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Jul 2011 · 679
To Sever the Tie.
Dow Chapman Jul 2011
I've tried to make this work before i go
But baby oh how can i say goodbye,
I have so much emotion fluttering
through the air right now,

Let me just say goodbye, and sever
this tie we have.
I'm telling you goodnight and forever
today.

The words i haven't said to you, is
the true meaning behind what I
actually am feeling,
Baby don't cry.

I'm filled with words that don't mean
anything to you, I'm not the one
you won't, and it's pretty clear.
So why don't i just say goodbye?

Well hear it is, goodnight and
forever. I'm breaking up with
you, severing the little trust we had,

And as my heart bursts into fire
I'll let you go and do me, the
actual me i Intended, so one
last time, I'm saying goodbye

And a goodnight.
Jul 2011 · 661
Stuck on You
Dow Chapman Jul 2011
Here's to all the broken hearts there could be,

She told me it was all the time we spent, how she could say
she loves me but walk out the door, going to see that boy,
but that's okay cause I know she'll be coming home to be
in my arms. I feel my heart slowly shutting off, every time
she leaves, but i can't help but to say goodbye.

I tell my self to let it be, let her have her fun and games,
This song stuck on repeat to the same old games we used
to play. I'm no longer the one in first place.
This makes we wonder if i ever was a player or  rather yet
just a spectator. It's okay let it be right?

I'll play blind while you think i haven't a clue to as what
your really doing. Hey, that's okay cause the truth will
be on my side, and when you falter and look for that
embrace ill be the first to leave, cause truly I know
I'm not the only one you share that love with.

Leave it alone again, hah okay?
I'll do just that and show you the way to my door, and when
you don't leave I'll just go, and just disappear.
Drop the car in gear and go my own way, like we never
knew each others names  at all.

Here's to all the broken hearts there could be,

She told me it was all the time we spent, how she could say
she loves me but walk out the door, going to see that boy,
but that's okay cause I know she'll be coming home to be
in my arms. I feel my heart slowly shutting off, every time
she leaves, but i can't help but to say goodbye.
May 2011 · 833
Poor Serendipity
Dow Chapman May 2011
How hard it is to believe in thou, when thou distrusts themselves, nor
the spoken word that departs from my own maimed mouth.
You maimed it though, feeding thou as if a baby, but your
brutality hence forth separated us and no longer are we a
conjoined twin but rather yet two separate beings, who wish upon
the same midnight star.

Speak up!
For the world has stopped on it's axis to welter in you
privy affair. Accustomed to thy nature, a forest of hindering
branches you portray as home, nether the less yielding you
furthermore from where your actual origin bellows.

Banished thee, as of criminal intent, but thou victim, and
victim thought of thou to be innocent.. then why banished?

I ponder thee..
May 2011 · 642
Rumination
Dow Chapman May 2011
Minutes to midnight mock me with a vicarious sneer,
they jump from the clock and swivel through my room.
They paint my name with markers made out of a point
that cuts me, drawing my blood for their own canvas.
But the walls cannot bear the weight so they crumble
leaving me exposed, I'm the target to a terrorist that
doesn't even exist.
I've counted my sheep, but even they got tired and fell
asleep, leaving me alone.
In my own fear I reach for the bottle and take that pill.
Never once questioning for a refill.
Tonight never wanted to be, so I turn and breathe out
my last breathe of hope I so gingerly hold on to.
Wishing to die, without a tear I cry, staining what's
left remaining.
Mar 2011 · 662
Wishes Never Come True
Dow Chapman Mar 2011
Hold me in your tight embrace as the saddened November rains begin to pour,
You see I'm only safe if I'm right here by your side, this I do not confide.
It's just sometimes I feel like I'm on my own, with having to fight for my own,
but yet I'm still so young and things just seem so far away. It's hard to imagine,
but this world has me, and has me good.
And so I let the rain soak every inch of skin exposed hoping to absorb as much
of it as I can in order to drown out my lies I so easily lay upon your mind.

Hold me in your tight embrace as the saddened November rains begin to pour,
I'll hold on as long as I can, but patients is not one of my virtues.
It's just that simple how I let you go, even when it was crystal clear you were near. Even till this day I catch myself singing our song, I stop myself only to be
interrupted by this chorus playing out of tune, and the beat so far from on the
dot. To know you were true was a joke at the time, but know I sometimes
wish I could have you back, but thinking of that only hurts.

So I forget..
And just leave it at that, cause wishes never come true.
Mar 2011 · 587
Mama's Words
Dow Chapman Mar 2011
Mama once told me,
Child were only grains of sand
and this world we live in is but
a shining tipping glass.

She told me never to be scared
when things aren't always what
them seem, 'cause time is a such
mysterious  thing.

Even at night I'd sit on my bed
praying that things would turn
out just okay, and daddy wouldn't
have to be gone.

But mama always told me,
child were only grains of sand
and this world we live in is but
a shining tipping glass.

After all mama would never lie,
she said she'd hold me safe till
the day she died, and in fact that
is what she did.

I just wish I could see mama one last time.
Mar 2011 · 532
Mystery Girl
Dow Chapman Mar 2011
My mind painted a picture of you,
You danced in circles
as you cried to the sky.

Your voice traveled the land
in waves, the echos shuttered
the land and the trees fell.

I listened closely to the sounds of
this largess nature, But alas I turn
up with nothing but an empty hand.

My mind painted a picture of you,
standing there half blistered from
the feverish sun, you melted.

I tried as I could to catch the drops
from underneath, and scoop the ashes
from the discarding wind.

Hold me my shadowed beauty,
Trick me not, for I'll believe.
Truth in fact you actually were never there.

My mind painted a picture of you,
rebuilt a hundred times, but never as
close as the real you could be.

Tantalized by your beauty
I can't but follow your trails,
For your overwhelming.

I'm consumed by an everlasting
love, In which lover was never there.
Distraught I find means to still.. hold.. on.

— The End —