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There was a song
You always seemed to loved a little more than the others
You always turned it up a little louder than your favorites
Maybe the lyrics should've let me know
Where our future was going
But I just sang along while you smiled at me

I'm driving alone now
And it's the first time I heard that song since you left me
I'll sing along
Old lyrics that I knew almost as well as I knew you


I saw that you're dating
The beautiful girl who made eyes at you
And I don't know how much it rains in Texas
But it seems no matter how much beer I drink
This heartbreak just keeps ruining me
It's a beautiful world with a beautiful girl
Kinda making eyes at me

Cause the sun's too bright, the sky's too blue
Beer's too cold to be thinking bout you
Gonna take this heartbreak and tuck it away
Save it for a rainy day

Yeah, the music's too good, my friends are all out
And they're all too high to be bringing 'em down
If they ask about you, I've got nothing to say
I'll save it for a rainy day

There'll be plenty of time for what if's and why's
And how'd I let you get away
But the lying in bed all stuck in my head
Is just gonna have to wait
I think the most magical thing about poetry
Is that no matter how many times you read a poem
Overlook it
Don't understand it
Maybe not even like it

One day
Something happens
Your heart breaks in a certain way
And it clicks
A poem that once seemed foreign
Puts your heartache into better words than you can yourself
Rachna Beegun Apr 2017
Forgive me, but I need to get away from all this before it damages me again.
My heart and I have never been in sync

See, my brain has always known me best
It fulfills my desperate need for rational, logical, valid understandings
Any uncomfortable confusion gets swept away through reason

And because of this
I have been able to erase you from my mind
There are no traces left of you in my life
It seems to me
That I seem to be
Happy.
(But the metaphysical definition of "happy" is widely disputed so I'm not sure we even know what it means to be "happy")

But the real problem I keep running into is,
I cannot philosophize you away
My heart has this desperate need to hold onto
What I know makes no sense
You are the essence of all the things I am not good at
And I am the sum of a life you would rather forget




I once read that no true philosopher
Ever lives happily ever after
Instantly I thought of you
And agreed that the saying was true.
  Apr 2017 Rachna Beegun
Àŧùl
I see not a hope to live,
But I am not going down unsung.

I will leave a mark here,
But I will never know what I made.

I shall be just a memory,
But I am going to be immortal there.

I hear not many things,
But I know I beat in a beautiful heart.

I need not a person to love,
But I have my parents to impart care to.
My HP Poem #1494
©Atul Kaushal
  Apr 2017 Rachna Beegun
Caitlin Nesbit
I woke to the smell of rain
rolling in through my bedroom window.

It smelled like you
and past nights of regret.
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