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Kevin Anderson Nov 2021
It’s 11pm and I’m I’ll messed up
I didn’t mean to waste your time
I’ll fall back in line
And I’ll be ok
And you’ll be ok
I know your giving up

All my exits look the same
Am I the only problem
Left to blame
I’ll hang my head
Its heavy lift
My anchor down
My tired smile
A never chance
You’ll soon forget

You’ll close this door
And run away
And I’ll become your cloudy day
Never was and never more
Came true today
Kevin Anderson Aug 2021
I liked being lonely with you
Aren’t you broken
Just like me

Life is not a love song
Life is finding
Love
Life is finding
Souls that burn
Souls that smolder
Souls that earn
Forgiveness

Each day I’m trying
I wait on better days
Aren’t you waiting as well
Even when there is no star in sight
Can you see the light
Can you see
That everything
Will be alright
Just like me

So I wait
Until you find me
Wait until the sky is a landslide
And you lift your head to see
That I never wanted to be
This broken piece
In your memory
Kevin Anderson Jun 2021
Can I call you tonight
You can tell me
what you think about me
Tell me what’s real
It’s just how I feel

I pull in thoughts of you
I’m tired of pretending
I don’t want you
I’ve always wanted you

What would it feel like  
To see you from the inside
To hear the echoes of love and pain
To hear your life ringing in my ears

And what would you do with me
Broken fixed and broken again
My heart wrapped around a girl
Who will never be mine
never resting my heavy head
on tender clouds that she hides in her hands

I won’t call you tonight
I would think it’s mad
And tell
Myself
It’s not true
Her and me
It’s not true
Kevin Anderson Jan 2021
Sam
You are perfect to me

With all your scars
from heavy wars
With all your armor
on the ground
you stood with arms
to hold my war
against your chest.

You are perfect to me

With quiet pain too loud to share
With smiles hidden behind your shell
I saw your soul and breathed it in
Part of you was part of me.

You are perfect to me

With shattered pieces on the ground
with perfect shapes of  perfect hell

And all the world was laying there for all to see and all to feel. You let me see your broken things you let me feel your broken things.

You are perfect to me

On gravel roads you met me there
You took my pack and layed it there
rest my friend you told me then
and held my lips to your cool drink and brushed away the loneliness.

You were perfect
To me.

My tears will sing and always bring
your song of strength
and hallelujah rings a different note of love
and pain and empty chords
of never more and I will love you even though
I understand
you had to go.

You will always be perfect to me
Kevin Anderson Jan 2021
My heart beats heavy from this day.

A breeze unfurls my saddened brow and blows through sunshine looking down.

I watch the world watching me and shrug the pain from this tree.

I feel the grief and let it pass
I feel it take
whatever’s left in me.

And when it’s done and when it’s free
it roams the sun and roams the breeze.

And all the world will move along
and the world will never see-
this tree of mine
arms outstretched like branches do
and leaves like tears reach the ground
watering roots I’ve dug so deep

Grief is a whisper in the wind
filled with tears
full of pain
full of gusts
That never remain

I raise my arms to let it pass
Lay my head and close my eyes and learn to smile through my knives.

I wait for winds to come and go...

feeling hearts that also know that grief can shake your solid soul
and bend
and break
to lose control.

And yet I stand
Refuse to bow
Refuse to go
Standing
Leaning

Telling the tree to love
Again
Kevin Anderson Jan 2021
I send this gift on Christmas Day

It’s not wrapped with bows or tags
Wrapped up tight with tinsel swag
It’s not a gift of silver and gold
or in a box for you to hold...

It’s not a stocking full of treats
Or fuzzy slippers for your feet
It’s not a cup of Christmas cheer
Or family gathered far and near

My gift for you will always be
Something felt but never seen
Something special in between
Your smile like stars upon my tree

And presents come and presents go
Melted fast like winter snow
My heartfelt gift to you sweet girl
Are words not shared outside our world

When you fall
Asleep

And dream of days

And gifts of love come your way

Always know
you make my heart
Feel like
Christmas
Everyday
Kevin Anderson Jun 2019
I wish you wouldn’t have landed where you did.

Landed like heavy snow in some barren field. Like a quite blanket covering a rough road. Gently falling and slowly building until it was too much to move.

And like the storm at first, readying yourself for the unknown, you yield. Waiting.
the beauty of the silence the release of power becomes soft and you give in to whatever will be.

You see the barren field clothed in good clothed in light and groomed like the clouds they came from.

And yet, it will melt and it will soften and it will leave it will give up its beauty for hard scrabble of roads we forever  walk on.

I keep looking for your beautiful storm to cover this trail. I keep shivering against other storms, my arms crossed to keep their cold away.

One beautiful storm opened the heavy coat I have always worn.

Close your eyes and close the heavy coat. Whisper winds of snow falling on hard earth. Listen to nothing listen to silence telling you this beautiful storm is not your resting place, wait for the melting and wait for this to roll away.
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