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If only your mother would have loved you right,
maybe then you would know how to love a women.
If only your father would have stuck around,
maybe then you would know how to be a man.

Ifs and onlys all akimbo
leaves me confused, my heart in limbo
what is what and who is whoodoo
love is love, not gris gris voodoo


But I wouldn't expect
for you to know that when,
you don't even know your own worth
If only you knew that you aren't worthless

Can't make excuses for my mama
she carried on without a comma
but i never knew my dad
the best father I never had


Maybe if you knew your father then,
you would be more forgiving, more loving
If only you knew how much you meant
to your mother, your father, this world

If I truly meant something
perhaps it would mean less suffering
my momma loves me, that I know
but my dad got drunk..and just said no


If you only knew....
But I guess that you don't.

Maybe I never, ever will
but I let my heart, find love..still
if there's some way I can treat you better
teach me how....show me, to the letter


I wished that you loved yourself
then, maybe you would know how to love

I can only pray you'll show me,
take the time to get to know me


I can't show you.
You'll have to figure it out
I can't show you how to love yourself
Only you can

I am a work in progress
merely a work in progress


I can't help you if you
won't let me in or forgive me

Here is my invitation
my forgiveness
my welcome mat
please......enter this wounded heart


If only you knew...
that I was wounded too

I can heal your wounds
wipe away your tears
just let me inside,
your heart is where I long to live


If you look on the inside then, you might find
a scared, insecure and lifeless girl.
The girl I've spent most of my life trying to hide.

*Oh, but you are so full of life
the kind of girl who could be my world
no need to fear life any longer
grab onto my heart and we'll both grow stronger
no more hiding...who is beautiful
it's you, it's me...so beautiful
and as for insecurity
i'll believe in you & you believe in me
If only you knew...
Copyright 2015
(Just meaningful words)
 Dec 2015 Coleseph Nelzsun
Cole
Moonlight reflections off salt water
Bodies tan
Warm sand
This is home

Moonlight reflections off raindrops
Guitar strings strumming
Crack of lightning
This is home

Moonlight reflections off bare walls
Soft skin
Entangled limbs
This is home

Moonlight reflections off blue eyes
Inside, a beating heart
With skeleton armor

I am home.
 Dec 2015 Coleseph Nelzsun
Cole
13
 Dec 2015 Coleseph Nelzsun
Cole
13
Caffeine-induced daydreams and you appear.
All I know is this should be a nightmare
But I can't focus on anything except your eyes,
Those forgiving browns that never would say goodbye.

Tell me old darling have you been by our spot?
Where we would both drive an hour to sit and watch
Passenger planes that never seemed to land
And fireworks igniting the night, while your hand
Never left my thigh and mine your neck.
I tried so ******* hard to forget
Those endless star-filled eyes
That refused to share their glory with the unlit sky,
That knocked down my walls and pierced my soul.
For the first time in my life I felt completely whole.

Tell me my baby what's it like at work
To sit at your desk, look around, does it hurt?
Do you remember the night that we broke in,
Have flashbacks to the laughs and the teenage sins?
Our tracks, you tried so hard to meticulously clean
While I just sat, mesmerized by your smile's gleam.
Do you still walk through the park overlooking the bay?
It was saturated with rain that one summer day
You introduced me to art in all of its greatest forms
And our secrets were shared, promises sworn.

Tell me sweet honey do you dream of me too?
Reminisce the fond memories that passed by all too soon?
I can still feel my hands running through your soft hair,
Your warm arms wrapped around me with such care.
A constant comfort of soft words spoken,
Always putting me at ease, confirming emotions.
Each night I drove home with a smile so wide,
Your scent on me still, those eyes on my mind,
Together not knowing that sometime soon
We will have seen our final moon.

Why I'm thinking of you, I cannot guess,
But my mind's a mess and my heart's a wreck
So maybe, just maybe, I miss what we had.
To put the record straight– you've done a hell of a lot of bad
But this is a simple dream, not a grim nightmare,
So thank you, for all the wonderful moments we've shared.
I never liked the color brown before I met you.
She told you she was afraid of flying
So you grasped her hand tightly as you both jumped and wings sprouted from your backs

She told you she was afraid of commitment
So you sat back and waited patiently while showing her warmth and love

She told you she was afraid of falling
So you held her close while off the ledge you both fell. Making sure it would be you who first hit the ground
One day
#jump #fly #ground
The stage has always been my home.
The great curtains acting as a dome.
Memorizing lines, my get away.
Until you came and thought you would stay.
It was alright for a while,
You were everything except vile.
Soon you became by hope.
Turning my world into your  kaleidoscope.
You swept me off my feet.
I learned the kinetic theory of heat.
That was just what you were doing.
My heart you were pursuing.
The curtains acted as a dome.
Then I made you my home.

*K.M.W.
Dear Dangerous People
The moment draws near
A time I must choose
Between compassion and fear

Arrested in spirit
The primitive divine
So human in nature
Yet lost in time

Shall you come and join our party
Your heart we hope to steal
Won't you come and join our party
Dress yourself to ****!
Thank you Pete townshend for the last two lines.
Thank you Dearborn MI. Muslims for finally taking a stand.
I would love you
True and free
I would love you
In spite of me
I would love you
In that blouse
I would love you
Way down south
I would love you
And do whatever you say
I would love you
But I'd rather just get laid!
Traveler Tim
Re to 02-18
I'll push my feelings down
For your sake.
I'll bury them so deep
That I won't feel anything
Anymore.

We're just friends
We're just friends
We're just
Whatever you want us to be.

I'm just playing along
Until I forget those feelings
Buried so deep down
In my heart.
When I'm done with this body and leave in a hurry
I don't want you to cry nor to stay up and worry
Don't be sad, you know how easily I bore
Your love shook and rattled me to my core
In my departure the last vision I'll see
Is of you smiling right back at me
Do know I leave only because I must
That our love transcends all I want you to trust
When I'm done with this body and start a new journey
Remember that your love is engraved deep within me
Goodbye for now
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