I feel as if
it will take more than a silly poem
To mend my broken soul

I need a listening ear
A friend
Someone who will make me not so alone

I couldn’t tell you how I feel
Cause you’d think it’s your fault
But it’s not

My heart, it’s so dark
And my mind
Is even darker

Do you know how easy it is
Finding the light in someone else
When you’re surrounded in

Desolating
Enslaving
Agonizing
Tyrannical
Hopelessness

I wish to be free
Of the the weight
That holds me here

Let me be
As light as a feather
And float into the endless sky

Beauty is she
The one who holds my heart
It is with her
That I do not wish to part

She left flowers on the inside
Put oxygen in my lungs
Gave me a forever
Of intertwined tongues

She painted my future
Beginning to end
Starting with the broken past
She chose to amend

So as long as she loves me
The flowers will stay
And the oxygen in my lungs
Never will stray

This life I was given
Has caused me nothing
But sorrow and grief
And that’s why I can’t possibly wrap my mind
Around the fact
That life is a beautiful thing
When nothing beautiful
Ever happens to me

I refuse
To keep emptying my cup
To overflow yours
For I have given all that I can
Far too many times
With hardly a single drop
Left for myself
While you,
With your exorbitant porcelain
Laden with the finest wine
Has watched my cup chip and crack
Slowly desiccating back to the clay
In which it was fashioned

I think someway, somehow
We both knew
This would end in heartbreak  
We were never meant to be
But I kept trying to glue
The fragile pieces of our existence
Back together
Because I felt like
You were worth fighting for
And I don’t know who I am
Without you
But I’d like to find out

Her beauty can be compared
To that of
A modern renaissance piece
That takes a truly tasteful eye
To appreciate
She is and of
Alluring captivity
And all the while
I stand in awe
Of her monumentality

When people ask
“What kind of poet are you?”
I often reply
A sad one
And
Not inherently because I always am
But because sometimes
The sadness is easiest
To get lost in
And I often find myself
Needing to be lost

You’re the cherry on top
of an immaculate shake
With a taste
That’s just as sweet

You’re a mesmerizing sunset
Just beyond the horizon
With a view
That’s just as beautiful

You’re a statue carved out
By a careful artist
With a touch
That’s just as angelic

You’re a melodic rhythm
Orchestrated by talented musicians
With a voice
That’s just as captivating

You’re the smell of mountain air
That keeps my lungs full
And you give me a heart
That’s even fuller

I knew of a place
Where the night met day
And the stars danced freely
Under a warm sunshine ray

Where the cold and the warmth
Would perfectly intertwine
In a hypnotic rhythm
Catapulted through time

Where dark and light
Could both peacefully exist
Just beyond the horizon
In an altered state of bliss

I knew of a place
Where the night met day
Until a time came
When it was no longer that way

Your love is the fruit
Of the poisonous tree
That Adam once
Took from Eve

Tell me how is it
I couldn't see
That you were slowly
Killing me

Your voice is euphoric,
You're a siren of the sea
I'm not sure how I didn't notice
The waves crashing deafeningly

Maybe I was too entraced
In the way you spoke
Of the all the things
That you loved the most

Maybe I was too desperately
Clinging onto the hope
That your love would be the cure
Not a lethal dose