Hey friend,
Put down the blades
This feeling surely fades
Put away the pills
Watching you live like this kills me inside
Don't hang that noose
Keep that rope loose
Acknowledge your feeling
It's not unappealing
Look at the people who love you, their faces
They know you're going places
Not in the ground
Let your broken heart be found
You are loved and needed
Even if no one begged and pleaded
You're meant for something
Imagine the smiles you could bring
If you stay
Come with me, friend, I'll show you the  way

Every story
Ever told
Held
The secret
To a soul

Conviction, certainty
Knowledge of the world
A clear understanding
Of how it all worked

I had all these things
A long time ago
The moment you'd speak
I'd know the response

No changing my mind
My worldview was set
Thought I was a delight
But I was a little ****

My expression changes
And the conversation turns sour
When your name is mentioned
Everything gets awkward

People talk of lessons learned
And things they’d never take back
But I know I’d get rid of you
Without a second thought

A pointless second heartache
Not even my first love
I was moving on with life
The moment you showed up

Regaining all my strength
I built up enough trust
To place in your hands
The beating sign of love

The night you told the truth
I felt my soul go numb
No tears in front of you
But I did shed them all

In the corner of a room
Cradled in my best friend’s arms
Curled in a fetal position
Choking on my bleeding heart

No, I don’t want to remember
The way any of this started
None of your eternal promises
Or the things I thought once mattered

If I got a second chance
To life live a different way
I’d go back and take from you
Every single thing I gave

Endless deserving subjects
It takes but one look around
Even in the smallest object
Poetry waits to be found

Yet we write with closed eyes
Failing to unveil a thing
Rhyming about our own minds
With a narcissistic ring

Selfish with my time
As well as my skin
Truth is I’m no good
For the little things

Great in theory
Like a bright idea
I lose my shimmer
If you come near

It seems that distance
Brings out my best
For as a stranger
I fare out well

I have but one vice
On days such as this
To live everything twice
In indulgent ‘what ifs'