The Ones We Can't Get

The ones we can not get
A product of time and fate
Desire and hope
We reach out for them as a star
Like a star we know we will never reach it
If we got close to that star we would be burned
Our life would turn to ash
As it does many times when we get close
To the one we can't have
We want them because they are unattainable
They can not burn us because we can not reach
They teach us to reach out and climb higher
We can reach a mountain peak or walk on the moon
We are forced to go higher in the hope we will one day reach
The truth of the matter is
We wait until one day the light of that one we can not get reaches us
She brightens our day and chooses to be the light
The one that brightens our life.
The ones we can not have are not chosen by us
But if one day we have that one
It is because she chooses us.
I will try to be the perfect man
The one who makes her dreams come true
So that one day she chooses us
And our day is brightened by the light we could never have.