The Great Escape - Amelia

The great escape never came like the movies

No brave attempt to scale the fence,

Never who he ever wanted to be

So he lies awake and thinks

with a half a mind to break away

The starts and ends

and the time she spends in the middle

Is the dullest pain,

but she won’t complain just a little

and the house is a mess

So she lies awake and waits

For the love that got away

It’s cold outside but here, it was better

A shelter while the years grew together

For could-have-beens and beauty in decline