Book of Fiction

Book of Fiction - Shannon Curtis

Don't stand so close to me

We make electricity

And it would help if you'd say something

Instead of staring at me with those eyes

It's getting harder for me to disguise

That I'd like to feel your lips on mine

Maybe in another country

Maybe on a distant shore

Maybe if I'd made a left instead

Or wandered through a different door

Maybe on a faraway planet

In a futuristic time

Maybe in a book of fiction I'd have been yours

Don't be so interesting

Or smart and kind and funny

I'm having trouble remembering

Why I can't just walk over and say

Whatcha doing the rest of the day

How about you and me run away

Maybe in an ancient temple

On the sound of unheard prayer

Maybe if I'd answered yes instead

Or followed a whim somewhere

Maybe in a mountain kingdom

Where the people speak in rhyme

Maybe in a book of fiction I'd have been yours

The story goes like this

We meet and then we kiss

And then it goes how stories go

Till happily it ends

Maybe in an argo vessel

In the light of the farthest star

Maybe we'll be born again someday

And I'll remember who you are

Maybe on a desert island

In an era before our time

Maybe in a book of fiction I'd have been yours

And you'd have been mine

Maybe in a book of fiction you'd have been mine