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justin-bowers
justin-bowers
American I'm born and raised in California, and never really know how to describe myself. I guess that's part of the reason I write, to help express myself in a way others can understand and sometimes relate.
18 months I've kept this trapped in to be quite honest I don't know where to begin. I was working two jobs to support you and your mother I truly thought that we could always love one another. Late one night the ringing wouldn't stop. 10 missed calls made my heart drop. Work finally slowed down and I called back the anxiety almost gave me a ******* heart attack. "Honey sorry I've been busy is everything okay?" She said she'd had enough, she said she couldn't stay. "I mean I know that I'm not perfect but this is out of the blue can you at least stay through the night so I can talk to you?" I calmed her down, things seemed to be alright. But she changed her mind before the end of the night. 3 hours later I got another call. Your mother decided she couldn't stay after all. You were 3 months old and I didn't get to say goodbye I couldn't stop crying, felt like I was gonna die. I had no idea a heart could break so bad. After a wave of emotions I realized I was mad. I was working 80 hour weeks to stay financially stable to buy diapers, gas, and clothes, and keep food on the table. 18 months later the divorce is finally going through still working 2 jobs to give her money to take care of you. I'm still healing even though I act like I am fine. But I don't have nearly enough time with my precious son of mine. That's why I'm still grinding every single day. I'm coming for you, I'll be moving your way. I won't let her come between this dynamic duo I'm so happy she takes good care of you though. It's frustrating dealing with so much drama. But I'm so thankful that she's at least a good mama. There may be many differences between she and I but there's at least one thing, on her I can rely. That she'll put you first in everything in life which is why it doesn't matter that she's no longer my wife. We can both agree that your future is priority number one. So buckle up and enjoy the ride because we love you son.
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Jun 3, 2017
Jun 3, 2017 at 6:12 AM UTC
Priority #1
18 months I've kept this trapped in to be quite honest I don't know where to begin. I was working two jobs to support you and your mother I truly thought that we could always love one another. Late one night the ringing wouldn't stop. 10 missed calls made my heart drop. Work finally slowed down and I called back the anxiety almost gave me a ******* heart attack. "Honey sorry I've been busy is everything okay?" She said she'd had enough, she said she couldn't stay. "I mean I know that I'm not perfect but this is out of the blue can you at least stay through the night so I can talk to you?" I calmed her down, things seemed to be alright. But she changed her mind before the end of the night. 3 hours later I got another call. Your mother decided she couldn't stay after all. You were 3 months old and I didn't get to say goodbye I couldn't stop crying, felt like I was gonna die. I had no idea a heart could break so bad. After a wave of emotions I realized I was mad. I was working 80 hour weeks to stay financially stable to buy diapers, gas, and clothes, and keep food on the table. 18 months later the divorce is finally going through still working 2 jobs to give her money to take care of you. I'm still healing even though I act like I am fine. But I don't have nearly enough time with my precious son of mine. That's why I'm still grinding every single day. I'm coming for you, I'll be moving your way. I won't let her come between this dynamic duo I'm so happy she takes good care of you though. It's frustrating dealing with so much drama. But I'm so thankful that she's at least a good mama. There may be many differences between she and I but there's at least one thing, on her I can rely. That she'll put you first in everything in life which is why it doesn't matter that she's no longer my wife. We can both agree that your future is priority number one. So buckle up and enjoy the ride because we love you son.
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I want a girl who loves God, likes baseball, and is the other pea in my pod. I want a girl who finds sarcasm funny and isn't focused all on money. I want a girl whose smile shines bright and who knows I'll be there for her day or night. I want a girl who likes to snuggle, and knows the difference between mudblood and muggle. I want a girl who had similar television taste so I know my shows won't be erased. I want a girl who is tough but sweet and is so fine she can't be beat. I want a girl who understands why the last line was clever and likes that I'm one of the most romantic people ever. I want a girl who likes participating in every sport; she doesn't have to be good, just give a good effort. I want a girl full of internal beauty but most of all I want a girl who wants me.
