A Thief in the Night

Sean O’Kearney

She sneaks into your heart

A thief in the night

You don’t know she’s there until it’s too late

She takes your heart and leaves you with a kiss

And memories of burning nights between the sheets

She defies your love, won’t let you give it to her

Then picks it from your pocket

Give her everything she wants and it’s never enough

She doesn’t know what she wants

But she’ll take what she does from you

What is it you do to me?

Why won’t you let me in?

I think I see you for who you are

And it turns out to be another game

I’m lost in your maze

Your laughter leading me on

When will you let me win?

She’ll deny she wants your heart

And then remove it while you sleep

You can’t read her, see what her truth is

Because it changes all the time

But you still want it anyway

Show her the canvas of your soul and she yawns

Then steals it away to hang in her own private gallery

Mercurial in movement and feelings

You never know which way she’ll jump