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ELIJAH PREDEOUX May 2019
Don’t wait until i die to tell me you love me.
Don’t wait until I’m in a casket to tell me you always cared.
Don’t - wait to give me recognition for the way my heart breaks itself off and shares with the people closes to it.
I’ll take my roses right now while i can still smell them.
While i can still see them bloom, bright red and breathe in their sweet air.
Yeah, i will take my roses right now.

Tomorrow is not promised.
And yesterday is no longer with us.
So; don’t wait to give me my roses.
Trust me, I’m not cocky, my humility -
it runs deep but -
I don’t wanna be forgotten.

I wanna be remembered while I’m here.
I wanna be loved, i wanna be cared for.
I don’t want a billion people saying they love me, or my work, or what I’ve done in this world - after I’ve left it.
I’ll take a couple dozen roses now.
Show me you see me now...
WHY DO PEOPLE CELEBRATE YOU, AFTER YOU'VE PASSED AWAY?
I'VE NOTICED THAT ALOT. ESP IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY, OR THE ACTING GAME. ETC... BUT EVEN IN MY REGULAR ORDINARY LIFE. PEOPLE NEVER CELEBRATE YOU OR YOUR SUCCESS, WHILE YOU'RE BREATHING... AT LEAST NOT AS OFTEN AS THEY SHOULD. ENJOY
ELIJAH PREDEOUX Feb 2019
For some reason i woke up today and i can still smell you on me.
When we hugged last night you left a constant reminder on my clothes.

Why do i love so hard?
I mean we just met, and i barely know you.
Why is my heart so open?

Your laugh is contagious,
Your smile alone made me feel like we were the only two in the room.
Did you know that your love tends to linger ?
And You got some on me.

You left me tangled in your web.
And for the first time I’m confused.
With no way out i, just lay in bed thinking about you.

I had it all planned out how i would put it down.
To be honest, this was supposed to be a one night thing.
How the **** am i in my feelings right now?
Why the **** did you wear that perfume?
Taking me to a place of sweet seduction,
Sweet devotion, ****, taking me to
sweet dreams.

Why does your love linger like that?
It’s understandable, now, why your exes stay attached.

I gotta get you off of me...
Literally real life. I met this girl last night, she came back to the house, we kicked it but by the end of the night it turns out she actually wanted my best friend. It’s crazy because it always works out like that; they always use me as like the “gateway” to him. I don’t know why or how i thought this was a different scenario lol. But anyway when she left, she hugged both of us and she left her fragrance on my arm and hand and in my heart. It’s crazy. She left an actual lasting impact. But enjoy this poem though ...
178 · Jun 2021
Unpolished.
ELIJAH PREDEOUX Jun 2021
I learned that admiring little things, is admiring everything to most women.

Majority only crave your time and your patience.

Most love “you look amazing” and similar statements.

Tell them they’re  beautiful, compliment them more than ‘on occasion’.

Their hair, their fragrance.

The small things.

She’s Not asking much.

She just wants you in your rawest form.
She wants your purest heart.

Unpolished....
145 · Jan 2021
Untitled
144 · Feb 2019
Lessons Regarding Love:
ELIJAH PREDEOUX Feb 2019
Correct me if I’m wrong, but

Isn’t love a FORCE?
Unable to be commanded,
demanded, or swayed
Unable to be taken away.

I heard love is BIGGER THAN THE PERSON FEELING IT.
I heard love can be invited in,
But not dictated in how it chooses to express itself.

I heard love is like lightening;
It is UNPREDICTABLE.
it rolls in like thunder and is IRREFUTABLE.
It is CONDITION-LESS.
Love, from what I’ve heard, is RADIANT like the sun.

I heard love is FREE;
Unable to bought or traded.
Certainly, unable to be sold.
Love, from what I’ve learned, is not to be treated as a substance or commodity.

I heard love is BOUNDLESS.
I heard that borders are nonexistent.
I heard you can’t confine love.

Love cannot be turned on as a reward,
or turned off as a punishment.

I understand that love speaks out for justice,
And it protests when there has been a breach in
moral uprightness.

Love points out the consequences of hurting and hating oneself and others.
and It allows room for pain, and anger to be released…

That is what I’ve come to know love to be.

Now i just need somebody to come and love me.

Thank you,

Eli
138 · Feb 2019
Real Personal.
ELIJAH PREDEOUX Feb 2019
I’m twenty five, and i have yet to have my first real kiss.
I don’t know why I’m waiting.
I see God sending everyone to their final destination in love;
I sit back and i wonder, “why are you skipping me?”

I gave my purity away when i was 22.
I don’t know why, i should’ve waited.
Because now we hardly talk and i can’t stand her.
And my life since has been a curveball of lust, and living below Gods standard.

Five years until I’m thirty
And i think I’ve figured it out.
My first real kiss won’t be a one night stand,
My final destination in love will be somebody that i entrust my heart to.
Somebody that i can trust not to mess it up.
It’s very fragile.
So i think i understand now why God likes to take his time.
126 · May 2019
“Cleaning Up”
ELIJAH PREDEOUX May 2019
I’m washing my hands - - of all the bullshitters.
Fake friends who only wanna be around when my pockets get bigger.
When the cheese get thicker, ****** quick to want a slice from it.
****** who ain’t never around when I’m balling on a budget, but wanna come around when I’m flooded.
I’m cleaning up.

cleaning up.
Can’t trust ****** as far as they can be thrown.
Everybody wanna call shots, wanna sit on the throne.
****, it’s not enough originals, ****** wanna be clones.
Copycat ******, got me wasting lines on this poem.

I’m cleaning up.
Waking all these demons up.
Eviction notices poppin,
They can’t come to where I’m going if they’re only gonna stop me.
If they’re only gonna weigh me down, or try to block me.
I gotta clean up, this road ASAP, it was rocky.

— The End —