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Jake Feb 2015
I cant bank on my words
to change what's on my heart
My hands are calloused
but I'm still swinging in the dark
Something has to change
Help lines and hope wanes
It's been 400 days and I still feel the same
Baby lung alarm clocks
Substance fed anger
And I'm not moving anymore
3 hours of sleep is as good as it gets
Unloading threats; floating upon seas of regret
Weathering swells in a sinking ship
**** your pale skin, thin lips, and bony hips.
Jake Feb 2015
I can't get used to not sleeping.
And I scare myself to death,
Every time I close my eyes.
Burned deep inside, the face I never met.
I've come to learn, I'll never be free.
There won't be one single moment of peace
as long as you're forcing yourself through me.
And my backyard is graveyard for cigarettes,
but the grass isn't the one dying of cancer and regret.
And my knees were never weak.
Even when I held you on my shoulders;
and you refused to speak,
your face was screaming every day of the week.
I don't want to feel love through a picture frame,
and telling her I love her never felt the same.

And with it, it feels like I'm bound,
To live a long life without the taste of success.
To walk with broken feet on hollow ground.
And I've lost my way,
Counting blessings in the sky.
Drowning memories and clearing haze
trying to remember warmer days.
And I veer off paths, but never in vain.
While I pave my own, those pale hands kept me sane.
I really don't know what to do with this anymore at all. I've been trying to write it for 2 months now.
Jake Jan 2015
Because I fought for your fragile dreams,
and made the world cease to exist.
Jake Jan 2015
And when the fire dies,
I'll close my weary eyes.
And your words; a *****,
Burying all progress made.
And when it rains, it pours.
40%'s never made me so sore.
Jake Jan 2015
Do you think if I fell off your mountain,
And split my head in two..
You would see my thoughts,
and sew me back together again, too?

Just to..

Tell me I was brave,
that I was worth the save.
Tell me I'm what you crave,
that loving you is why I was made.
Jake Jan 2015
There's not a single star in the sky tonight,
Yet you're still lighting up my world.
Unearthing all my insecurities.
Calling what's left of me.
I can't go home tonight.
Not when those
eyes are as
weary as
mine.
Jake Jan 2015
And I hate that I hate this.

So I stare at all these blank faces,
And void occupied spaces.

*While eating my silence,
We're losing our balance,
Trying to stand on the shoulders of giants.
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