(2014)
My heart was paper now folded six times over to make it harder to tear I only hope that
Loving you was never sweet like the taste of vanilla the way I thought it was supposed to be It was more like
There seems to be a drought in my… but who knows if it is the cause or the result of the war raging within me
I’ve kept my eyes closed most of these past eighteen years because I find it just as dark
To put it simply each beat of your heart is a gift that I receive with the anticipation of a child at christmas
I get my silence in five minute doses before the plane overhead brings me back to earth
There is a girl and I love her and I have loved her since the beg… Or so it seems to me as I only became conscious
I grew up in a house built in 1937 long before codes and regulations and sometimes
Life is an uphill struggle Nothing comes easy and only hard work pays off I don’t like hard work was my 5 word protest
I see poems that need to be written scrawled in the shape of your smile and the lines of your face
Passion doesn’t arise from 12 point Times New Roman but rather from ink on one page and another
I spend my nights wishing on every star in the sky that you are alive and well
Under the weight of life I forget how to breathe and I feel suffocated I hesitantly make peace with the world
I hope this is postmarked before my death certificate is dat… but you’ll know why if it is or if it isn’t If you get this in time
There is something to be said of a true friend One who will pull the knife from your back One who will stitch the wounds