ONLY IF YOU KNEW

by Derrick L. Ruffin

Is it a dream of passion?

Or is it a dream of fate

Not to hear your voice each day

Is like not living for myself

But to you, I say to you

As I know you belong to someone else

I know I am better for you

And still, I cannot have you

For you are a married woman

Being abused emotionally, mentally, and physically

By a man who care nothing for the human soul

Yet alone not caring for the BLACK WOMAN

I say to you, my shade of rich chocolate

We are destined to be together

If only you can see that love is blind

Like the winds of time, forever and ever

As I fall for you, I know you will pick me up

With your passionate and endless love

But with a demented obstacle standing before us

I still know there is a chance

I see you around town putting on a front

Ah, yes, I am aware that you are suffering

He pleases you only when he is around his friends

And not caring to know if you have an opinion

Only if you knew; I cannot express my words

For I have much more respect for you than he

For I can communicate better than he

For I am more HUMAN than he

I dream of looking in your eyes

Only if you can see the sun by day and night

For which I stand alone and you are absent from my side

Only if you knew, you will someday, someday, someday...

Only If You Knew © 1997 Derrick L. Ruffin