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Mar 2020 · 156
I
LCM Mar 2020
I
I’m lost and I’m confused.
I don’t know anymore if I’m trying
I don’t know how to tell
If I’m trying to forget
Or trying to remember.

Do I love you?
Do I hate myself?
Who am I anymore.

I’ve built my life trying
To fix mistakes
That won’t be fixed.
That can’t be.

I don’t know anymore if I’m trying.
Trying to love you.
Or trying to forget to.
Mar 2020 · 160
Fault
LCM Mar 2020
I’m angry.
I’m angry with myself.

Because I’ve been letting
You hold me down.

Hold me back
And make me forget.

There are so many things I wanted
And I gave them up.

To try and fix mistakes
That shouldn’t have been made.

I’m furious with myself.
I’m angry and I know

There’s someone to blame.
And no one.
Mar 2020 · 126
Control
LCM Mar 2020
I don’t want to parent you.

I don’t want to fight for every second.

I don’t know who you are.

You lie and lie.

I’m tired of being the one.

That takes care of everything.

Except myself.
Mar 2017 · 436
Something True
LCM Mar 2017
The broken wing,
The bird too lost to sing,

The quiet sea,
The frost upon a pine tree,

The quiet song
The roaring throng

An angry mountain,
A broken throne

Whispers of something far
Something true

Mistakes and imperfections
Hiding meaning, threading bare

Reaching hands, pleading eyes,
Unattainable, unyielding, far off lies

Something true.
Mar 2017 · 1.9k
The Loner
LCM Mar 2017
They say we’re crazy
When we care too much
When we don’t care enough.

They say we are too emotional
When their little lies and broken words
Find a way to creep inside our guarded hearts.

They find a reason to tear apart
Every beating unbroken heart.
They whisper and they talk down from behind

When we give up, when we decide to be alone
When we must travel far, far from home,
It won’t matter how you act, what you say or who you know

Because they’ll find a way to call you crazy
To attack without any pomp or show.
The loner will always be crazy,

Failing to conform,
Acting different than the norm.
If you guard yourself and don’t let anyone in

They’ll find a way to make you pay.
Mar 2017 · 420
Marriage
LCM Mar 2017
Marriage.
The day you get married.
It’s not who you have been,
Or are now,
Today is about celebrating
Who you both will be
Together-
From now until forever.
Mar 2017 · 304
My Choice
LCM Mar 2017
I can hear it in your voice
I can see it in your eyes
I watch it in your smile

The way you looked at me...
The way you thought of me...
It's gone.

I know I made a choice-
I know you could hear it in my voice.
I didn't let you in

I said no- I couldn't even begin
My fears disguised by rationality.
But where does that leave me?

Behind? Forgotten? Alone?

I can hear it in your voice.
Please don't leave me
       Without a choice,

Please don't leave me-    
Behind...
Forgotten and alone

With my choice.
Mar 2017 · 262
The Past Doesn't Last
LCM Mar 2017
So you say it's hard to watch people change,
But it's not really.
It hurts to see someone grow apart from you
But you're changing too.

What hurts isn't to see someone you know
Become someone you knew
It's worse to accept
You can't know if what someone used to be
Is what they remember too.

To hold a memory close to your heart
Is different than seeing a memory ripped apart.

You say it's too hard to get over the past...
But it's not really.
It's much worse to realize
The past really doesn't last.
Mar 2017 · 268
Over Me
LCM Mar 2017
I can't watch you get over me-
I can't wait around and see
 
I don't want to watch it in your eyes
I am so so tired of goodbyes
I could try to let you in-
 
But I can't listen to the cold creep into your voice.
I can't just watch without a choice.
 
I gave so many reasons... But now-
I see. 
 
The real reason I said no- 
Was because I couldn't wait and see
I couldn't watch- 

Wait... and watch you get over me
Feb 2017 · 583
Potential
LCM Feb 2017
He had the world in his pocket.
But he was always afraid to look.

The first up to bat
The last on the hook.

He was a cool contradiction.
A child of a man.

Selfish yet caring
Honest but lost

He was beautiful and strong.
But self-conscious and oh so wrong.

Afraid to love
But at a loss concerning the cost

He had the world in his pocket
If only he would try

Maybe just maybe
Perhaps- he could learn how to fly.
Feb 2017 · 496
In the Distance
LCM Feb 2017
Sometimes, when the deepest recesses of my soul are missing you, I wish I could hold you.

I wish I could hold you.

