(2014)
#Life #LossLove
I see poems that need to be written scrawled in the shape of your smile and the lines of your face
If I was once the tallest mountain your love was the wind that eroded me to nothing
I would write a sweet poem and title it with your name if I loved you at all
Under the weight of life I forget how to breathe and I feel suffocated I hesitantly make peace with the world
I was like a rain cloud over a small garden and dammit if you weren’t that garden so full of flowers that I fell in love
It must be a wednesday or a friday or any day at all for I am painfully aware of the wo… that consumes me
Loving you was never sweet like the taste of vanilla the way I thought it was supposed to be It was more like
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 have whispered your name into the air so many times it has become the breeze that blows
To put it simply each beat of your heart is a gift that I receive with the anticipation of a child at christmas
I see no joyous rebirth in spring for autumn will bring another death I see no joyous rebirth
All that I know how to do is write about death without dying and write about life
I know that you were there in my dreams and in my arms Every dream we
I write sharp words with a sharper knife on page after page of what might as well be the skin of my back
Everyday I lived out a song written just for you But you could