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Open arms


When you were hurting
I had loved you with open arms
And I stood there 
Just in time
To grasp onto you
When I closed them
And when I was hurting
You stood there with open arms
But you closed them 
Sooner than I got the chance
To make it
Into yours
 
-m.c.-
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