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Lucas Grant Aug 26
It's not easy to say but I'm asking for help
I'm confessing that I'm bruised and that I'm trying to build myself back up with superficial nonsense an insubstantial material to make me whole again
I miss who I was when I was 11 and i protect that innocent boy who over 5 years I lost and am now wondering why?
Left to fix myself up out of false apologies and unrequited hope
Lucas Grant Aug 25
The 9 lives of love
Seemingly start with you
Falling for the one who got to be the first I choose
But these confessions of a convict always have me feeling blue
I suppose it wouldn't hurt hurt much if what I had to say wasn't so true
Snippet of an anthology I'm working on called Confessions of a Convict
Lucas Grant Aug 25
Catch me on the surfside
White shorts tan lines
Sipping bacardi watching guys
Surfing between splitting oceans with clear minds
Sun stirring lights blurring
Body working and still smirking
Cause its late summer and I'm gonna be sat here till midnight
Glasses down, legs out
Living life all mine so
Catch me on the surfside
Lucas Grant Aug 25
Don't forget me
Forget them and what they said
Forget about those days and those thing we did
Forget the reason that we're now Nostalgia but bittersweet in history
Loving but living separately
Forgetting the worst but remembering the greats
It's just bittersweet Nostalgia
Something we can't forget
Lucas Grant Aug 22
Midnight conversations just don't seem to be enough
To be talking to someone but not so much so to call it love
Too scared to ask, too nervous to let it go
Not knowing how you feel creates the cracks between my nose
Gone was the sense to sniff out danger
So now I'm surprised when you go
But it's the way you talk so smoothly
Leaving me and my morals in your haze
Its just I don't know if Midnight conversations are enough to make me stay.
Lucas Grant Aug 21
Roma is where I met you,
You said you were a fighter born from the waters of Venice,
But I knew better hiding in that sweet ladies apartment on 11th Street,
Hiding from love.
        Then there's hiding from you
On our second date you told me you were an actor,
Glittering under the fatal light of Hollywood,
Your talent mistaken for imitation of your greatest tragedy,
That fatal kiss in the streets of Roma
Where you told me you were a singer known for unusual lyrics,
But i didn't mind listening to your symphonies
For they imitated sirens and so I should've seen it sooner
For on our final date you told me you were a builder known for building great relationships
And so that's why I sit writing in this sweet ladies apartment on 11th Street because it surprised me so much when you broke ours.
In Roma where I met you, where you said you were a fighter,
Yet your actions were treason because betrayal is normal in Roma,
The place I left you with all the right intentions and
                         All
                             The
                                   Wrong
                                              Reasons
It's interesting really when I say I enjoyed writing this poem when it felt a mixture of autobiographical while entirely not a true self confession of my life truths however I find it comforting and safe to turn my struggles into stories that lightly reflect how I've felt through personal experiences.
Lucas Grant Aug 21
A lack of self reflection caused a tumult of upset
A lack of self determination cause a wave of missed opportunities
And it was the lack of understanding that meant we weren't meant to be
Its hard really to self confess an ending which has not yet happened but when you know deep down it's propably meant to end
Not out of hate or a concern that became an all consuming factor over time, but
A lack self diagnosis that meant I struggled to spot the problem
An abundance of youth which meant we were meant to learn not love.
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