I wish I could hold you- like the last flicker of candlelight on a dark nostalgic night... like I wish I could hold the last rays of sun at the end of a perfect day... like I wish I could hold all the pieces of pure joy that melt through my fingers when I think of you.

I wish I could hold you and the harder I try the further you feel. I wish I could hold you and I wonder if I could ever hold onto you and some piece of your soul so tightly you couldn't be anyone else's but mine.

Then, that is when I feel like I'm losing the last moments of light, and I wonder if you will come again-

like the morning,

like the day,

like the candlelight...

Or whether I will lose you for trying and be plunged into the deepest night.
Feb 2017 · 665
Seashells
LCM Feb 2017
There is a boundless sea
Sea between you and me

I found quite a vicious disconnect
Between what you say and how you act
I fell in love with loving you
I fought so hard I thought you knew.

This the difference between
Loving me and loving you.
Lines you etched through and through.
Things you lost

And through the toss
Time will follow and this long sea-
Will grow and grow between you and me.
The long lost wishing well,

The past at last
Will cross the sand.

Bleak storm cloud anger
Regretful rain and denial.
Danger in white to gray.
These lines crossed in the bay;

Black considered white
Gray around the dock.
Tears of rain locking fate
Closing fast, blocking light.

In the end dry land covered
Memories will wash aside
Lost at sea
Drowned by land.

The grains of sand
The moments in the past
No more holding fast.

Cares and thoughts
Erased and torn away
Vivid at night, the rocking tide by day
Land lost in a selfish hand

There is a boundless sea
This the sea between you

…The sea between you and me
Feb 2017 · 687
What I Would Have
LCM Feb 2017
What I would have done,
For you.

A quiet knocking on the door,
A quiet rapping through the floor
A quiet voice sweet and soft
Growing louder, hard to ignore.

I hide under the sheets,
Terror fleeting,
Numb and unprepared,
Even as I know I must,
I twist and turn and-
I can’t hold back
My life will change

I tried to close the door,
To stifle that tapping under that floor-
I guarded my heart
But walls and sheets are closing fast
None of this safety can last

I know I must turn
So many moments pushing through
My entire future, fading past
I know what I must do,
I must go with you.

I know what we will be
I will change for you
I cannot be free
It will never again just be me
I would do anything to protect you
Change my life to be with you

But as I reach-
As I tell you what I will do
What this love is that I feel for you

Suddenly jaded, crushed and worn
Bearing under that deep, rank well of guilt
You are pulled away
Screaming and tearing

A darkening wave of blood- and so many tears
Every single one of my worst fears
Sad, sick and twisted turn of fate
I wasn’t ready for you
And now I’m much, much too late.

They tell me I couldn’t have stopped it,
I couldn’t have protected you.
“I need to feel in order to heal”
But there is no knocking on the door,
No quiet rapping through the floor.
Nothing…. no quiet voice,
                      No one is asking anymore.
Feb 2017 · 326
Starlight
LCM Feb 2017
Wandering lost through the night
Not long last, until morning light

Blue moon bright, fading sight
Lonely owls echo in the night

Lost starlight.

Stumbling, trekking, across the trail
Darkness covering mourning cries.

Cool dark breezes lost and still
Not afraid, not to fight.

A tired wood cabin glowing still
Shut so tight, no strong ties

Low voices laughing
Harrowing the passing.

I stop near flickering candlelight
No open door, no place to rest

I break a fall, then pass by,
Through the trees, silence calls.

Emptiness and sorrow by my side
Cool nighttime friends, no demands

So far ahead
A village breaking the valley trail

Small homes shut and still,
The cold night beckons, vast and pale.

Low voices call, pleading faintly
Asking me to leave the night,
To lose the trail.

I push on past I don't belong.
Not afraid, not to fight.

On the empty road
Through the narrow sign
Into the tall trees, lost by design.

I seek the darkness, the silence still
Loss and mourning heavily borne

I will not stay
Even if I may.

Wandering in the cool darkness,
I will not stop or find a friend.

Into the night, not to falter
Empty sorrow, mourning last

Darkness falls, tired and bent
Fading, blue moon sent.

Not afraid. Not to fight.
Not to rest until I find the light.


No stars are out tonight.
Feb 2017 · 373
Tonight
LCM Feb 2017
Vibrant colors of the world fade in turn
The parts of life that make the soul ache
That make bones chafe-
I found beauty in that darkness.
I found some small piece of paradise
In dark eyes,
In lost goodbyes.

— The End —