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Chris Hunts Dec 2015
To have the world in your hand, and then to drop it.

A million bucks on your person. Falling out of your pocket.

The pilot of a plane. Jumping out of the cockpit.

Watching you leave. And knowing I can't stop it.

Remembering the days, and nothing will top it.

The door closes in my face. And then you locked it.

Now I can't breathe, please baby stop it.

Chased too hard, the trail, I lost it.

Being thrown from the stage and into the mosh pit.

I miss you so much. My heart,you just stopped it.
Chris Hunts Dec 2015
I saw a shooting star last night on my way home.

It fell like a tear from its heavenly dome.

It reminded me that I am mad at my God.

I believed, I prayed, but it was all fraud.

I brought her to church

I held her when she cried

We made such sweet love

And she still left like the tide.

It all felt so right

surely she's the one,

she turned the switch off.

And my faith is now done.


It was the straw that broke the dying camel's back

I was too off course, I won't make it back

If you're not the one then no one else will

Your shoes, like your presence, were to big to fill.
Chris Hunts Dec 2015
The times I stop and think.. They always push me five steps back.
They make me think what if?
And then my heart attacks.
I struggled just to place- one foot ahead of the other.
And now im back where I first fell, drowning and being smothered,
by the relapse of your scent, I was tortured all last night.

But they say that’s it’s ok.
It was never meant to be.

But they said that about the moon.
And we have surely walked it’s beat.

So maybe if I try.
To sleep alone tonight.

I will figure out just why. We were never meant to fly.

But you mean so much to me. And I think that it is love. Because you're all that's in my head, you’re all I’m dreaming of.
And I cannot wish away, the feeling of your hand.
It's forever here to stay, on another man

And I hope you get the best.

You deserve nothing less.  

But in my heart you will always be "The one that got away." The one who's never coming back,

and surely now I am

five steps back.
Chris Hunts Dec 2015
When I joined, they said: "The hardest part of this job will be taking another's life."

How about watching her walk away, the one who was supposed to be my wife?

In basic training they said: "The hardest part of this job will be all the danger."

How about watching a lover, turn into a stranger?

On patrol they said: "The hardest part of the job will be staying awake through the night."

It wasn't hard at all, when she told me it wasn't right.

"The hardest part of the job will be pushing through."

No sir, it's knowing that there's nothing you can do.

When it's not you.

"The worst part of all this is knowing that their dead."

I'd take that, over the thought of her in another's bed.

"The hardest part will be maintaining traction!"

Loving at full capacity, but only receiving a fraction?

Trying to fix something you didn't break?

Failing and and becoming someone else's

*mistake
Chris Hunts Dec 2015
I am August. In each and every way. The Leo of a lifetime, as if sculpted by clay. April is misunderstood, perceived with negative emotion. But tell me, have you felt the sun? By sailing on the ocean? April is the beginning, starting new every year. Don't be sad, it's not your fault, you've been stuck out on the pier. So tell me true, do not start lying. Would you sail the open seas, with a tried and true lion?
Chris Hunts Dec 2015
She said, "It's Hailey, with an "i"

Like hail

Like the weather.

I asked, "Why?"

"Because you're unpredictable? "

She says, "No,  because when you have the grandest of plans, I'll ruin your day. "

I laughed.  And then when I had fallen in love, she left.

And I realized.

She wasn't just being cute. She wasn't just playing "hard-to-get."

She was warning me, pleading with me.

So now I say, "hello, my name is Sonny."

And they ask, "What? Like the singer?"

And I say, "No."

"Like the sun

Like the weather."

And they ask,  "Because you're bright?"

And I say, "No."

"Like the summer, like a drought.

Like a long time without water.

Without hail.
Chris Hunts May 2015
Don't ******* tell me that you don't remember!
The kisses, the feelings, your body in tremors.
Don't blame it on the whiskey for loving me tonight
I've waited too long, I fought the good fight
I've loved you for days, for weeks, for months,
To get to this point, it's my triumph
I'll never forget the taste of your lips, the weight of your body, the sounds you let slip..
I've taken you to mountains, ranges, and more
I tried so hard that my soul is now sore
The morning after, it's now all the same,
The look in your eyes, not wild, but tame,
The way you speak, so careful and planned
Not at all like the hours just spent before hand
It kills me that liquor is the key to our love
That sober you is so distant and cold
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