Letter Never Sent - Jamie Lawson

There’s a letter that you never sent

You wrote about an accident

Of love and of you and of me and how we all collided

In that letter that I never read

I thought about what it might’ve said

The fates and the stars and how hearts like ours can be guided

How long can it take to write a few lines on a coffee break?

Say «Hey old man, how’s things?

How are you feeling?»

Maybe I’ll write you instead, say «thank you for the words I read

How I hope that you meant every letter that you never sent»

In that letter that you never wrote

You talk about how you used to quote

Poems and prose of somebody called Dorothy Parker

In that letter that I never read

I remember how you once said

Love is a volt like lights but sometimes it’s darker

And how long can it take to write a few lines on a coffee break?

Say «Hey old man, how’s things?

Are you still smiling?»

Oh I’m gonna write you instead, say «thank you for the words I read

How I hope that you meant every letter that you never sent

Oh for the love that you lent in the letters that you never sent»

In the letters that you never sent

In all the letters that you never sent

In all the letters that you never sent

You never sent