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PaperclipPoems Jun 2017
Love is not enough.

It's not enough to love someone the way that I know how
Or show them I care when I can
It's not enough to do all that you can do
To make him feel like he's important.

People need more. They always do.
But we don't know this upfront
We always believe that love is enough
Until we're back at square one.

Love is never enough, I've determined
Maybe I just have no more to give
I'm doing the best I can to love this man
But it's just not enough for him

My love is not enough.
Never fall in love with a poet
for their words are sometimes lies
on occasions they're a shield
on occasions a disguise

They will take you on a journey
upon which they bare their soul
in a bid to ease your burdens
in a bid to make you whole

But in every word they choose
for the stories that they tell
lies a little piece of heaven
and a little piece of hell

Tormented souls we poets are
sometimes quite broken and despaired
in search of lost expressions
missed by others who once cared

Never fall in love with a poet
unless you're prepared to share their pain
to hold them close on the darkest nights
over and again
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PaperclipPoems Jun 2017
I hate you so much because I want you so bad
It's always a loosing battle trying to erase you from my head
You cause havoc that wrecks me, your finger tips shake my core
A passion so deep you have me begging for more
All I want is to get rid of you,
But you seep through every pore
Slowly drip drop to my brain
It's only when I imagine you with me that I feel somewhat sane
You're just a demon that I live with now
I hear your voice and feel your lips
Asleep or awake, I can't see past you
You cloud my eyes like an eclipse
I don't know what you did to me all those years ago
I'm struggling to move past you because you block my every road
Without you I'm unfinished and deprived
I'm in a manic-like condition
Having had a taste of you, I can say with confidence
You are the worst addiction.
I'm just a love addict - attracted to love that just lust's me
PaperclipPoems Jun 2017
I wear her rose petal eau de parfum
So that you turn your head when I walk by
Just enough to trigger that brain of yours
Into a ***** thought when I catch your eye,
Trick your senses to believe I'm her
Spark a desire to grasp me tight
I just want my lips all over you
Not for forever, just for one night.
PaperclipPoems Jun 2017
The way you turned my sweet heart into nothing
Was like watching ice cream melt to asphalt
PaperclipPoems Jun 2017
Shoot me up, just a taste
Numb my core with sweet novicane
Poison my veins, rippling clear across my brain
So strong that I don't feel a single thing
Not a pinch of delight, veering on the edge of insane
In a dream-like state
Soundlessly floating away.

I've met you before, Lucy
But this time I intend to stay
I'm captivated by your prison, chained inside your domain
In this realm of impurity, you are my desired escape.
Not drug related. Just that numb feeling I'm so desperate to explain.
PaperclipPoems Jun 2017
When all the world is busy
That is when I hear my thoughts the clearest
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