I collect so many beer bottle caps tonight, I decide to make you a necklace
Reminding you constantly how I am reckless
I string them together with my teeth so rotten
Hoping if you wear it, I won't be forgotten

But one measly necklace just simply won't do
I need something more impressive to give you
So I collect all the cigarette butts from my night
And make you a bracelet to make you look right

I'll make you a suit out of my used bandaids
I hope you like stuff that is all handmade

Moved to allpoetry.com

Moved to allpoetry.com

I don't know how to write happy
When I do, it sounds tired and sappy
So I write the truth
About how I am sad...

My poetry is the kind that gets stuck in your throat
It leaves a bad taste
And it makes you choke

I write things that stick inside of your brain
Words that trap you deep into my pain
I tangle you up in my sad tales spoken
Allowing you to see that I am  broken

You're talking to someone else?

Yeah, but it's different.

You talk to him everyday, you text him every night, he knows you... How is it different?

     I talk to you, I respond to him. I love you, I fill time with him. He’s there for me, I’m still waiting on you.

There is something beautiful in the way his fingers dance across my skin
and the shadows they leave.

It’s so disturbing to see what people come to
How quickly they ruin what might have been
It’s so disturbing to see people go from light to dark
It physically hurts to watch them fall

It’s so disturbing to watch your friends whither
As they turn their back on heaven’s light
It’s so disturbing to see the past disappear
To watch as history demolishes itself

It hurts to see people ruin themselves
People who were so close to you
Friends and neighbors moving on
And leaving you wondering what is right

It’s hard to leave the past behind
The memories you thought were life itself
Those moments you wish would last forever
Old jokes never told again

It can’t be stopped
It can’t be avoided
It can only be accepted
No matter how hard it feels at first.
And then forever.