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Amanda Kay Burke Aug 2021
You think you save me but I'm too far gone
Long to be my Mr.Right but you are wrong
You want to dry flood of tears flowing from my eyes
Today you are the reason that I cry
Let me drown in the deep by myself
I'm too proud to accept your help
You say you adore but I can't ascertain
What is going on in your brain
I am flawed but I push my will
To improve though the climb is uphill
Be better for you
Who you deserve
In return do things to get on my nerves
It's not intentional but it doesn't matter
Selfishness causes thoughts to scatter
I thought my trust would be safe in your hands
You were someone who cares and understands
But proved my expectations to be a mirage
Suppose the real you was actually camouflaged
A creature so jealous skin is bright green
Arms so protective feel squished between
When cradling me I feel fragile and small
That's not who I am at all
I do not need anyone else to get by
Alone don't feel guilty for how I get high
I enjoy conversations and I crave your touch
But won't allow you to become my crutch
If we reach conflict this early on
Imagine how worse it will be further along
Dancing a thin line between freedom and forgiveness
Each time I make a decision
Second guess
My instinct screams
"Run!"
Fast as I can
My emotions whisper to stay where I am
In past judgement has led me to make the wrong choice
I'm not sure of the two which is the right voice
Deep down feel certain this will not work out
My irrational attraction fills me with doubt
I long to deliver a perfect paradise
In reality love is a roll of the dice
It's a gamble
I happen to have the worst luck
Regardless of odds
Relationship is ******
It is pointless to waste time and choose
Either way
Both kind of lose
Amanda Kay Burke Aug 2021
As pulsing through my veins starts to slow way down
Tiny part of me is relieved
Blood swirling under skin nearly stands still
So subtle it's barely believed

My entire body pauses a moment
Then two
Paralyzed completely in place
As I prepare for the worst
A bed in death's embrace

Hearing goodbyes as world fades away
Quickly turns to black
Shifting from solid to spirit
Released from life to never come back
"We live on the cusp of death thinking that it won't be us..."
Amanda Kay Burke Aug 2021
Go crazier and crazier the longer you stay
Cry all night
Sleep half the day
You remain by side throughout the upheaval
You are capable of delivering me from evil
Something is not right between us
Cannot place my finger
On the imperfection
The air of frustration lingers
So I am caught in between your feelings and my own
Thoughts collide within
Creating cyclone
Moving in mind with force
Trail of mayhem in it's wake
Causing already hurting head to violently throb and ache
As I ponder what to do time tumbles out of my hands
My reflexes are too slow to catch before it lands
Clock is never on my side whether I turn left or right
No matter which way I examine
Predicament not black and white
Waiting for next error so I have a good excuse
The longer it takes the more I ask myself
"What is the use?"
You deserve to be with somebody equally devoted
Why the truth I'm telling you is not sugar-coated
I wish you would come to this conclusion without my aid
You are simply too optimistic I'm afraid
I hate doing this to you but I feel it is more fair
Being straightforward with you than to leave you unaware
Your heart may feel broken
It will only be for awhile
Promise that without me you'll again learn how to smile
Written in may but if I had known he was just using me I wouldn't have been so concerned about his feelings...
Amanda Kay Burke Aug 2021
I hate how I love this feeling
Warmth that crawls through each vein
All control lost in it's presence
Dependency driving insane

I ride wave like a surfboard
Wherever it may go
No matter how low it carries me
Don't have the will to let go

Time spins circles around
Feels like I am frozen in place
Not only am I not in first
Not even running the race

But wings of comfort lift
In the air while I am high
I inevitably come crashing down
That comfort is only a lie

Hardly notice pain when I land
The drugs have made me numb
It is only when I run out of them
That I am forced to face what I've become

I watch dreams slip out of hands
They fly somewhere out of range
In their place are thorny regrets
Does not seem like a fair exchange

Nothing good blooms here anymore
Body became a barren wasteland
Only the occasional tumbleweed
Rolls across desert of sand

My soul scorched and blackened
Like earth where lightning struck
All the universe offers me
A pocketful of bad luck

The world a beautiful place I know
To me it no longer looks that way
Envy the people who still see it as such
From my perspective surroundings are grey

Maybe if I hold on a little longer
Blue skies will one day return
It's hard to hope when you've witnessed
Everything you love and care for burn

And it is even harder living
Amidst ashes of your greatest desire
When you cannot escape the awful fact
You're the one who started the fire
This one came from deep in the heart
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