When my daydreams take center stage
There is no greater way
For this tale of love to curtain
Than for us to linger hand in hand
For all our remaining days
Growing old on the porch swing
Watching our children's children play
Amongst the wildflowers
On a brilliant spring day

She deserves everything that she wants,
but she doesn’t want everything that she deserves.

How can you complain about your life
Lonely and devoid of light
When you lay beneath a blanket of stars
Each and every night

I am always going to disappoint someone
But from now on it won’t be me

Sitting in uncomfortable silence
No longer husband and wife
From this day forward
Both starting a new life

Reminiscing
Brings me to tears
We have so many good memories
Over the years

The safety I feel
Makes me want to stay
When I see the hurt in your eyes
I have to look away

I love you so ******* much
But I can’t hurt anymore
I wish we could turn back time
To the way things were before

I will miss you
But it’s better this way
My heart is aching
But I know I cannot stay

You say I’m being selfish
And maybe it’s true
I keep trying to make it work
But I cannot forgive you

Our life together
Is ending here today
Going our separate ways
With nothing left to say

You lay in a separate room
Im crying and were both alone
Nothing left but memories
Of our family and our home

Do not assume
Because I stay quiet
When you are angry
That I am weak

It takes far more strength
To stay silent
Than it does to say
All the hurtful things on my tongue

Do not assume
Because I love you
With every fiber of my being
That I can’t live without you

I have lived
After having my heart
Ripped straight out of my chest
Multiple times

My wandering fingertips
Trail up and down my skin
I can’t help but wish
It was your lips again

Someday I’ll wake
And find you next to me
Until then I just have my dreams
And my poetry

Tonight I am drowning
Waves of missing you
Crashing all around me
My swirling current of thoughts
Pulls me under
Lost in a sea of tears
Longing to see your lighthouse
To guide me back to safety

I left my heart in your care
With only a stare you ensnared
"Trust me" you dared

My deepest fears I shared
Nothing can compare
To the hurt I must bear

You finessed me with flair
I became aware
Of your secret love affair

You gave no thought to my welfare
Why is honesty so rare?
Now I am left in despair

Trapped in this nightmare
I hope to repair
Our relationship threadbare

Of this beware:
If you find love elsewhere
you will find me nowhere

If nothing lasts forever
Why do we expect love to be the exception?

Her poems are expressions
Of her silence
She pens all the thoughts
She’s scared to hear
Pouring from her own mouth

Our love
Was destined to fail
Instead of seeing me
For all the things I was
You saw me
For all the things I was not

She didn’t want to be saved
She wanted to feel safe
While she saved herself

She wasn’t waiting
for a knight in shining armor
She fought her own demons

She didn’t expect to be treated
Like a princess
She wanted to be respected like a queen

I never truely bought in to the concept of fate
Until you touched my lips and my heart
At the same time

I don’t know what my future holds
But of this I am sure
Your fingers fill the spaces
Between mine perfectly

She wanted to be loved
To be put back together
Until she was whole once more
It’s not until he couldn’t
That she realized
It was never up to him
To fix her
It was always up to her
To love herself enough
That she couldn’t remember why
She ever felt the need
To be fixed in the first place

You were not forged with wings
To spend your life perched upon a branch
Watching the world pass you by

I may be easily forgotten
But don’t think for a second I’ll forget

Friendships sometimes evolve
Blossoming into love
But true love
Never dwindles into friendship

She planted a garden in their love
Because she believed in a tomorrow

I slipped away from you into the darkness
Before dawn could shine a light on reason
The cycle must be broken, but how?
Your sun was always brighter than my moon

Goodbyes aren’t always evident.
A person doesn’t have to pack a bag,
and kiss you goodbye,
to leave forever.
Sometimes they slip away so subtly,
you don’t even notice,
until they are gone forever.

I know you are too good for me
But that won’t stop me from trying
To be good enough for you

I find you among the small things
And for that I am thankful
As the little things are all I have left

The warm tickle pressed upon my skin
From the heat of the sun
On a dewy spring morning

In the song of the birds
Not unlike those we used to watch
Flit across your yard

The scent of fresh cut grass
The same I smelled from you mowing
As I picked dandelion bouquets for Grandma

In the smiles of passing strangers
Because to you there is no such thing
Only friends you have yet to meet

I find you among the small things
And I will cherish them profoundly
Until we meet again

I had to let you go
So I can finally grow

When you love
Do so with all your heart
Love was never meant to be given
Halfheartedly

I hide pieces of myself
Wrapped up in a bow
Anything so you can’t see
The broken me underneath

My sender forgot to mark me
Handle with care
I’ve been damaged
Lost in transit

When I finally arrive
At your feet
I hope you  can look past the cracks
And cherish my pieces

When I asked if we could bury the hatchet;
I didn’t mean in my back.

Every brush needs a painter
Every song needs a dancer
Every heart needs a breaker

And for her
You were all three

Her eyes told a story
That you failed to read
So infatuated
With ******* her body
You forgot
To uncover her mind