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 Mar 2018
Andrew Kerklaan
I was hesitant at first to tell you and a little scared to admit it,  but when I really thought about it,  one statement rang true

"Love is not time"

and that is what really stuck with me.

And this love that I hold now is for you
I love you Haley
 Nov 2017
Sam Greig-Mohns
There are no strings on these balloons
so instead lets just drift together
even if it's only for a moment
I'll be here with you
until you just
fly away
the choice is always yours to make but this is mine
 Sep 2017
Andrew Kerklaan
I have suicidal depression--
                                        and no,  I don't want to tell you about it.

I'd rather hide it from you (if I could)
And bury it the way you might do with someone you once loved

Maybe sharing their pain if only just for the moment...

I don't want you to sympathize with me either. It's not that kind of sad I'm afraid..

I need this to hurt me, because if it doesn't I won't learn that it isn't okay to feel this way.

A long and outlasting life will be my punishment for this.  I will die in valour and bury this axe where cessation lies dormant

Never to be shared with you

My sickness fully contained.  I will vanquish this demon inside myself.

I will starve before it feeds. I solemnly swear this exorcism on your behalf.

You will never know

My pain.
 Jun 2017
Andrew Kerklaan
I can't even believe how you hate me now. I literally watched and admired you all my adolescent years with nothing but love and respect for you, and now you can't even stand the sight of me.
My crush.

I watched you grow and change, watched you be in love with other men and even waited for a time when I wouldn't be leading you away from a path by which you would be more suitably rewarded.
My love.

But despite all of this,  I still couldn't offer you enough. I "wrecked" everything.
And yet I had never tried so hard to be the best that you could have in all my life
My family.

I failed you. And now also
Myself..

I'm sorry you couldn't understand the love that I had tried so furvently to share with you. I had hoped that things could be better than this.

But alas...

Perhaps you'll hear me now as a passing traveler's blessing...

As I say for the last time: good bye my friend,
"I hope you find you're looking for out there"
I always loved you.
 Apr 2016
Andrew Kerklaan
I wish I could of captured the contentment that you showed to me

Or even just still-framed it in my mind...



So I could look back and reflect upon it and see how you used to be contented in me
As I once was contented in you
I Always wanted you to look at me like that...
 Feb 2015
Andrew Kerklaan
I need a sweet heart

I've had enough of these sobs

I want to find you and I don't care who you are. If you love me and want me and desire my heart in your hands it shall be done.

But if you leave me on the shelf I promise when you come back to me your touch will leave my body in ashes as your feelings have already scorned me beyond that of any manageable repair

I'm too far gone to be brought back now

But I'll never give up hope that one day I will find somewhere to rest these dusty hands

That ceaselessly move to keep me from *fading away
I don't really care how or from where but I need to find someone to love and to be loved by... My life is just dismal without you.
 Jan 2015
Andrew Kerklaan
Where are you?

I'm sure you can't of gone far...



But it's the anticipation that gets me...

Every time!



I just don't know what to do with myself I guess

But would finding you really make that feeling go away?



(Or will we both just be feeling it?)


Possibly now worsened by the presence of company

Or magnified with the abundance of misdirection??


These feelings make me antsy

So much that when I look to my surroundings and try to feel you, I become lost again



I want to walk through the empty street calling your name

To which of course I will find no reply



No scampering shadows in open doorways or looming wisp of hair by the window sill...

I just want to find you



To cry out My love! My love! I've found you!

But where will we go when I do?



I just don't know

But still...



**I miss you
 Jan 2015
Andrew Kerklaan
Their eyes to the loose soil
  
Nobody says a word
  
Cries of anguish deep inside
  
But not a whimper is heard
  
Aching for the other half...
  
Left here alone to walk the path...
  
The dirt now packed and the people gone.
  
All are gone except for one
  
A single rose clutched in one hand
  
He kneels down to touch the ground
  
Placing his hand upon the stone...
  
Ever so softly he weeps alone.
  
Amiss without.
  
She was the one, to whom he'd of given his first born son
  
No longer here to lighten the load...
  
Taken from him, to her new abode
  
A prayer on the wind of summer's breath
  
Carried to the heavens, wishing for death...
  
A broken man his hand does shake
  
A rose left which no hand can take
  
Words forgotten never meant so much...
  
As his cheek caressed by a lover's touch
  
I love you never seems enough
  
When it is your heart that has been snuffed...
 Jan 2015
Andrew Kerklaan
I wish I could call you and tell you how the feeling remains...

How almost two years later I still have lingering dreams...

How up on that hill top I find myself lost...

And all that I can recall is how you feint disinterest but even apart still played on my desires

You never looked more beautiful to me then in separation beneath the fireworks light...

I recall how the trip home seemed shorter somehow and how even days after I would still reminisce...

The truth is that I still miss you but I just can't bring myself to say

Too afraid I suppose..
That maybe you don't feel the same

So with my heart in my hands I bid fare thee well. Good bye my friend...

May your hopes and dreams be fulfilled
Lingering feelings
 Jan 2015
Andrew Kerklaan
I yearn for the day that I may relish this glorious triumph with someone I truly love

Standing on pedestals that we would put each other on with our own romantic lusting

Flawless in the eyes of one another

I will share the world with you
~
In the eternity that we create
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