There is someone
who will protect me

Someone who will stay by my side
without lies...



...Can I believe that?

I'll try my hardest
to live a happy life

I'll try my hardest
to not deceive myself

Maybe someday things will turn out
for the best

I'll do my best

So, someday
We'll become friends again.

You gave me a helping hand
into deaths sweet embrace

It had been awhile
since we opened that rooms door
up the stairs
and down the hall

I hadn't wanted to go in there
or see what it had become
or even if it stayed the same

Because I knew if I did
the terrible memories would flow out
along with the small speckle of good ones
here and there

But when my mother and I
opened that room

Light came flowing out of it
through the open window
across from us
and the sun
shone through
and brought
only daylight
through the room
up the stairs
and down the hall

He is he
   And I am I

Two threads of fate
   That do not tie

And all were are

Are two clocks
   That do not tick in unison

Sometimes you become lost
you lose sight of what's in front of you
until the people who love you
your friends, and family, start calling out to you
they scream for you in hopes you'll hear them
and go find them again

Than there are people out there
who are just there for a short time
they're there to help you find your way
back to those who are calling you
after you've gotten lost

Those people are the most lucky
because they've gotten to see the side of you
that not many have seen

The kind of people who would pick an abandoned
animal off the street
whose hurt and wounded
and just needs affection till it can get on its feet again
than those people send that animal off
back to where it belongs,
to the people who are calling for them

Sometimes, there are those who are worth
getting lost for

I've already gone too far
Now there's no going back

And no matter how much regret
lays on my shoulders

I can't go back
Because its you

There are so many
people out there
under this night
sky gifted with
happiness and
afflicted with
suffering

But the
same strong
wind
blows over
us all.

My Darling,
My Darling...

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A bruise will heal
   it doesn't last
   it will leave me as I was

A wound though
   will leave it's mark
   it'll leave a scar across my heart

So if I had to say which you are
   I'd have to say
   you are a scar

When you're reading a book
but the words become blurry

Your glasses
they begin to look like a rainy day
when you're out in the town

Your cheeks
they're wet and stained now

Your eyes
they're red and swollen

And you realize
you're crying

Someone once said
"That place
is engulfed
in darkness."

However
That does in no way mean...
that there was never any light.

The only way your heart will mend
Is when you learn to love again

The happiness of people
is such a fickle thing

Those
gloomy
eyes that
occasionally
showed
wavering
reflections
of city
lights

were like
the ocean
at night

and against
all reason

they
instantly
drew
me in

And if the world were black and white,
you would be my rainbow in shades of grey.

Unrequited love for these three
torturous years of my life

The magazine pictures tell us what we should be

Judging everybody by what's on their shelves

No one knows what it means to be themselves

The arms of the ocean
Will soon come rescue me

In the dark
I can hear your heart

We will never be afraid again

The stars
The Moon
The Galaxies
They aren't you

I followed the beat of your heart
The sound of stars leaving trails of art
You were in the darkness too
So I stayed in the dark with you

Just as we are,
     always just
      this way
defying everything

Through pain
      and solitude
we somehow met
       to soothe
            our
             sorrow

I'd gladly fall in love with you
But lets keep it to goodbye
Because loving means some falling
and I'm afraid of heights

I feel as if I know you
     when I look into your eyes

As if we had met once
     in our previous lives

I


see


the


Monster


inside


your


*Soul

He never looked into her eyes
He never knew how she felt
He could only try to understand
The pain her heart had dealt

Concealing in a corner
      Pressed up against the wall
      can they even see me
      do they know I'm here at all?

I never got the book
        to tell me who to be
        what to say and mimic
        like everyone else I see

As a flower I will wilt
        longing for the sun
        deprived of the cold water      
         hoping to be someone

As I wish on a star

I'm hoping love with lead me
             right to where you are

Don't lose who you are
        Just keep wishing on stars

It was the way he said her name
       as if there were no other

The way his eyes would sparkle
       as it was clear his heart would flutter

Although she continued loving him
       she knew his love was for another

I was happy that only I knew
            the true side of you.

The heart that I understand,
The feelings that I don't.

It's all because of you
I've gotten to know the meaning of love...

Is it really a crime
     If it's all in your mind?

I am getting older
     And now it's starting to show

If only we were born
in the same Country.

If only we met under
different circumstances.

Things might have been
different then.

I knew I wouldn't always be
                   first in your heart

But for that short time I was
          And you helped me see the sparks

Maybe if I'd read deeper into your words
                                          I'd understand

She walks through the room
             With a prideful high march
But she only turns heads
              Never their hearts

No one can hear your screams
          When you're in space.

This was never a home
      Just another house to me

The states and the races are all jumbled together
Territory changes from hand to hand;
Mankind stirs up strife again and again.

Say you love me A thousand times
     I'd still doubt

I don't know you
   But I cried at your funeral

No the voices that scare me
Aren't from the people that I dread
No these voices that I'm scared of
Are the ones inside my head

If you can understand my poems
I'm sure you can understand me
Because everything I can't say for those to hear
I write for others to read.

Perhaps I don't hate you for changing
And leaving your old shell
Maybe, just perhaps I'm jealous
that I'm the girl, who couldn't change herself.

There are many places I've been to
But none felt quite right
Because my home is the place
that lays right by your side.

He wants to say I love you
but keeps it to goodnight
because love will mean some falling
and she's afraid of heights.

-R.I.D.