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Owen Sep 2020
Words of the wise.
Be present. Live there.
Love your life,
though life's not fair.
Revel
in spontaneity.
Never dwell
on the memories.
Expel sadness and anxiety.
You should be happy.

Well, I'm living here.
I'm living now.
But presently
Im so alone,
always a boken thing.
Constantly on the brink
of this life,
of falling.
Ceaselessly waiting
to disappear.
Feeling so small,
I'd flit away
on the faintest breeze.
Nothing and no one
to hold me down,
or shed a tear.

These days I'm a ghost,
in flesh,
desperate to feel warmth.
Walking through a world
of things so alive.
Somtimes living in the the past and future are the only ways to survive.
Owen Sep 2020
Well, it happened.
I was once again, a temporary fix
for a yearning soul.
A bandage
discarded after use.
All the promises,
oh the ******* promises,
the sweet words,
the long nights,
moments,
memories,
plans,
I love you's,
were a lie.
And now I stumble
through days with no meaning.
My body
a husk
in agony.
My breath is gone
and I am at the bottom
of the deepest trench,
of the deepest ocean,
drowning in darkness.
As she flys away
singing.
A stranger now.
I must love.
Owen Sep 2020
Something I'll never be.
But maybe,
if I sweat enough,
if I bleed enough
you'll see that I care.
If I trust enough,
if I hurt enough,
everything will be fair.
If Im cold enough,
if Im warm enough,
I'll survive your storm.
If Im starved enough,
awake long enough,
your attention wont be torn.
But I'm not enough,
its obvious.
So give me leave to die.
I'm not enough,
just ash and dust,
in darkness let me lie.
Owen Sep 2020
Tell me how you want me,
I would be anyone,
anything for you.
Lie down on a bed
of roses for you.
Slowly bleeding dignity.

Yet I cant ignore
the man I should be
that I was.
That man wont
depreciate,
be decieved,
let gaurd down,
show want or need.
That stone man
so cold.
Where is he?
Im not so old,
but I should be.
Owen Aug 2020
These days
I'm a monster
at war with myself,
the light, the dark, or
the grey numbness
of images haunting me.
If only I could sleep
instead of filling in
the terrifying
blank spaces.
Oh how I will welcome
the black void.
peace is gone
Owen Aug 2020
You poured your words
into my whiskey glass.
Over and over
again.
I drank every drop
In good faith.
Hopelessly drunk
on a dream of love.

Now you fill my glass
and pour it down the drain
as I reach for you.

This hangover
is gonna be my worst.
I woke up somewhere I dont know
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