Your pain is far away I hear it But I do not feel it Move closer Let me know you’re here to stay
How do you measure pain? All is relative and personal Even with one’s own self It is impossible to compare As memory distorts pain
I spend all my time Fighting with you In my head If we fought At least it would be
Filler words Put me to sleep Added to cushion Take away my pillow Blunt words to wake up
Scratchy plaid blanket Red with yellow stripes Hot and itchy underneath Claustrophobia strikes Purple and blue prisms
Good secret Bubbles inside Let me out Bad secret Indigestion
Are you ever tired Of just being you? Did you ever Want to be Someone new?
Tomorrow Has not yet come It’s promises yet to be broken Tomorrow Is bigger
I cannot let you hold my happiness For your hand to caress or to drop It is not healthy It is not safe For your happiness to depend on an… I’m taking it back but no longer r…
The teenage rebels All fall in line Be they hippies Goths, rockers or skaters Moving from one mould
I look away Afraid to see Flicker of nerves In their eye A clench
My poems are short Written at night In my head I wake at dawn Shake my memory
I had it all In my head And then I said Words I do not know which ones
A fresh faced country girl Who pioneers on her bicycle Catches the eye Of a transplant from Houston Love begins through letters
Does it hurt? When you prick your finger No I do this just for fun Our fingers lose feeling
