You Could Be Mine
By: JoAnna Martin

In a time long ago and a place far away,
I fell in love so deep.
Now I have that feeling once again,
my mind wanders while I sleep.
When I first met you, I should’ve known
that it would be too late.
That someone else had already stolen your heart.
For us, it wasn’t fate.
But when I heard your voice and your tender words
I somehow already knew
that no matter what I did, I wouldn’t be able 
to stop from falling in love with you.
But unfortunately for me it’s an unrequited love,
a love that is not mutual.
The love I feel will always be more intense than yours
I guess we don’t have a future.
If you could only love me the way I love you,
things would work out fine.
We could set ourselves free-I could be yours
and you could be mine.


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