Someone please take my pen
Teach me to become numb
I wouldn't need my ink
If I could stop caring for everyone

I don't want to want to write
I hate relying on cheap lined paper
Pain should be ugly
I was told life's a lady and
I should love her

Burn each of my notebooks
Rip out every page
Numb my every feeling
Put my heart back in his cage

I'll stay off the poetry sites
I'll be lost with not in words
Love will be beautiful again
And crows will be nothing but birds

The sky was white and the air was cold
he willingly gave me his hand to hold

we've known each other for years; man time flies
I still get queasy when I stare into his eyes

I matured fast; now an old soul
he's my better half and makes me feel whole

If I trip he's there to break my fall
when I'm in a jam he's the first person I call

I've let him go so many times
but in the crowds, it's me he finds

he knows when I 'm ****** or dying inside
in each other we're not scared to confide

whispers in my ears so softly blown
his soothing voice on the phone

kisses on my neck are sweet

I cherish our hugs goodbye or when we meet

its the little things that keep me stuck
you found me and it]s more than luck

other guys aren't worth my time
I'm so glad I can call you mine

-Alyssa De Marzo

We live in a world with Billions of people
Sleep under the sky with trillions of stars
Some long to venture but are trapped behind invisible bars

This boy of grey lives each day in a town of blue
Though you just met each other you pray he thinks of you

But this boy of grey has a heart of gold like the rays streched from the sun
Of course it's just first instinct you assure him his journey has just begun

You're a girl of red; revived your own heart when others left it dead.
Unlike the boy of grey with Heart of gold you're actually very bitter and have an angry soul.

Boy of grey with heart of gold
We don't always have to do what we're told
~Alyssa De Marzo

It takes
15 seconds to fall in lust
30 seconds to fall in love
2 seconds to fall on your face
And forever to fix a broken heart

Darling, the years have flown
around the earth and back...

And I still don't know what we are

I have a secret
No, I can't tell
I fear the pain I've already felt

Time and time again
I think back to when

My stupid choice had changed my voice

I feel like a waste
I feel like a sin

It's as if heaven's gate is open
but
I can't get in

-Alyssa De Marzo

Momma was born a hip hop head
She'd whisper beats and rhymes to me right before bed
She gave me my words when i was four
from then on i thought i needed nothing more
And for as long as i could remember
or at least since the 24th of September
She spited dad
promised me she'd always give me all that she had
Wasn't long until she broke it
2 years since we've spoken
but we manage
Momma checked out
left me and my siblings behind
left me alone to make sense of the world with half of her mind
And so here i am now
ripped from my bed
An old beat drew me to write about the love that's dead
12:39 am