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I look at my life and see two roads. And I stand against the current, I'm standing between them and hoping I won't have to choose. I'm a laundry basket of jealousy, frustration and worry. I'm constantly walking on egg shells because I don't want anything to change. I don't want to upset you I don't want to anger you I don't want to lose you. So I hide behind someone who isn't fully myself. Because you know not yet who you are. And I guess I don't too. We are carcasses in this life and our paths will show what we choose to show. But your emptiness frightens me and I feel it my duty to fill you. But I'm torn between someone who cares and someone who can't. I'm torn because the perfect piece of paper I once was is no longer something salvageable. You aren't the same. So I guess I'm not too. But I turn to something that isn't stable to help me out of my own battles. I turn to a floating piece of plastic and expect it to help me stay afloat. These two roads are both a part of myself. These roads aren't a mangled lie or a twisted fib, They are who I am, just not to the full extent. You aren't you to the full extent. And I guess, I'm not too.
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Jul 3, 2016
Jul 3, 2016 at 10:08 AM UTC
I'm Not Too
I look at my life and see two roads. And I stand against the current, I'm standing between them and hoping I won't have to choose. I'm a laundry basket of jealousy, frustration and worry. I'm constantly walking on egg shells because I don't want anything to change. I don't want to upset you I don't want to anger you I don't want to lose you. So I hide behind someone who isn't fully myself. Because you know not yet who you are. And I guess I don't too. We are carcasses in this life and our paths will show what we choose to show. But your emptiness frightens me and I feel it my duty to fill you. But I'm torn between someone who cares and someone who can't. I'm torn because the perfect piece of paper I once was is no longer something salvageable. You aren't the same. So I guess I'm not too. But I turn to something that isn't stable to help me out of my own battles. I turn to a floating piece of plastic and expect it to help me stay afloat. These two roads are both a part of myself. These roads aren't a mangled lie or a twisted fib, They are who I am, just not to the full extent. You aren't you to the full extent. And I guess, I'm not too.
She wasn't herself so I decided to become someone else as well.
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Jul 3, 2016
Jul 3, 2016 at 10:08 AM UTC
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