Yesterday I saw you, like so many times before,
but you never even noticed, that I was trying to score.
Not "score" as used by teens today, I'm too old for that,
but score, as in score some points, like a player up to bat.

I have to make as many points, as game time will allow,
I have to try to win your heart, but I just don't know how.
I cannot walk right up to you, and tell you how I feel,
Not when you have the power, to crush me with your heel.

Not crush me physically I mean, but crush my fragile heart,
it couldn't take a hit from you, not even a little part.
I guess I'll just keep silent, and watch you every day,
Then at days end, I'll just go home, and waste my life away. 

I'll sit in lonely darkness, and watch Springer on TV,
and thank my stars that I'm not like the weird ones that I see.
I'll eat my TV dinner, and think of you some more,
then drink my booze to cloud my mind, and pass out on the floor.
 
I'll get up in the morning, and start the hurt anew,
I'll go to work and do my job, and dream my dreams of you.
Dreams are all I have now, that's all there'll ever be,
I wish that you would notice, and maybe dream of me.

But you're too sophisticated, too far beyond my reach,
you're the pretty ocean, and I am just the beach.
I wish that we could be like them, joined upon the shore,
then I could feel your warm caress, for now and evermore.

I hate these games, and games they are, where we have to try to win.
It all comes down to how we play, for hearts to let us in.
It shouldn't have to be this way, it hurts so deep inside,
Why can't I tell you how I feel, why do I run and hide?

Why can't I love, and tell you so, without fear of rejection.
Could it be because I'm flawed, and you are just perfection.
So I wrote this poem to tell you, but I know that I can't send it,
for if you knew just how I feel, you'd crush my heart and end it.

But I will always love you, even from afar,
and you will always be my girl, my lover, and my star.
I'll live my dreams, in my own way, if only in my head,
and I'll stop loving you some day, some day when I'm dead.

- Marv Hardin

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