If you saw me in the street today,
You wouldn't recognize me.
You'd see a woman whole,
A woman independent, harder.
If you walked down my street today,
I don't think that I'd know you.
I wouldn't see the boy I knew
From back when we would study.
When we studied happy endings,
I'd forgotten it was practice.
I forgot that we'd be young for years
And how we both were growing.
We learned a lot those days,
When we both grappled with rejection;
How to handle hurt and hate
And falling out of puppy love.
The girl I was thought that was it,
As silly as I was in school.
Remember what we said?
How we would move out in the snow?
It's funny, really, nowadays,
And look at us, both happy!
I never thought in high school
That we hadn't met our matches.
We were practicing for them,
And I just didn't realize at the time.
I think we practiced well back then,
I think we make them happy.
May 17, 2016
May 17, 2016 at 6:33 AM UTC
I wish I could believe
I'm falling for the man from Pakistan.
The only one I'm falling for is you.
I wish that it was true
I love the girl that likes the things I write.
The only one I write about is you.
And all my words are falling out
My fingertips,
My cracking lips
Nov 19, 2015
Nov 19, 2015 at 7:30 AM UTC
Maybe just another try;
He said he's sorry,
No need to say goodbye.
Bruises go away,
Not like you're gonna die.
It's just blood beneath your skin.
Nov 19, 2015
Nov 19, 2015 at 7:07 AM UTC
The sprinklers would wash away the guilt
And we would be whoever we wanted to be.
Nov 19, 2015
Nov 19, 2015 at 6:58 AM UTC
Growing up happened faster than I thought it would;
Now I pay bills and visit my parents.
I sleep in this recliner where I would stay up late,
Talking on the phone with liars until I fell asleep.
"Dulcet tones into a receiver," I called them before.
Now I know better.
My feelings aren't hurt anymore,
And now I've forgiven almost everything.
I'm too strong now for the backbiters of the past,
And they've grown into harmless strangers
Like we all do.
Sometimes when I hear that song,
I feel the hurt again, but that's all it is;
A feeling, fleeting, gone by the double bar line,
And I feel so much better.
I cry much more for happiness these days.
Growing up is happening so quickly,
And now I'm waiting in the recliner on an engagement
That will have the harmless strangers smiling politely.
Their feelings aren't hurt anymore
And we all know better now.
Sep 13, 2015
Sep 13, 2015 at 4:55 AM UTC
I'd look in your direction
If I was out at sea;
The furthest I am from you
Is the best I'll ever be.
I've got to see you coming
If you're out on your way,
And I'm sure you know I'm looking,
Scared I'll see you everyday.
I am a human being,
Not a hero like you.
I am a human being,
Not a hero like you think I am.
"Honey, sing to me
Or take my photo down.
I am so colorblind,
I feel so helpless now.
With all that water all around you,
Are you doing fine?
You must still need me,
You're still always on my mind."
I am a human being,
Not a hero like you.
I am a human being,
Not a hero like you think I am.
Don't ask me
Why you are the way you are.
I've just come to talk to you again
About whatever makes you happy.
Oct 25, 2014
Oct 25, 2014 at 3:34 AM UTC
When I disappear,
And I can't see you
And you can't see me,
I don't know what I'll do.
No souls for me, no heavens.
When I die,
And I can't sleep in your arms
And you can't sleep in mine,
I don't know what I'll do.
No souls for me, no heavens.
When I was a child
And you were a child,
I wonder if we met
In the streets outside my grandfather's house.
I wonder if we played together and neither of us will ever remember.
And if I start to forget our stories from now,
I don't know what I'll do.
No souls for me, no heavens.
And if we start growing old
Like everybody else,
I don't know what I'll do.
No souls for me, no heavens.
May 18, 2014
May 18, 2014 at 2:16 AM UTC
Baby ladybug, how I'll love you when we meet,
From your newly thinking head to your newly tapping feet.
How you'll fly out in the sunshine, pick a petal for your seat;
Lovely baby ladybug, how I will love you when we meet.
May 18, 2014
May 18, 2014 at 1:38 AM UTC
I didn't find the time in the months I was around you
To ever say, "Hello,"
Or learn your name.
Angela S.
I didn't know it until today.
I didn't know that you were thirty-six until I read the articles about you.
I knew that you were late to choir sometimes,
And you wore shorts even when it was cold.
I didn't know you lived in those apartments until the police were investigating them.
My sister lived so close to there.
I didn't find the time to know you,
Angela S.
But I found the time to judge you.
You stood between seconds and you were a first.
You didn't know your parts very well.
I was annoyed.
It's concert choir, no audition.
I shouldn't have been so bothered.
I'm sorry.
That was the last time I saw you.
I didn't know you had a son until after he found your body.
I knew next to nothing about you until you were shot.
We sang the same music for months.
May 15, 2014
May 15, 2014 at 2:08 AM UTC
I don't know how you do it,
How you're both so big and small.
I fell just as the leaves did;
I for you and them for Fall.
I've never given so much
And received much in return,
But you've turned that around;
Shown me that love is grown and earned.
Your breathing in the nighttime;
Your clock beside the bed;
Your sleeping speech of nonsense;
Your image in my head.
I don't know how you do it,
How you're both so big and small.
I fell just as the leaves did;
I for you and them for Fall.
May 7, 2014
May 7, 2014 at 12:09 AM UTC