Well, they say that man creates his own destruction
I tend to agree
I have run from pastors, patriarchs, and truncheons
But I can’t run from me
No, I can’t run from me

But nothing in this world
Will make me forget you, girl
Not one damn thing in this whole wide world
Is ever gonna make me forget you, girl
They say “hush, hush, hush”…
…but this was more than a crush.

When we found each other drifting in the darkness
Our hearts in our hands
You were sunlight in the void so black and starless
We spent through our sands
Those ever-shifting sands

But nothing in this world
Will make me forget you, girl
Not one damn thing in this whole wide world
Is ever gonna make me forget you, girl
They say “hush, hush, hush”;
But girl, I miss you so much

No, nothing in this world
Will make me forget you, girl
Not one damn thing in this whole wide world
Is ever gonna let me forget you, girl
They say “hush, hush, hush”;
I still remember your touch.

© Kurt Riley, 2016.