One Good Reason – Dave-Michael Valentine

One Good Reason

One good reason to get out of bed.

Give me one good reason to breathe.

One good reason to believe the promises

You whispered back to me.

One good reason…

That’s all I need.

I believed you when you said

There’d never be another.

We built tomorrow with our hands,

Then watched it disappear.

I never saw the cracks beneath

The picture we had made.

Funny how forever

Can unravel in a day.

Give me…

One good reason…

To keep believing

Love still lives.

One good reason…

To stop looking backward.

One good reason…

To begin again.

Was it always in your plans

To leave before the story’s done?

Or did we simply lose ourselves

One little piece at a time?

I’m not asking you to stay

If your heart has already gone.

I’m only trying to remember

Who I was before the fall.

Maybe broken isn’t broken…

Maybe broken’s just a place

Where tomorrow

Finds a way

To let the light

Back in.

Give me…

One good reason…

And maybe

I’ll find another.

One becomes two…

Two becomes hope…

Hope becomes life.

Sometimes…

That’s enough.

Copyright 1983 Dave-Michael Valentine. All Rights Reserved.

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