By sweetness
Date: 2001 Nov 22
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It Figures

For countless years he loved her
and never said a word,
her eyes the only eyes he saw
her voice was all he heard.
He let her live her life her way
he stood by and cheered her on
he swallowed his joy the day he learned
her lover had up and gone.
He vowed no more, this silence
no more keeping his feelings inside.
On his way to her house to tell her his hopes
he got hit by a truck and died