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Raja Smith Jan 2017
Broken pieces of my heart,
Dark, scarred and battered.
You look for treasure there
As if none of it mattered.
Some how you see beauty
In what was flawed and tattered.

Long before we were friends,
But didn't have a clue
That we fit perfectly together
But now nothing is more true.
Yet some how in your heart you wonder
How could I fall for you.

It isn't because you fixed me,
Or just because you care.
It's not because I looked around
And no one else was there.
To say I love you out of debt
Couldn't even compare.

Yes you're flawed and damaged,
In similar, yet different ways than me.
When you opened up your heart
I saw a rare beauty.
I see a love that can grow
Pain and damage free.

Nothing in this world
Could ever try to match
A person as unique as you,
A once in a lifetime only catch.
To make you mine forever
Is a plan I try and try to hatch.

So as time goes on,
If you're ever unsure
That my mended pieces
Will head for the door,
Look into my eyes and heart
That love you more and more.
  Jan 2017 Raja Smith
Cait Harbs
We never spoke of love.

We spoke of cosmic miseries;
we spoke of falling statues;
we spoke of unsolved mysteries,
of the prevailing cultural attitudes.

We spoke of miscommunication
and Comedy and Tragedy as brothers;
we spoke of being lost and broken,
yet healed at the hearths of others.

We spoke of Winter's silent war
and how the Sun scared us both;
we spoke of wanderlust and bars
and how our lives were the funniest jokes.

We spoke of possibility,
in coded symbols and allegories,
of all the universes we wish we could be,
of all the things we'd do with wings.

We never spoke of love,
and yet,
somehow,
it's all we ever
talked about.
Funny how we always had two conversations at once.
Raja Smith Jan 2017
It's 2am and here I sit.
From my fingers the colors drip.
Sleep was peaceful,
I easily fell.
The nightmares last forever,
Inescapable hell.
When I finally arise
To feel the tears pour from my eyes,
There's no way to make it right.
So I stay up all night.
Whether it's poems, painting, coloring;
It's the only way to set me free.
For the demons I cannot face,
The love they need I cannot replace.
I try to create beauty
To replace joy stolen from me.
But the pain doesn't ever slow
So deeper into madness I must go.
Words find the colors, the pencils too,
Trying to find my pretty pieces to display them to **you.
  Jan 2017 Raja Smith
Inkveined
Smear the ink that spills from the wounds you left me with
Across my canvas, suddenly, I'm considered an artist
Kudos to me for writing about all my heartaches and heartbreaks
It's my only relief from breathing in tainted oxygen
Lungs half filled with other people's *******
I'm going to be a ballerina when I grow up, I used to say
Instead, I find, my talent lies in laying my emotions out for display
What I always dreaded I would become, I became
Just another poet, writing tirelessly about pain
I don't feel this way anymore. Written in the fall.
Raja Smith Jan 2017
The best lie we say is I'm ok
And then try to drink the pain away.
But like a bullet in the back
It stops you right in your tracks.
Because the fact still remains
I will never shake this pain.
A friend couldn't compare
To the sister I held so dear,
But yet the pain it doesn't slow;
It continues to grow and grow.
And so I sit and drink a beer,
Because life will never be the same without her here.
I see your signs, you say hello.
But I wish you didn't have to go,
I know that you still care.
But don't you know I need you here?
Until I see you again,
I'm ok is just pretend.
Raja Smith Jan 2017
I don't understand why people hide their flaws, like hiding the truth is an internal law. But I show mine off proudly and tell the truth too loudly. Because these scars are apart of me; I show them off so you can see. I wear scars like tattoos all over me. And it's real when they say the truth will set you free. These scars are too tough for you to reopen. I try to hide em and find myself chokin, because honesty is the remedy. And truth is we're all pretty broken; so hiding em isn't a valuable token. It's like playing a game you'll never win, hiding from the light is just pretend. Everything comes out eventually, so why bother showing something you'll never be? Decorate those scars with the highs and the lows, and when you're true to yourself honesty just flows.
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