I didn’t know that it was love <br /> or how I felt about you, <br />but now I know cos I can’t go <br /> a single day without you. <br /> <br /> I thought I’d outgrown all that stuff, <br />clock-watching, heart a-flutter, <br /> I thought I’d grown aloof and tough, <br /> but you melt me like butter. <br /> <br /> I never knew that I went through <br /> each day without a cause, <br /> slowly vegetating fast <br /> behind a wall of doors. <br /> <br />I didn’t know there’d be such joy <br />to cushion each day’s end <br />knowing I have got and am <br />a very special friend. <br /> <br />And I’d forgotten what it meant <br />with no what, why or wherefore, <br />to know that each tomorrow means <br />there’ll be someone to care for <br /> <br />Now there’s one thing I’m certain of <br />with knowing what I do. <br />I never could go back to how <br />I was, when without you.<br /><br />Terry Donovan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/know-going-back/
