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Sep 2016
"What is the opposite of two?"
"A lonely me, a lonely you."

But I can't let this storm
Overcast my progress,
Nor can I let
My guilt
Destroy who I am.

There's only so much
A person can do
And there's only so much
I can accept.

And I miss you
And I'm sorry
And I can't
I can't
I can't.

Remind me of a reason
Why
I choose to live this way,
And remind me of why
I choose to be honest instead of lie?

It would be easier to pretend
That I never knew--
But the guilt is eating away at me,
So I know I know I know.

Don't take my silence
As a way to say
I don't care,
Take it as
I have too much to say,
And you're not here to hear it
And that's my fault,
I know.

You'd be proud of who I am now,
I think you'd like this me better.
I can't pretend I haven't changed,
But I've changed for the better.

I can't go back there,
But at least I can try
To remember.

I'd like to think the storm
Is here
Because someone's trying to say something.
I don't know.
storm siren
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storm siren  26/Neither/Hell or High Water
(26/Neither/Hell or High Water)   
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   Doug Potter
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