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May 29, 2013
May 29, 2013 at 4:12 AM UTC
I WANT
Just when I was starting to think I'd be okay that I would be able to move on one day and find someone else who I could love the way I loved you what do you go and do? You call me when you're drunk who would've thunk that I'd be the one that you call as you stumble and fall up the stairs on the way to your room the man you used to want as your groom. Who almost though his heart was healing until you told him you were dizzy looking at the ceiling. He realized he missed your voice on the phone remembered the secrets you'd shown and thousands of other memories over time how you'd been partners in crime for 8 long wonderful years and that brought back more tears, because that's when he remembered that you were no longer his that you wouldn't be having his kids or buying a house where you'd live together, and spend your lives in each others arms forever. All those dreams are long and gone but he still waits, played like a pawn as the queen protects her new king and leads the pain into pain and suffering. But the pawn keeps moving for her because that's all he knows she was the future that he chose but his future no longer wanted to choose him. He had gone out on a limb and given away his heart. But when they grew apart she kept a broken piece with her everywhere she went. He thought he was slowly able to mend but just realized that it was just pretend. He was putting on a mask to make life easier but the more he thinks the more he is queasier because she's the one she called when she got wasted which means in her mind he's still pasted. He thinks about how she could've called her new thing but she called me and I answered on the first ring, because I still love her and a part of her loves me and I know it's foolish but that's all I can see. The slight glimmer of hope that I have when I shouldn't because I want to think she would when I know that she wouldn't ever get back with me for various reasons although we've loved each other through so many seasons. She called me, but why why would she call the heartbroken guy that still loves her when she won't return his feeling yet at the same time is this call revealing. I'll sit here and wonder but I'll never know why she drunk called me and why I responded with hello.
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May 15, 2013
May 15, 2013 at 6:35 AM UTC
What is going on?
Just when I was starting to think I'd be okay that I would be able to move on one day and find someone else who I could love the way I loved you what do you go and do? You call me when you're drunk who would've thunk that I'd be the one that you call as you stumble and fall up the stairs on the way to your room the man you used to want as your groom. Who almost though his heart was healing until you told him you were dizzy looking at the ceiling. He realized he missed your voice on the phone remembered the secrets you'd shown and thousands of other memories over time how you'd been partners in crime for 8 long wonderful years and that brought back more tears, because that's when he remembered that you were no longer his that you wouldn't be having his kids or buying a house where you'd live together, and spend your lives in each others arms forever. All those dreams are long and gone but he still waits, played like a pawn as the queen protects her new king and leads the pain into pain and suffering. But the pawn keeps moving for her because that's all he knows she was the future that he chose but his future no longer wanted to choose him. He had gone out on a limb and given away his heart. But when they grew apart she kept a broken piece with her everywhere she went. He thought he was slowly able to mend but just realized that it was just pretend. He was putting on a mask to make life easier but the more he thinks the more he is queasier because she's the one she called when she got wasted which means in her mind he's still pasted. He thinks about how she could've called her new thing but she called me and I answered on the first ring, because I still love her and a part of her loves me and I know it's foolish but that's all I can see. The slight glimmer of hope that I have when I shouldn't because I want to think she would when I know that she wouldn't ever get back with me for various reasons although we've loved each other through so many seasons. She called me, but why why would she call the heartbroken guy that still loves her when she won't return his feeling yet at the same time is this call revealing. I'll sit here and wonder but I'll never know why she drunk called me and why I responded with hello.
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My brain flows like the current of the ocean thoughts and memories constantly in motion. Ideas tend to come and go some are nice and deep yet others are shallow. I have a unique way of thinking I can give advice confidently without blinking. Yet somehow my own problems are too complex I look at them through foggy specs because my brain battles with my heart as I slowly fall apart from not knowing whether to surf the wave or to go with my heart and be brave. My mind says one thing heart says another slightly contradicting like a father and a mother. Both want what they view is best for you but they differ while I'm here stuck with a mess that can't get cleaned by swiffer. Right now my heart is broken so there's only one thing to do which is surf the waves of my brain until I get over you. My situations like an whirlpool dragging me down but this young man refuses to drown. So I write poems for they're my life preserver, and I'll swim on because I guess I don't deserve her. These are thee waves that crash in my head every night before I go to bed. Sometimes I feel like I'm going insane but it's just the waves that are crashing in my brain.
