It started with a single voice
Telling him to jump off the roof
Now, his head is full of voices
and as far as I know, they are all cruel
It started with a single voice
Now, one of them has replicated me
Convincing him that I have wronged him
Giving no power to my actual voice
It started with a single voice
Now, he believes everyone attempts to **** him
That the world is conspiring against him
That his thoughts have the power to take lives
It started with a single voice
Now, he sleeps in a locked monitored room
Drugged up with anti psychotics
Angry and confused
Mar 12, 2018
Mar 12, 2018 at 7:07 PM UTC
the moment a poet
falls in love with you
is the moment
you live
f o r e v e r
Mar 3, 2018
Mar 3, 2018 at 11:30 AM UTC
Boy just take it easy
Boy just take it slow
Please don't give up now
You have so much further to go
Put that gun down boy
Step away from the ledge
All the demons your fighting
Don't have to stay in your head
Let me help you boy
Let me be your light
You and I together boy
We'll give 'em a hell of a fight
This is it boy
It's time for war
With me by your side
It'll be easier than before
We got this boy
We won't back down
We'll take 'em all on
We'll knock 'em to the ground
Boy let's take it easy
Boy let's take it slow
All the demons you fight
Will no longer call you home
Feb 25, 2018
Feb 25, 2018 at 8:26 AM UTC
Laying me down you kiss my cheek
You remember all the times that we laughed
All the times that we argued and cried...
All the songs that you memorized together....
They all are gone now
Faded and burnt
Thrown and blown away......
Feb 23, 2018
Feb 23, 2018 at 8:56 PM UTC
Just know...
He’s had lives & loves before you
Remember that when the bricklayer or the mechanic
Asks for your hand
You’ll receive one flower
Instead of a dozen roses
Picked on his way home
Handwritten notes in your shoes
Instead of Hallmark greetings
Elaborate dinners cooked by him
Where he said he’d clean
Afterwards
But didn’t
Spur of the moment
Road trips
Instead of planned vacations
The opening of windows
For the springtime thunderstorms
Listening to the beat of his heart
While the rain drops
Drip
Drip
I
N
T
O
The drain
He’ll write you with jazz playing
Wine in his bottle
Records in his head
Absorbing you into his world
And if he dies before you
And you bury him
And you mourn over him
Lasting for years
Remember his flower
His notes written just for you
And if you see his ghost
Haunting you
Then the Poet
Has fallen forever for
...You...
Feb 22, 2018
Feb 22, 2018 at 7:11 AM UTC
Late night drive-thru, red lights, stop signs.
Lately I’ve been blue all in the absence of you
And I won’t lie
The Philistines are out in force tonight
And I won’t lie
I’m back on the bottle again tonight.
I can’t control it, the weight of the morning,
I read the warning but I never saw it coming
In my field of view, or in my mind’s eye,
Well, I’ve been blue in the absence of you
And I
Like a beating drum,
Like a washed-out popstar,
Like an artifact
After the fact-
I’ll cling onto what I got stored up in karma,
You see, I’ve been a good man
But I’ve done some bad things in my time.
And I won’t lie
Everything must go here tonight.
And I won’t lie
I’m back on the bottle again tonight.
They say laughter is the greatest medicine.
They say a lot of things but it never makes much sense.
They’re climbing up the walls
To get their monthly pay;
They say laughter is the greatest medicine.
Late night, junk food, I’m ****** without you.
I’m a badly drawn cartoon with red eyes
And an ego on fire.
And I won’t lie
The lunatics are out in force tonight
And I won’t lie
There’s too much wrong here
To try and make it right.
And I won’t lie
I’m back on the bottle again tonight.
https://soundcloud.com/ed-coles-667440414/bottle
Feb 16, 2018
Feb 16, 2018 at 4:33 PM UTC
No one can know your pain
Not nearly as well as yourself
But the rope won't take it away
It just gives it to someone else
Feb 16, 2018
Feb 16, 2018 at 3:01 PM UTC