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Ashley Rodden May 2014
As poets we write
love letters onto tear stained paper
Where the ink sometimes fades
Like our love; like our poems
Mascara runs down a tear soaked cheek when there's
No way to rewrite the void left by your best friends disappearance
No way to take back words once spoken
And you can't erase what is in the stars written
Ink from our love letters faded
My words for a heartache traded
My heart torn apart, smeared into a work of art
My blood runs thick with ink
At least that's what words lead me to think
The melody dies away that was fine tuned just for you
And I wonder which will run out first my ink or these black tears
I now cry for you
It's not always easy putting into words what you feel
Just remember darling to turn the cards slowly as you deal
Our love's ink once so perfectly written
Now is smudged
The paper disintegrated
As my tears fall smearing ink across letters
Once written between us as lovers...
Ashley Rodden May 2014
Good intentions don't mean a thing, if that is all they remain..
Ashley Rodden May 2014
My heart I can't control
for you rule my soul.
Ashley Rodden May 2014
The first summer we spent together
Is one I'll never forget
We weren't looking for each other
Just looking for an escape from the messes
We thought we made
And it's funny now
we can almost see who we are suppose to be
Those late summers we spent,
staying up all night talking
I'd ask " do you think we'll make it?"
You'd say "I'm sure of it because you give me hope"

You still have all of my heart
There's too many times I have to say
I could have been better and stronger for you and me
Because I want you always to feel okay
and I hope you always believe with me
Let people talk and talk
Let them say what they want
We will laugh at their thoughts
Because they don't know what we've got

Every year that goes by, a year older we become
How crazy is it to think that...
Someone could waste their whole life, helplessly,
Just patiently waiting for a love like you and me?
I've been waiting my whole life
For someone to save me,
Bless your beautiful heart

Is it naive to make plans that seem so far away?
There's a reason I feel this way,
You're sleeping alone,
and I'm wide awake
When you dream of me tonight, keep me close to where you are
Lay me down,
And tell me everything will be alright,
  This could mean everything or nothing at all
You take what is real and
I'll give you my all

Let's not wait, let's love right now,
here where we lie,
Outstretched to wonder why we don't belong here
You deserve so much more,
so I'll give until I'm all gone

Forever I know your face
And ever take my place here by your side,
Like a ghost into the night,
I'll be the shadow at your door,
I'll be the moth into your light,
Even though you deserve much more
Thunder storms will never shake us
Lay me down, kiss me
like I am your only true friend
Because my love for you knows
not of a summer's end
Ashley Rodden Apr 2014
My stomach still gets tied in knots
when I know we are about to talk
And the problem isn't you it's me
Cause I still try and push you away
I just get so afraid
because I know
I couldn't live without you now
and
I never want anyone else

If you stay with me tonight
I can show you
what my dreams are made of
as I'll be dreaming of your face
You've been away for so long
and I've missed you
I can't imagine being anywhere but here
right now with you
I could sing you a song
But words put to a tune
could never explain fully my love for you

I fell in love from the moment of our first kiss
and the rest has been history since
Love is forever
and that's all I need
I can't promise that things won't get broken
But I swear I'll never leave
Please just stay here forever with me
I can't fall asleep
I lye awake in my bed at night
Just dreaming of you
and I fall in love all over again

The way we are is the reason
I'll always stay
as long as you're here
I know I'll be okay
I couldn't just love anyone
I was created to love just one
The things I get so concerned with
really don't mean a thing
Because my heart is with you and
I'll love you to the end
Ashley Rodden Apr 2014
I'm tired of reading only fiction
Trying to find some truth between your lies
And I lie awake at night with blue eyes that no longer cry
All I know now is what I feel inside

You were broken the day you were born
It was dark even when I held a light for you
But that was in vain
Because you remain a promise broken yet
to this day

When I was constantly fighting the current
I forget how to live
And I tried to reach you
But I ran out of strength

