that it\u2019s costing you a love so true.<\/p>\n
Happy that the strong girl is earning her dreams
\nThat nothing will stand in the way, it seems.
\nSad that the soft little girl who lives inside
\nCame out for such a brief time, but she tried.<\/p>\n
Happy that she knows I\u2019ll always care
\nWherever life takes her, no matter where.
\nSad that she is now so far away
\nAnd that forever she could not stay.<\/p>\n
Happy in hoping our paths may again cross
\nNot to dance and laugh would be such a loss
\nSad that her path may take her away forever
\nNot get to blade in Vancouver, maybe never?<\/p>\n
Happy to believe it will happen some day
\nAnd that somehow we\u2019ll find a way
\nHappy to think she\u2019ll come back in my life
\nAnd I\u2019ll forever dream of her being my, ah, friend.<\/p>\n
Love,<\/p>\n
Gary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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