Youth is wasted Proving you are a man Seniority is wasted Lementing lost youth
2015-01-01-19-13-39_poetryx World Divided I sit here alone waiting on the edge harsh reality
I don’t know if you read these things But if you do I’ll take your silence as a
Letting go Is not a choice That I can just make There are no simple steps I can mechanically perform
Too many times you told me Too many times “if I had known” Too many times “ I wouldn’t do it… Too many times “ I fell too far s… Too many times I never measured u…
There’s a hollow place Where your heart belongs Its vacuous emptiness Drains all compassion Consumes without satiation
It didn’t happen all at once The stress of impact And the heat of friction Combined Has a natural result
Are you the person I met? The person I fell in love with? Were you really just someone else; Trying to be what you thought I w… Are you anyone?
I have been proud I have considered myself wise I have thought that I was Far above The failures of others
I want to have it all A full meal with all the flavors Of the single morsel You fed me
Never again Will I be the means Used to deal my love an injury Never again
Who am I now? I’m not the man I was before You’ve changed something Done something big You’ve opened up a door
After the party Red solo cups and used rubbers filled with unrealized potential, liter
Our love cost you dear It cost you all A price I would have willingly pa… Though that cost Sadly landed on you
The cherry red tip of ash falls from her cigarette to make love with a dry autumn leaf and set the forest ablaze.