It’s easiest to write about the rain
As it rains
And it was easier to write about the pain
When there was pain
But now I don’t write much
Because there’s
Nothing
And
Everything
To talk about
More than enough to doubt
Very little to figure out
Sometimes a personal critic to fight
Before any work is even done
Let alone done right
Levying with the fatigue to propel
To propel forward
For ****’s sake, not back
And it’s not so easy to write
When you just write
And it was not so easy to write
This right

By Arcassin Burnham

I don't really count my blessings
If I did,
I'd keep a notepad,
I haven't really learned my lessons
If I did
I'd be on the right path,
Or a bunch of outskirts pushing and landing
In my way and putting voices in my head to
Help me take away the pain of feeling the
Pressure to move forward in my life and
Better myself in this cruel and sick twisted
Planet where there are all false teaches,
No more fake speeches,
No more stars in the sky for people's reaches,
No more fun or sunshine
For the people that get stepped on and
Ridiculed,
No more keeping folks in line for all these
Stupid rules,
Things have been getting real vacant
leaving my life to struggle,
I will not die a coward.

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I've been on my own since the day
has gone
all my friends are gone
I'm just still at home
of course I'm all alone
I'm just waiting on......
the right day
I've been on my own since the day has gone
the skies are red
I'm feeling dead,
but I wanna die the right way
with something lodged in my head
I've been on my own.

i can't explain you
i can usually make sense
of these feelings i feel
but for some reason
this is failing me

maybe it's always going to be a mystery
how some people can just crawl inside your heart
and make you feel like you're finally home

i hope you know
i've never felt this way
about another soul before

and naturally i should be scared
but this is one of the most peaceful things
i've ever felt.

It seems like you're a shadow...
I know you're there...
but...
Why won't you let go?
It's already over...
Or was it because I gave it all to you?
Would you just let go and let me fall on my own...
Knowing I'll be okay?...

It's hard to watch you go
Whether if it was for the best
I loved to the rest
Of the attribute
It's a pain in my ***
To watch you leave me
And this letter that I write will be longer than the pain of me
And still I do sing, the songs to describe the bleed
Oh, there's tears on paper might mess up the words
but, I cant watch you go whether if it was for the best
It hurts.
And these tears on paper they understand me, oh they do
There's tears on paper, shed for you.
These guardian angels, they should be fired
These so called cupids they won't aim at the target
And these one and only lover cuddles
Seem to be messing with me
Oh, these tears on paper might mess up the words
But, I cant watch you fly away and don't say bye
And this hurts, me, bad.
And these tears on paper they understand me, oh they do
There's tears on paper, they dry for you.

scribbled heartbeats hidden in pages
breath pulsing against the cheek
a heart that thumps beneath fingertips
grass blades breaking under the weight of two bodies stacked
and mouths smacked together

time is irrelevant
the rest are just ghosts
& the world
will slide into shadow with the bright of conjoined lives

the romantics have been pushed to sea
the ***** in our skulls dissuading the heart from leaping
where did the skeptics slink from?
slide back into your passionless tomb

this life is a heartbeat long
and it’s being wasted
on pebbles painted yellow
weigh down your pockets and when you find True Gold
hope that you have the courage to slice open the sleeves
and let the fools tumble out

the aching brilliance of the universes cruel joke
that fear that keeps us from leaping in fully
its a sad slide into lonely suicide
when you find the golden one
hold on and let the Love destroy what you were
and blossom you into what never dies

In the field where the stars turn into roses
come, take a risk
that is no risk
for Love like this is an embrace
that will never end.