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Can I please
Not go to school tomorrow
My eyes are swollen
I don't want to be seen
They've been dried
Poured out with
Anguish
Frustration
Hopelessness
Dejection
I want to hide
And the worst part
*Who do I turn to?
I opened the closet
and yelled at all the skeletons:

Get out of my closet!

I don't want your secrets!
I don't want your shame!
I don't want your ***** laundry!
You have been in here long enough!

I started tossing out the junk,
ridding myself of the mess,
like ruins in an old tomb,
Garbage that I have been trying to contain,
useless things flying everywhere:
Unfulfilled dreams,
unresolved anger,
old sadness,
unhappy childhood
etc, etc, etc....

Those bony beings started
making their way out,
grumbling because of
their harsh eviction,
clanking away down the stairs
and out of the house

Well, that felt lots better
but I'm not sure if they
all left for good

It will be time to do more house cleaning soon
I love you,
It said,
But meant nothing,
That was before,
Before the tears,
The sobs,
The shaking,
Before the nights,
Of loneliness,
Of confusion,
Of End Times,
Noise blurred,
Into one,
In my head,
Everything left to say,
I said nothing instead.
So.
Thank you,
Because I remember,
A little under a year ago
when I was in love with you
And it hurt,
And made me cry,
and now,
I'm just loving you,
so.
thank you for teaching me the difference.
And everything,
Is so much better now.
Can you take all my pain?
Bury it deep in the ground?

Maybe, a blooming seed of sorrow
Will soon rise up out of the cold dirt
And the sun and the rain might nurture it
With mercy, they might not crush its fragile beauty

Can you take all my pain?
Bottle up the tears and pour them in the ocean?

Maybe that is how the oceans were born
From all the tears from all the people everywhere
Who felt that the torrent of tears would never end
Depositing that gushing flood of weeping upon the ground

Can you take all my pain?
Write down all that hurts me and then set it to fire?

Watching the paper go up in a blaze
And bits of it taking off in flying embers
Floating its way up to the sky
Maybe that is how the sun got its pizazz  

Maybe......just maybe
Have you ever seen a swan cry?
No? Always so graceful?
A rose turn unpleasant to the eye?
No? Always so beautiful?
Has there ever been an ugly rain?
Just drops of water so dreary and plain?
Maybe you'll see a frightful sunrise someday?
Or perhaps you only chose to see it that way
Beauty is all around us
For those with open eyes
And with eyes so beautiful
Surely it's no surprise 
You cant have missed the best of them all
The very thing for which beauty was named
Surely your face can't always fall
Too blind to accept the blame
The rose is a rose
Day in and day out
The swan never knows
Of any thing called doubt
The rain falls whenever it please
Ignorant to the likes of you and me
But one beauty is a work of love
A fluid mosaic of life and song
Not born perfect like the wing of a dove
But shaped by years so very long
Highs and lows of every day
Like valleys and hills in your soul
Everyone come and gone away
Love and loss taking their toll
See, unlike the swan, rose, or rain
You could choose to be grace or pain
You became something amazing
Not a product of nature
You can choose to take today
And love despite the danger
You chose to weave voice to melody
Not like a bird oblivious
You chose to make someone smile
To be the best of us
So when the world seems so dark and grim
If into despair you're gazing
Remember the beauty of life is within
For you my darling are always amazing
When you find some one that finally fits
Like a puzzle connected at the hips
And your eyes collide with the touch of lips
And your days filled with some happiness
Hold on cause you never know
How far it will go?
How far it will go?

Where would we be today?
If we never looked away
Where would we be today?
With a little more faith

Of course all of us make mistakes
Of course all of us have to go away
But just holding on is enough
To take your breath away
And hold on because you never know
How far it will go
How far it will go

Is this how far you wanted to go?
Is this how long you were willing to wait?

Of course all of us make mistakes
Of course all of us have to go away
But just holding on is enough
To still take your breath away
To take your breath away

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