Ecstasy now is all you need
Because you're so vainglorious and
The world you live in is too fast where
Nothing's real and nothing lasts

Your lust turned to anger
And I remain here
But I don't trust at all or know how true love feels
The *** and loneliness
Take what's your's and leave me what's left
I'll survive this though
I maybe torn to pieces
Blind and waiting for a reason
But I'm still in love with all your sins and
Where we stopped is where I begin

It's hard sometimes to deal
When I can still remember the way you feel
Now I'm just an angry girl
Drowning in this petty world
Because I swallowed all your bitter pills
But I don't need now what you ain't got
I've killed myself from the inside out

I wished for things I did not need
And what I've chased has not yet set me free
I still get scared but I'm not crawling
Even when everything seems all wrong
I won't be completely broken

My head is full of doubt
But your lucks soon to run out on you
And then you will see why dreams don't come true
Must be hard to see when you're constantly choking on your regrets
and what you think is the truth in your head

I'm not like you with your faceless lies
And your cold dead heart and empty black eyes
I'll make it through
All your hope maybe gone but
I'll ****** if you'll take away mine too

I was in love with the things I tried to get you to see
and believe
Now you're just a long lost dream to me and
I will never love someone like you again
Because you were my heart's demise and love's bitter end...
Ashley Rodden Apr 2014
Got him wrapped around my finger
Constantly trying to change his ever impressive mind
Better watch how I treat him
He may lose his mind
He told me twice
Better watch for him walking towards the door
And not thinking twice about doing it
Guess I better bat my pretty blue eyes
And shake these curvy hips
Because love's not keeping him here

Love's just a game
No matter who thinks they win
The outcomes always the same
So before I pick up the strength I need to leave
Along with all the things you said
But would never do
I want to understand this thing we called love
Between me and you

You think you had me all figured out
But keep stepping Prince Charming
If you think you're one of a kind
Because if I told you once
I told you twice
You're pretty words just sting my ears and blur my eyes
A boy trying to be like a man
No love's going to save me
Just look into my fiery eyes
You can't figure out what's on my mind

For the love
For the pain
For all the ways I wished you'd change
For the way I never will
Hide the feelings I feel
For the good times
For the bad
And everything in between
Here's a toast to life lessons and broken dreams
For games we play
Looking back to see
How big our love started out
Then how small it came to be
To never giving up
For rising above
To all the pretty dangers of love

We're only humans but we have good hearts
We tried hard but were cursed from the start
We crossed the bridge with our eyes wide shut
Been swimming in the river of desire
But could only hold our breaths for so long

Faith is the only way to heaven
Grace can't replace the hurt inside
We've made this mess
Now in it we will lye
You turn your back on me
And I turn you around for months
I've been lost and you're not slowing down
Been playing with fire until totally consumed
Tell me to my face that I'm wrong
But you can't catch me now
I'm too far gone

In a world full of liars
There was truth in our song
But we can't hear it anymore
It's coming from the part of our hearts
That should never say goodbye
Drowning in our lover's cries
Everything I ever had
Has disappeared from your eyes
Everything you ever wanted me to know is now invisible to mine

Days slip by running from the past we had
No where left to hide
This poison is more than we bargained for
We are broken
The space between us empty now
Buried below
All you have to show now is absence from my life
That's something you always managed to get right
And I kept paying that toll
Always upset looking at you
Tears streaming down my face
An empty or half-filled whiskey glass
Doesn't matter it all goes down the same

It's dark now like an eclipse  
And I can run but I can't change
The answers or what I hoped they'd be
Now my questions fade like shattered dreams
You were always right
Even when you said you loved me

No control over this now
So why continue to try?
I still find my self-esteem in your dreams
But to get your attention there's got to be a better way
I just want to know why
Because this makes no sense to me
I can't change what you say
And you're tired of playing my games
Our words just play ***** little tricks
And leave us feeling ashamed
So can you tell me now...
Who is the one to blame...?
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