Struggling with others nonsense
Focused on bettering the situation
Leave the current job for a career
Chasing those dreams past due
Setting goals too much on hold
Focused turned away from distractions
The hearts been hurt many times
Before not welcoming anymore
Worked hard and promotion denied
The agony to see the lazy person
Who got the position be careless
A hard worker giving his all
Living with rejection in denial
Trying not be know for health issue

Trying to break this cycle of crazy
Turned away from all those things
What once matter is now worthless
Doing the work struggling alone
Approval now longer required
Reached out now forgotten
Bad memories remain escape the pain

I held your love
with the fingers of my heart
I tattooed the promise
to all my tomorrows
across my back to be carried for eternity
. . . where are you now ?

It takes forever for distant stars to burn my lips
There is no mercy found on the floorboards that walk across my kiss
. . . where are they now ?

Remember how the needles of time stitched the nights together ?
How easy does the fabric of love become unentwined
. . .  remember ?

Humble greetings all
we rise or fall
upon the swords which are our words
steel of critics teeth to edge the blade,
a thousand stings and stabs
or gentle and much softer blows
which fortune falls upon the writers head
is not for us to tell,
what literary hell awaits
who knows