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david mitchell Feb 2018
time flies by,
when the night sky,
shines so bright,
that my mind's eye goes blind.
i've had far too much wine.
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david mitchell Jan 2018
i flatline my way through life.
short, bittersweet, but only to a point.
david mitchell Jan 2018
i need a way,
to say,
good bye.
cause i'm,
giving up tonight.

i need a way,
that i ,
can find,
a sense of peace of mind.
cause i'm,
dying from inside.

i want a place,
to hide.
cause you,
and your heart,
are far too close to mine.

you need to run,
away.
far away from me.
so please,
do this just for me.

i need a place,
to lay,
tonight.
so i,
can dream of you tonight.
so please,
don't beg me to stay.

i'm not waking up this time.

-.. . .- -.. / -.. .-. . .- --
again like usual, this is technically a song, but i think it kinda works in poem form. hope you like a little at least. sorry for spewing garbage so often.
david mitchell Jan 2018
i think it's high time,
that we go,
back to the place,
that only we know.

i think that sometimes,
you don't know,
just where to go-
or how to grow.

i think it's high time,
that i know,
just how you feel,
it never shows.

i think it's about time,
that it snows.
so we can waste our lives
in the frozen grove.

i'll think of more rhymes,
just to cope.
i hope i die.
i hope you don't.

it's almost nine,
it's getting cold.
i called your phone,
but you declined,

so much for the grove.
i hope it never snows.

i think it's high time,
that i die.
all alone
in mid july.
the grove is metaphorical, i never actually went on cute dates in a snowed-in grove, but that'd be cool someday, maybe.
david mitchell Dec 2017
i'll sleep with you tonight
so i can try to find
some extra time
to buy myself
an extra life
so i can make you feel alive.
so i can bring you back to life.

i go to sleep at half past nine
so you find me asleep just fine
like you have at least every other night
since our last fight

i'll try to make my best amends.
i'll try and try and try again.
until you can finally find the lies
that you were living in

when you finally saw through to me
i swore that i could cross the sea.
but i never saw it truthfully.
i told you that i'd be just fine
when i felt like i would die
i told you that i'd be alright
so i could comfort you at night
so alongside you, i could lie
for the rest of my life.

i slept with you every night
just so you could try to fight
and live to see the burning light
of the rising sun at its height

i'll sleep with you again tonight
like we did, before you died.

i'll sleep with you every night
and try to find some peace of mind
i'll miss you every single night.
until the night that i can find
myself laying by your side.
until the night i finally die.

~

p.s. i loved you, at least a little
i can't decide if i thought too much of her, or myself, or even if one or the other really made a difference in the end. don't be too selfless, don't be too selfish. this whole thing is just a recap of what i think every night, it's becoming a routine, i miss her and what she turned me into. don't be like me.

we woke up at half past one
so we could try to have some fun
who knew that we'd never live to see
all the things we could have been
david mitchell Dec 2017
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I'll hold the hand that holds me back.

Flog my back, hear the whip crack,
then snap back to visions of lilacs turned black,
memories of sipped cognac and trapped tactics gone bad.
~
I'll hold your hand as you stab my back,
I'll lean into your attack.
As I learn to step back, react,
and maybe even adapt,
but only long after the fact.

I'll hold your hand as you hold me back,
entrap my heart, scrap it and let it crack.

~
hold on tight
david mitchell Dec 2017
when i see you,
it's all i do.
when i think,
of how i loved you,
it was all i knew.

so remember,
next i see you,
i'll always love you.
it's
all
i
do.
snap crackle stop, look at the heart you dropped, as foretold, as always, by aesop.
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