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May 13, 2013
May 13, 2013 at 2:51 PM UTC
Brain Waves
Like a shooting star I'm gone but you can see me. my hearts fighting a war but it's doing it discretely. I need love like a car needs gas without it my bodies failing I'm hoping this phase will pass for my personality's derailing
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May 3, 2013
May 3, 2013 at 3:03 AM UTC
Lost
As a child you have no agenda set you wake up every morning and don't know yet what you're going to do what or with who. You let things come your way some leave and some stay but you always adjust how you live you take or you give without a second thought you don't think whether or not it's the best decision for you you just do what you do and you smile and after a while you start to age your book of life writes a new page day by day soon your first hair will turn gray when school is no longer fun but just a task to be done because responsibility is now yours just like at home you have chores that you now plan around no longer at the playground but now you're at home sitting alone instead of playing with friends by yourself your day ends unless you count the things on your bed papers to write, books still to be read. Your friendships fade away but more begin day by day. Schools pass by ever so fast next thing you know you're in college at last. But college isn't like on TV it's not just a giant party. It's hours of studying and work and lots of stress likes to lurk until it comes out of the blue trying to destroy you. You learn to fight this attack by making friends who always have your back at least that's what you think until they find a weak link which they then break apart partially breaking your heart because you honestly care and would always be there for them but they don't believe it's an idea they cannot conceive. For humans are born in sin so we simply cannot begin to believe things others say without proof to lead us that way. and it's sad that one little mistake a solid friendship it can take and break it like its fragile as glass when you met in third grade class and now after seven years you no longer lend ears and its slightly pathetic only difference is education versus athletic he chose one path and I chose another so I lost a friend who was my first fake brother. It's fine though because I've gotten close to more men and women I would honestly die for. But would they do the same? This is why life is such a game, we're all pieces in the real game of life I'm aiming for a career, car, and wife. At the same time though I want to make friends ones that have no ends. People I consider sisters and brothers that I'll know when they become fathers and mothers. I want my kids to be friends with theirs and for us to have convos as we sit old in wheelchairs because we're getting to that age where the games almost done where we know we've all won because of the friendships we've had through the good and the bad. I don't know if that's how things will turn out but that's what I want my life to be about. As I sit here at 20 I dream and wish that this is a goal I can accomplish. At the moment I let stress build, and decay the goal that I live for each and every day. School and work are tearing me down but it seems like nobody notices how my eyes frown. It's due to my positive outlook I know because I find silver linings so my eyes can still glow. I have some friends that help ease the burden a bit enough to know that I would never quit. But it'd be nice if more people I sacrifice for would see that I'm not just holding open a door. I'm lending my hand to them when they need I'm not just trying to do a good deed. I'm trying to show them I want them as friends all the way until my game of life ends. Due to these struggles with stress I have strife as does every one else; so goes life.
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Apr 23, 2013
Apr 23, 2013 at 4:43 AM UTC
So Goes Life
As a child you have no agenda set you wake up every morning and don't know yet what you're going to do what or with who. You let things come your way some leave and some stay but you always adjust how you live you take or you give without a second thought you don't think whether or not it's the best decision for you you just do what you do and you smile and after a while you start to age your book of life writes a new page day by day soon your first hair will turn gray when school is no longer fun but just a task to be done because responsibility is now yours just like at home you have chores that you now plan around no longer at the playground but now you're at home sitting alone instead of playing with friends by yourself your day ends unless you count the things on your bed papers to write, books still to be read. Your friendships fade away but more begin day by day. Schools pass by ever so fast next thing you know you're in college at last. But college isn't like on TV it's not just a giant party. It's hours of studying and work and lots of stress likes to lurk until it comes out of the blue trying to destroy you. You learn to fight this attack by making friends who always have your back at least that's what you think until they find a weak link which they then break apart partially breaking your heart because you honestly care and would always be there for them but they don't believe it's an idea they cannot conceive. For humans are born in sin so we simply cannot begin to believe things others say without proof to lead us that way. and it's sad that one little mistake a solid friendship it can take and break it like its fragile as glass when you met in third grade class and now after seven years you no longer lend ears and its slightly pathetic only difference is education versus athletic he chose one path and I chose another so I lost a friend who was my first fake brother. It's fine though because I've gotten close to more men and women I would honestly die for. But would they do the same? This is why life is such a game, we're all pieces in the real game of life I'm aiming for a career, car, and wife. At the same time though I want to make friends ones that have no ends. People I consider sisters and brothers that I'll know when they become fathers and mothers. I want my kids to be friends with theirs and for us to have convos as we sit old in wheelchairs because we're getting to that age where the games almost done where we know we've all won because of the friendships we've had through the good and the bad. I don't know if that's how things will turn out but that's what I want my life to be about. As I sit here at 20 I dream and wish that this is a goal I can accomplish. At the moment I let stress build, and decay the goal that I live for each and every day. School and work are tearing me down but it seems like nobody notices how my eyes frown. It's due to my positive outlook I know because I find silver linings so my eyes can still glow. I have some friends that help ease the burden a bit enough to know that I would never quit. But it'd be nice if more people I sacrifice for would see that I'm not just holding open a door. I'm lending my hand to them when they need I'm not just trying to do a good deed. I'm trying to show them I want them as friends all the way until my game of life ends. Due to these struggles with stress I have strife as does every one else; so goes life.
