The singer in the song I’m listening to
is singing about how he “can’t fight
this feeling anymore” because he,
for whatever reasons, is fighting
against falling in love.
I conjecture that maybe he’s been
hurt one time too many or fears
losing what he sees as a loss
of his freedom.
Whatever the case that song,
Can’t Fight This Feeling by
REO Speedway is one of
my all time favorites
Then he sings that the woman
he is becoming increasingly enamored
with is like a candle in the window
in what seems like his toughest times.
And I realize I’ve forgotten about
fighting those feelings, as if they’re
dead, waked, and buried in a
graveyard of forgotten memories
in the depths of this old man’s head.
But I let those feelings pass by
in the rivers of thoughts and
speculations that flow
profusely through my ever
thinking and imaginative mind.
And I finish this poem listening to
another guy singing about
how he “just doesn’t want
to be lonely.”
Bob Boyd