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Ashley Rodden Jul 2014
In your arms I lie
You're sleeping and I'm still
But wide awake because I can't take it
This is how I feel
Want you to set my mind at ease
I'm so worried and upset
Living with so much pent up regret
So if you would listen up
If you would listen hard enough
You would hear...
The sound of desperation
The sound of my heart wearing thin
I know you've heard it all before
But now hear it again
I would rather be dead
Than to see the love we have end
So we just keep starting over
Even though
The nights are blending together
The only way to get through this life
Is to forgive one another
See beyond the scars
And change the colors
Open back up to the ways
We used to love each other
Ashley Rodden Jul 2014
don't worry baby, it's all going to be fine because
your hands not letting go of mine
when worse comes to worse
i'll hold on tight even when it hurts
the ground is shaking trying to tear us down
but we won't be forsaken we know what we've found
our love saves us
the river may run deep but our hopes grow tall
our love saves us now
as we jump from stone to stone
just got to believe we won't fall
do you remember the promise?
remember when this was all brand new
how deep into you I fell
I believed in us then and I still do
with shivering hearts we wait
sometimes we even hesitate
but we're  still holding on
now that we're here we've come so far
so just hold on
there's nothing to fear I am right beside you
for all my life I am yours forever
love is not always easy but when it's true it sure is worth it
Ashley Rodden Jul 2014
I look around and I want you to be there
I'm missing all we used to share
Feeling so empty and sad
Missing the love we had
I'm so over being sick
Get me a doctor quick
Your kiss was the medicine
My world's crashing down, again
My only choice is to over react
Feels like I'm having a panic attack
Just want to let myself relax
Heart's beating way too fast
You think you know me all to well
But you never got the chance
To find out who I really am
Too busy having a breakdown again

When you cut me please know that I do bleed
Anything just to get your attention
When I'm sitting on display and
You pass me by without a mention
Knew this wouldn't be easy
But does it have to be this hard?
A thousand miles suddenly doesn't seem so far
What you leave behind
Makes you who you are
Roll the windows down and try to feel alive
I need the silence to escape your voice's piercing sound

The dark has caught the spark
That once burned in our hearts
Just need to walk towards the light
I'm crying and you're lying about last night
You're calling and I'm falling apart
Can't find a way to tell you what's on my heart
That won't cause a scar
The fire is dying down
There is nothing left of me to take right now just
Sit back and watch us dissolve and decay
Did you ever really love me anyway?

Let's stop concentrating on all the things we love to hate
It only causes us to separate
With dry eyes and steady hands
I try so hard to understand
Why you would rather be alone with a
Broken heart in a broken home
And I don't know how I should feel because
The lies make it seem so real
Can you feel this?
If so you can cross it off your list
I'm everything you wanted but
The mark you've always missed

We breathe in sequence
While trying to make sense
Of the situation we got ourselves in
Can't take another week of one way conversations while
Slowly losing interest
But, we are best friends
So close your eyes and kiss me like it's the last time
Need medication from all your words dripping poison
Days turn to night as I wish on stars in the sky but,
I Don't focus on the brightest because beauty is on the inside
I wish we could take all the bad things said back
Always feels like we're under attack
All these dreams being turned down
When my heart breaks did you know it makes a sound...?

I never meant to hurt you even when
Sometimes the thoughts have a way of making sense
But secrets kept turn into accidents
If you burn away the bonds of selfishness
The positive, the negative
Surely we could make amends
End this now we've come too far
Just take back the words that left us with scars
Taking the easy way out showing self doubt
The only thing that eases the pain now
Is to drink until you drown
Am I not everything you wanted me to be?
Tried my best and guess I lost
So listen for once and I'll spell it out
I need you, I need to hear your voice
I'm Juliet and you're the poison
Slowly sinking in
My means to an immaculate end
Ashley Rodden Jul 2014
I've lost myself along your way
And I'm honestly not sure that I care today
Because we're going no where
Tired of you tearing me down
I need a space to call my own
Need to find myself on this road that leads me home
Here I am waiting until you let me go
Here I am and now you're all alone
How long can we wait for things to change?
How long before we just turn to dust and fade away?
Need to figure ourselves out
Cut through the flesh of our own self doubt
Never thought it would be this way
I am the worst and you are to blame
You're in my bloodstream
Drying my veins until I'm just a silhouette
Of what you viewed as perfect
Discerning the subtle changes in our love's hue
The lies fall into pieces that I left for you
Now close the door and lock it tight
Then I'll know you're safe tonight
Turn on a song that means something
Believe I'm still there but you're only seeing
The ghost of what you wanted me to be.
Ashley Rodden Jul 2014
Take back the photos
For they break my heart
And I won't wait by the telephone
With only silence ringing in my eardrum
Don't let the color of your eyes fade
I can't stop thinking about your voice
Or the things you used to say
It's keeping me up at night
Salt from my tears rusting shut my eyes
The color of my heart is beginning to fade away
Like a bloodstained Hollywood ending
Just another night with a sad song
Turn the car key and sing along
I still believe the lies when
I look in your pretty eyes
Another hour in front of a mirror
Suddenly the scars appear so much clearer
I cross my heart and hope to die
You gave your all and so did I
With a shivering heart I wait
Seeing you is seeing red
Swallowing tears shed
Until they are out of sight
But not really gone
Even when I turn out the light
Wipe the blood from your eyes
It's a heartache that you can never satisfy
It's cold with frozen kisses
Frost on my skin from the cold embraces
Holding hands until knuckles start turning white
Nothing in this soul left to say to make things right
It's okay if you only see gray
You'll see color again someday
Ashley Rodden Jul 2014
I would like to think
That I'm immune
But I might as well
Face the truth
That I can't be saved
I'm addicted to love
I'm addicted to
YOU!
Ashley Rodden Jul 2014
Believe,
I miss your taste
I miss your smell
Past mistakes brought us here

Rescue me from everything as
Everyday I sit and wait
for more bad news
Until I have nothing left to lose

Please won't you just start making some sense
The Lord doesn't make accidents
I see the worst case scenario and
It's slowly letting go

Guess I could of sent more letters
And talked more on the phone but,
The signal was fading and
The ink running out

Words look good on paper
And sound better from your mouth
But, I can barely breathe as you
Sharpen your tongue
I can't believe anything you say

I'm the fire and you're the water
I'm the canvas and you're the color
I don't forget you
Even if we're not together

Please hold me tight
I don't care if I can't breathe tonight
Forget my lungs,
With jealousy they burn
But don't leave me alone

My heart's sand
Flowing through your hourglass
But time is up, let go of all we know
As our hearts break in two

I need you now
More than yesterday
So I standby and watch
this fall apart and fade away

I watch the pieces fall but,
I can't let go
Even though
                                       It's
                                              over
and I'm on my own...
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