Category: poem

i know
i
i’ve been asking
for too much
you
you’ve been
looking the other way
i can’t say
can’t say
that i blame you
for giving up
up on my bad luck
i’m sure you tried
tried but
just gave up
when i came to you
empty handed
strung up
danced around
like i was
all done up
but time after time
look where i’ve ended up
just stringing you around
wondering where i was
when you came down
hard
hard on me
to get it together
sooner then later
i guess it’s not
not up for debate
but just hear me out
i wanted to be right
turns out
that isn’t the case
unless i come across
a better version
of myself

write down your deepest secret
send it off on royal air mail
till it reaches the corner of the earth
so i can read it in the depths of isles
where no once else can hear me think it

i’ve been catching your old vibes
getting caught up on new tastes
of depreciating desires
and long distance phone calls
to fourth world countries

keep on scratching my forehead
from the marking you placed
more than two weeks ago
you spelt it out in ink
a four letter word that doesn’t rhyme

want to catch up with those dead ends
they seem to be the only conclusions
that i can count on to come across
in the foreseeable future of things
unlike cul-de-sacs in suburbia

has the haze left your eyes
the cover is clearing soon
put forward your desires
that linger in the dark
spark the coming change
withstanding harsh secrets
emerging from depths below
if you can guide them safely
they’ll beckon to your voice
command precise control
slowly til the facade falls
broken in two, matching pieces
we can reminisce their demise
after we collect our prize
once the haze has left your eyes

it’s easy
to be loved by you
you put your hands
on my face slowly
admire my smile
accepting your touch
sliding your hand
across my chest
to feel my heart
beating with yours
it’s natural
this love of ours

it started in my ears
the faint tune
rang true to me
it began to shift me
strip away the years
of anger
of love
of knowledge
of fear
back to my essence
of my innocence
i became ambitious
i longed for life
i felt free of all ties
i relished in it
and when it stopped
the layers of years
returned slowly
the escape i felt
had come to an end

i search for the tune
when i wish to relive
those years ago
that passed so soon