(2013)
All that I know how to do is write about death without dying and write about life
So much time passes without feeling a single thing that I think I would give anything
I awoke in the dark next to you and more alone than ever I was amazed to hear your heart beating from
Loving you was never sweet like the taste of vanilla the way I thought it was supposed to be It was more like
Just when I get back on my feet you pass on by and I lose my footing Again
Forever seems like so long until I think of all the times spent waiting
The pen must be mightier than the sword For there is nothing that will spill your guts faster than a bit of ink that says
I feel empty unceasingly until you come along and fill my heart to bursting
I’ve kept my eyes closed most of these past eighteen years because I find it just as dark
I write sharp words with a sharper knife on page after page of what might as well be the skin of my back
Hope in another form but no fewer letters and I’ve been hoping for these past eight years so I’ll just keep on
If I was once the tallest mountain your love was the wind that eroded me to nothing
I say hello and you say nothing You may hear me you may even think of a response
I wrote this while thinking of you so I guess you could say this poem is eight years in the making
I know that you were there in my dreams and in my arms Every dream we