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Life goes by in the blink of an eye so make sure you live to the fullest don't aim to be the coolest 'cause friends fade away and although some stay those are the ones who love you not the "cool" things that you do. Live life with goals to fulfill believe that you will achieve them and more because that's what life is for. Personally my goal is to please God and with me some will nod in agreement that finding Christ is the best achievement. I know I can't be perfect but striving Tabalikum is worth it. I will need help to stay strong but I've got true friends who will help me along. My brothers and sisters in Christ will assist when my goals are first missed but eventually I'll be on track and I won't look back.
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Mar 30, 2013
Mar 30, 2013 at 3:27 PM UTC
Dedicated
After 4 years you would think everything was practically set in stone, after all the time you've stayed away from "alone" you thought you two were old friends who would never hangout again. But life took it's course your heart taken with emotional force. So now you and alone are together once more you wait patiently for God to open a new door but you can't help being heart broken. Your relationship was a wonderful token but with the wind it is gone you were played like a pawn in the longest game of chess ever played where at the very end a switch was made the pawn for some piece new your heart now caged like an animal at the zoo. It takes a moment to notice what occurred and then H-E-A-R-T is just a word. Your heart has been broken no words left to be spoken all you can do is walk away for a heart has nothing left to say when it's destroyed. With emotions she toyed and now at night you just stare at the moon because the girl you thought would be engaged to you soon is no longer around she's lost and will never be found because she left you as she fell in live with him. The glow in your heart is now dim You can't help but wonder if your whole relationship was fake and now all that's left is your heartbreak.
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Mar 14, 2013
Mar 14, 2013 at 7:05 PM UTC
Heartbreak
Love isn't hearts Love isn't cupid Love isn't smart Love isn't stupid Love isn't a girl or guy Love isn't a thing Love isn't an object to buy Love isn't a ring These are just symbols of love that the world throws at you to make you believe in it the way they do. So what is love really? Love is sacrifice, commitment, and trust. Love is love, not lust. like a wave in the ocean Love is an action rooted by an emotion. Love gives before it takes Love makes many mistakes but love always forgives because part of you lives in love and love lives in you which is why one flesh comes from two. Love will be there for you, when you're not there for it Love won't say a word but will hold you and sit silently taking away some of your pain even though from it love has nothing to gain. If you want love to love you then you need to love love because that's what true love is made of.
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Feb 22, 2013
Feb 22, 2013 at 3:57 AM UTC
LOVE
It's driving me absolutely insane that I can't get this girl out of my brain even though she's a little young for me. I can't remember the last time I was crushin I guess it makes for a good discussion my friends think it'd be good but would she? Love comes in hearts not ages hits people at different stages It's a part of all decisions makes for emotional collisions and most of all it brings us pain, until the perfect person comes along, and brings us everything. I can't believe my hearts racin this much over a girl I'm chasin I want to know if I can win. The fight for her is gettin fun I'm wondering if she could be the one or am I just gonna hurt a girl again? Love comes in hearts not ages hits people at different stages It's a part of all decisions makes for emotional collisions and most of all it brings us pain, until the perfect person comes along, and brings us everything. I guess life's about taking chances seeing what come of summer romances and trying to figure out God's plan. This seems like such a giant task but I just really want to ask if this girl will let me be her man. Love comes in hearts not ages hits people at different stages It's a part of all decisions makes for emotional collisions and most of all it brings us pain, until the perfect person comes along, and brings us everything. Until the perfect person comes along, and brings us everything.
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Feb 22, 2013
Feb 22, 2013 at 2:32 AM UTC
Chances of Love