Another Damned Morning

Another Damned Morning

I love the way you smile when half-awake

And curl your arms around me at daybreak

To try to hold me back from being gone,

At least until the morning news is on.

The weather isn't bad enough to make me stay,

I have to go to work another day

And leave you there in bed alone again

And grumbling that this all gives you a pain.

I hate to get up too; I wish that I

Could cuddle up and stretch my arms and lie

Beside you for at least a day or so

But we both need the money, we both know,

So we forego the love we'd love to make,

Being so much aroused while half-awake.