Growing up has taught me
The kind of man I’m meant to be
I’m not happy when I’m succeeding
and I’m not pretty
Keep your distance
Keep your distance
Keep your distance
From me
I still haven’t figured things out
I doubt that I ever will be
peaceful, coming to terms with that
Makes me feel more free
Keep your distance from me
I used to write of a man lost at sea
Of a mountain man
Of things I’d like to think
I could strive to be
Keep
Keep
Keep your distance from me
I’m drowning on solid ground
Burning and crashing
Surrounded by a thriving town
Burning and crashing
By friends who would never let me down
Keep your distance from me
Please
Oh please
Just give me peace
Jul 11, 2020
Jul 11, 2020 at 7:52 AM UTC
I used to be better
At being with those less put together
But as I assemble my own pieces
I've become bad at that, too
A girl wants a fiery temper
Tattoo scars from bad weather
And pieces not assembled
So she's something to do
While a boy wants not to feel bad
Something sad to make glad
As if he has no root in the blame
That any other person’s due
So now I'm trapped somewhere between
What makes up a girls dream
And what I now assume
A woman must want, too
I’m probably still wrong
Jun 6, 2018
Jun 6, 2018 at 4:28 AM UTC
If we're all stars then I want to be a super nova
Not just another white dwarf
I want to be big and bright and expansive
And I want to bring everything my warmth
I don't want to be close to imploding
At least not ever again
I want to give life and shine and my heat
To everyone I can
But what happens when two stars collide
I don't know if you know-
They either **** each other quickly
Or come together to grow
And while I never want to collapse at all
At least not any time near soon
I tell myself I'll get close to another star again
And take a chance to see if we're immune
To see if we could shoot across the sky
Right past other lonely stars so far away
Reaching new galaxies and planets
Turning night cycles to day
But that's only in perfect circumstances
Where I find a perfect matching soul
Because the other truth - the other option
is that we'd both become black holes
The truth is I'm afraid.
Mar 9, 2018
Mar 9, 2018 at 4:06 PM UTC
*** starved and aging badly
Too many cigarettes and 'dank *** weed'
Bad tattoos and ****** hair so scraggly
He's called in sick to work all week
He set his high score four years ago
But she broke his heart last June
Now he's stuck in his parents basement
Doing speed runs on Halo 2
She has no cash to feed her cats
But she bought two wigs on Monday
She dresses up like anime girls
And thinks she'll be famous someday
She'll tell you she's just keeping it real
While dressed like someone from science fiction
She meets the boy at some comic con
And they go to her hotel room to make friction
...
Edgelords and meme queens
Addicted to the obscene
Spewing hateful words
With no care for what they mean
It seems that even the regals
Are doing their kegels
Oct 3, 2017
Oct 3, 2017 at 1:06 AM UTC
I want to walk in
bartender gives me a smile
She says, 'hey how's it been?'
And then we talk for a while
She pours me a drink
asks, 'what'll it be?'
'Oh just the regular,
but with a side of green beans'
---
I wanna be a regular somewhere
It's something I'd like to be
A familiar face, man
Comin' in off the streets
---
And now my car's close to empty
And I need to grab milk
So I'll buy half a gallon
And give her a fill
'Back for dairy again, huh?
It'll be two fifty-nine'
'Plus I need some regular gas
Here's twenty this time'
---
I wanna be a regular somewhere
Somewhere where they know me
They give me **** for my habits
And for driving a red SUV
---
Now I pull in the drive way
And I walk through the door
I take a look at the clock
Already ten fifty-four
I make my way to the bedroom
Trying not to wake her from sleep
I lay in my regular spot
And she puts her arms around me
---
I wanna be a regular somewhere
It's something that I've yet to be
'Cause I don't know if you know this -
Sometimes I'm even irregular to me
Sep 12, 2017
Sep 12, 2017 at 11:52 PM UTC
Two nights in a row
with the sun coming up
I thought one was an outlier
but two is more than enough
As Roger Murtaugh would say:
I'm getting too old for this ****
But you keep swinging away;
you must be some wunderkind
I guess you'll never be done
Being this young
When your friends keep you up
By acting so numb
But I guess this is 'fun'...
Jul 9, 2017
Jul 9, 2017 at 7:07 AM UTC
All the **** that I said
about how ****** up your heart is
now seems to be stripped off
lying on the bedroom floor
And the clock on your wall
is tic-talking to me now
tail dancing to secrets
its cat eyes motion to the door
But your head on my chest
weighs me down like an anchor
keeps me under the lighthouse
drowning just off the shore
And the worst of it is
you know exactly what you're doing
and you know what it takes
to have me crawl back for more
Jun 6, 2017
Jun 6, 2017 at 11:07 PM UTC
Burn down the ice caps over my eyes
Your flamethrower love is powered by lies
Scorching the earth in search of the truth
I'm proven guilty without the proof
I search for the entrance of the maze in your heart
But the bigger journey, so far, is just finding where to start
From the hip
A tragic slip
Yet you still don't remember me
One shot
Not for naught
But it doesn't make me bleed
Like a fly
On your eye
Though it's something you can't see
But a glitch -
A phantom itch
Just one is all I'd need
We're free
Mar 3, 2017
Mar 3, 2017 at 12:35 PM UTC
When being on top of the world
Has me up on the ropes
I like to keep my options open
Like you keep your legs closed
I don't
Feb 8, 2017
Feb 8, 2017 at 12:11 AM UTC
Old habits die marred
Especially during scarred times
When you need a more unfamiliar bed
Than the one found in soft rhymes
Sometimes comfort is found in uncomfortable places
I've never found it in familiar faces
Sometimes it's found in the strangest of spaces
And others it's found in uptempo paces
A hold up a minute
Just to waist a second
Killing thyme with a vegan
Who feeds upon my meat
I'm picking up good libations
She's giving me exaltations
We're stalking hand in hand
In the intersection of a bustling heat
She gave me her throat-like throne
Just to take away my crown
Slipping through a crack in the floor, bored
We forget all proper nouns
We haven't sent out one invitation
Yet we're throwing parties in a ghost town
From dusk 'til it dawned on us
From sun up until the son set us down
We feast
Jan 29, 2017
Jan 29, 2017 at 6:32 PM UTC