I have done you Oh, so wrong. I have never given you What you need Forgive my failure
There’s a hollow place Where your heart belongs Its vacuous emptiness Drains all compassion Consumes without satiation
I want to have it all A full meal with all the flavors Of the single morsel You fed me
It’s been 14 years Since we’ve spoken 14 years In which I’ve tried to Bury my regrets
Staring down Into my own Oblivion Self destruction Impossible to escape
Spent my whole life In a war zone Where everyman proves his metal by showing
One more meeting Just one more Rendezvous And the courage To speak up
For an instant I touched it Greatness was upon me I wonder Do you know it?
Whether moth to flame Or drawn in like fly to shit You captivate me
It has never changed My heart’s inclination. I am still drawn to you. Having known you I cannot see you
Too long trapped Hopeless and caged Owned and enraged I saw a way out Extinguished my apathy
The way to a man’s heart Is through his stomach Or so the saying goes But things are seldom So simple as that
Self Determination It’s never free There is always a cost Self determination Requires
2015-01-01-19-13-39_poetryx World Divided I sit here alone waiting on the edge harsh reality
All the spaces between. All the things left unsaid. They are like the air packed into a vanilla milkshake