I was Blind to Love

It's an intrusion of my privacy an ire of my past,
somehow it feels like life is really fading so fast.
Yet, friendships are many and the regrets are so few,
I'm still hounded by memories of a life I knew.

Confidence used to fill my every sky,
Like the eagles-I felt I could fly.
Then somewhere reality dealt me a blow,
I found out how much I really didn't know.

I was blind to love-chasing after my deep inner rage,
Nobody told me that I needed to turn another page.
I was blind to love-While it looked me in the eye,
My mind was in denial-My head was in the sky.

I looked to the East and I looked to the West,
It seemed to me there was never any rest.
Always on the move-In the world to roam,
Never finding the place my heart called home.

there was a time when it was hard to be me,
lonliness was a state I really didn't want to see.
So I sought a place where I wasn't so hellbent,
And I stayed there until I learned how to be content.

I was blind to love-yet, I came to realize,
I had been looking into one too many eyes.
I was blind to love-yet, Love was always with me,
I had only to look into my heart to see.

written by Donald James Kirby Von Koehler    7-17-2005