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Ryan Monroe Apr 2021
We mourn  
We cry
Try and mend
These lies
Our love, uncertain
Unstable
We waver
Were trapped
In this cycle
Disconsolate
We lose our grip
Our stories
Once told
Now crumble
As we unfold
Our secrets
And regrets
They haunt us
We can't forget
This pain
This torment
It breaks us
Till we’re nothing
But fragments
Left to burn
There is no cure
We just have to let
The pieces fall
And watch our mistakes
Bury us all
Ryan Monroe Apr 2021
The words that you say
Burn into my heart
The meanings I portray
Break me apart
Exposing the pieces of me
I’d rather no one see
But when you tell me its OK
That I’ll be just fine
All I want
Is to call you mine
Because you understand
You don’t judge me
All that you see
Is the beauty within me
Ryan Monroe Apr 2021
(inspired my Get Scared lyrics)
Cold white walls
Keep me from my pad and pen
Searching for my innocence
I cant believe its half this hard
To escape this blinding dark
But this is what it takes to breathe
Searching for the truth underneath
I cannot change what they see
The glass is breaking beneath my feet
All my life I’ve been underwater
Sounds and light, a distant blur
But i will myself to look for the surface
Because I’m ready now to leave my depression
I know that my pain may always exist
But now I know ways to let people in
To let down my guard and except happiness
Lines "cold white walls keep me from my pad and pen" and "this is what it takes to breathe" are not from me, they are from Get Scared.
Ryan Monroe Apr 2021
How the hell am i supposed to hold on
When there is nothing for me to hold?
Ryan Monroe Apr 2021
Sometimes I spend long minutes
Staring at my reflection
Searching from my image
The answers to my questions
Who is the curiosity
That softly stares back at me?
As her gaze sweeps over me
I can feel her insecurities
Through the glass
Wonder what made her look at me like that
So scared and vulnerable
Afraid to look back at me
As if my opinion means everything
Who is this teenage girl
Confused and lost in the world?
Is she just like everyone else
Reading all day, dreaming of a kiss
Singing along to Billie Eilish
Who is this who longs to be accepted?
Will I ever find the answers
As I look into the glass
And does she ponder the same things
To what she sees when she looks back?
Ryan Monroe Apr 2021
How did I fall into the trap of yesterday?
I try to deter my thoughts but they won't go astray
I'm locked in the past, I try to escape
To claw my way out, but my efforts go to waste
The tears that endlessly fall down my cheeks
Create valleys of ones I love but can't keep
I'm fighting and screaming at my mind to leave
I can no longer stand this deadly disease
Ryan Monroe Apr 2021
Empty cries
Artificial tears
Hung by lies
Not what I appear
Feelings fade
Voicing monotone
Can't escape
I am hollow
Chasing emotion
Lost in thought
Hit by currents
My head wont stop
Bit by bit
I fall apart

I am nothing

But shards
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