It wasn’t an overpowering smell but I knew it was coming Even before I could smell it I can still remember walking to the shower and passing by your room Fumes drifting out like the vapor in a Hollister doorway Only the dark clothing store was never as inviting as your room Not in a comforting way, like a quaint house or camp fire invites you closer But in the way that apple invited Eve As if to say… “I dare you”
I will never hear jingle bells the same Or be able to listen to Mac Miller without your voice singing in my head Because it was so annoying having you loudly sing at the side of my head But now it’s quiet, too quiet Your croaking voice isn’t mutilating the symphony of car horns and street noises any more I realize now however I preferred the musical chaos of having you hang out with me
This is not a love poem This is a… This is an… This is an I guess I know how I feel too late poem An I guess I should have said this poem
But without the absence of something we often don’t realize what it meant to us
You’re gone… Not dead, you didn’t leave me, not a dramatic departure You were forced to move Due to your own stupid actions
After all I guess it was me who told you the reason to stay in a certain place can’t be a person
I would eat my words in my sleep if I could, because my common logic won’t allow it but in my dreams I will; in my dreams I have a hopeless side of me, not counting every tick in a day to make sure it still runs the same as all the others, unlike the waking me does
But when I wake up those words still hang in the air and I realize they were best left said anyways
I think I wish I had said good bye But with one too many letters un-replied to, I wouldn’t know how to say it Because I don’t know which you to say good bye to The you sitting in the hall with me at midnight The you who’s face drifts a little too close to mine The you who can cry and admit he isn’t perfect The you who knocks over stuff and makes a mess when we are cooking The you who holds a stapler over his chest saying “dare me” The you pretending he doesn’t know me Or the one pretending that he hates me I saw your many faces and don’t know which one to say goodbye to
So it’s probably best no good bye was said at all but I still feel unresolved You stick to me, like a burr or a thorn This feeling that I could have done more I could have told you how beautiful you were so you wouldn’t try too hard to fool people into thinking it Because your price tags and diet made you look appealing to some but not me
No… I was drawn to your eyes and how they always match your shirt Your chipped tooth framed in your goofy smile The laugh that escaped your nervous lips as you say something I know you don’t tell most people
I wish I could have told you it was going to be okay: You would be okay if you learned who you was It would get better if you stopped trying so hard You can’t help your ****** orientation so you need not hide You don’t have to hate yourself because you think some people hate you Because some people didn’t and you made them want to try…
In ways I was an improved vision of yourself And you were an improved vision of myself
If only I could run the football field, be attractive, be cool Have people wanting me and wanting to be me If only you were confident in who you were, able to sing, dance and express yourself, Have people trust you and see that you aren’t afraid of judgment
But I’m not you and you aren’t me, I smell like trees and you smell like Polo I am not afraid of myself, and you are I try to be honest and you try to be someone else I am still standing here and you aren’t…