ALC - Hello Poetry

ALC Aug 2017

Last night I meet an old friend,
And he told me all the things I had longed to hear.
He told me his mistake,
In not asking me before
To be his one and only for ever more.
He looked at me with crushing hope
To help take away his pain.

Last night I kissed an old friend
And my life quickly changed.
Because when I opened my eyes
I was left feeling drained,
I was left feeling pained,
I was left with no clue of where things had gone a stray.

This morning I said goodbye to an old friends
In the most heart breaking way.
I opened my eyes
And took it all in so clear,
And realized it was all in my brain.
-ALC August 7, 2017

ALC Aug 2017

I Say No

They ask me
Will you date him?
Will you love him?
Will you guys finally be together?
And my response lies with a drifting gaze of
No.
I cannot date him,
I cannot love him,
I cannot be with him.
For I gave my hearts away seasons ago,
And though I have asked for it to come back countless times,
It stays within reach of someone who has yet to grab it,
And hold it,
And treat it with compassion.
So I say no,
Because my chest is hallow
And my blood has run cold,
And I hold no room in my body for a miss matched puzzle piece.
I say no,
Because I fell in love with someone who has no idea,
And my heart has yet to find it’s way back to me.
-ALC August 7, 2017

ALC Aug 2017

Perfectly Imbalanced

He was a mix of contradictions
Fitted inside a shattered body

He was so extraordinary weak,
Fitted with an upside down frown.

He strove for comfortability
While always pushing beyond his limits.

This boy was crippled from inside and out
And strong enough to hold everyone else up.

He brought out the sunshine,
Yet craved the clouds.

He was such a mixture of inconsistencies
that each day his face would change
and each moon cycle he would become a new.
-ALC August 5, 2017

ALC Jul 2017

Lier

Why did your lying make you mad?

ALC Jul 2017

Wild

Tree’s engulf me.
Allow my pale skin to match your red bark,
Let my body stretch into the sky above.
I am tired of this world and your silence is so alluring.

Forest absorb me.
Let my whispering thoughts match the roar of your silence.
Allow my body to still,
And my shaking limbs to stop.

Nature overwhelm me
Swell inside me and release this overload.
Take away my pain
My misery
My happiness
My pleasure.
Take away it all, and replace it with your calm reassurance.

Wilderness
Take my screaming heart,
And claim it as your own.
ALC July 10, 2017

ALC Jun 2017

Alarm Bell

5 am calls my name,
And drives all my dreams away.
I wake with a start
Trying to calm my beating heart.
As I look out my window.
Am I still sane?

5 am calls my name,
With rays of light peaking through.
I am not sure what draws me awake
To look out my window at you.
I know my eyelids can’t play this game
And wont let me stay to long.

5 am calls my name
Feeling restless and awake.
Yet my thrumming heart quickly calms down as I see your name,
And my limbs grow heavy at the sight of you
Pulling me back down to sleep.
-ALC June 25, 2017

ALC Jun 2017

Cricket

Constantly you chirp
Just out of reach
Playing your violin
That keeps me from my sleep.

You play me into flash backs
Of all my longing days
Of all the lovers,
That have managed to escape.

Your melodic music
Pushes thoughts into my head
And all those things,
Push me farther from my bed.

Just put down your instrument,
And let my eyelids relax.
Just settle your restless legs
And allow me to collapse.
-ALC June 25, 2017