You are only one person
But you have placed a smile
On the cracked edges of my lips
That have dried of laughter
Over the many days of angst.

You are only one person
But you have shown me beauty
Not only from your soul but
From my own soul that now seeks
A light which engulfs all darkness.

You are only one person
But you have done
What a million people
Couldn't have done.

You have made me appreciate
The morning sun
You have made me smile
At the midnight moon
You have made me live
Within the light
Rather than hide
Within the darkness.

You are only one person
But you have
Made all the difference
To this one person.

The itch
Was meant to be taken care of.
I scratch until I bleed,
But he ****** my blood out already.

I lie awake in bed all day
Cover my head with the sheets
I'm lost and hurt and I'd die to know
Which path could take me to your arms (if any)

The things I've felt but can't explain
From soaring on clouds to biting my cheeks to dying inside
I can't imagine something harder than this
But that doesn't mean that it's not worth it

My mind often tells me to move on
To search the sea for other fish
But I've already found my Siren
We shouldn't only listen to our minds

So I turn to friends, hoping good advice
None has come so far
Your ears must be burning

My life has one purpose,
One purpose only.
That purpose has been encoded in drugs it may seem,
Lost without a flashlight,
Lost without a sense of being.
I've been on my own for this mess.
Death is the only positive moral I geuss.

In a sense...
I thought I knew who I was
But I only knew myself in that time
All these years have faded the familiar lines

You never step in the same river twice.

Love is like a bridge that connects
Two together towards a world
Where thoughts and sense of security
ran wild.

We create little worlds with each person
and with each person leaving
our little worlds vanish with them.

By: Cedric McClester

It was another time
But the same place
So if you see heartbreak
Written on my face
It’s because the memories
Aren’t easily erased
I remember the last time
That we embraced

I don’t know
If the thought occurred
To play the song
That we both preferred
Play it for me
Like you did for her
And I won’t say
Not another word

Play it Piano Man
Loud and clear
The way you did
When she was here
Let me feel it
Tickling my ear
Like it did
When I held her near

Don’t you remember
The good old days
When we left here
Sometimes in a haze
With both our eyes
Slightly glazed
Like I said
Those were the good old days

I don’t know
If the thought occurred
To play the song
That we both preferred
Play it for me
Like you did for her
And I won’t say
Not another word

I took her to the airport
And she boarded the plane
Begging me to come with her
But I chose to remain
Now I remember
The name of the song
“As Time Goes By”
Tell me if I’m wrong

I don’t know
If the thought occurred
To play the song
That we both preferred
Play it for me
Like you did for her
And I won’t say
Not another word







Cedric McClester, Copyright (c) 2016.  All rights reserved.