i never used to smoke
but since you left,
it’s the only time i can seem to breathe

Your soul is mine to reap.

I can’t escape them
Parasites drain me
broken people seek me
And I am left with nothing
Negative thoughts control me
They are not my own
This world is diseased

All I was taught is
Fear and suspicion

I fell in love with a dream,
and then I woke up.
It felt like a gut punch.
I wanted so badly for
the dream to be real,
but it wasn't.

The antonym for
dream is
reality.
And the reality
was
that she could
never love me
like I loved her.

A flickering smile
from a stranger
with your blue eyes
I get a sense of you in me
like a butterfly
that flutters by
on the Summer breeze
calling
"Be what you be
see what you see
one life, one reality."

I am high on life,
drowning in euphoria,
and drunk on loving.