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Dess Ander Apr 2018
Borders can be open,
but minds can remain closed.
Ady Apr 2018
i don't deal with my problems;
i bury them in my yard and in
my haste forget that weeds grow
without the need of water.
Alex Apr 2018
i
have not
written a lot
I thought I didn’t
need to, but i’m wrong
i thought i escaped my problems
but i just pushed them to the back of my mind
I guess i'm sorry for not writing should've kept writing to be honest even if it's about stupid things
Amanda Kay Burke Apr 2018
VERSE 1:
Pick the glass up off the table
I take another drink
There is an empty bottle of whiskey
Sitting in the sink

I do not know why the alcohol
Will not keep you off my mind
It seems it has always worked
Every other nightly time

Memories are too strong
And I cannot be alone
I stumble until I find
The nearest lonely telephone

CHORUS:
Call you up drunk
Get the message machine
Say I love you and I just wanna know
Do you somehow still love me?

VERSE 2:
I am from a dusty small town
And so tired of the ways
Locals cover up their hurt
With the command each obeys

We shine like stars in the world's sky
Swim in a substance-filled sea
Fill our stupid souls with *****
Til full and still are empty

CHORUS

What else will numb the pain
When the pain and sorrows won't pass?
We are all just chasing our problems
To the bottom of a glass
An old song I wrote, to the chords Am C F Em for the verses and C F C F C for the chorus.
Amanda Kay Burke Apr 2018
I may be chaotic and crazy
You can ask anyone
I have a different
Idea of what constitutes fun

I am just a girl
Who is a little afraid
Of the power contained
In a tiny grenade

I know at this time
I seem bland and weak
Because I am still searching
For the answer I seek

You do not worry or care
And I pretend that's fine
These issues I am handling
Are no one else's but mine
A super old one
Justaperson Apr 2018
Let’s say, metaphorically speaking, there’s a tree.
A small but strong pine tree.
This tree is in a forest with many other trees, and in this forest nothing happens.
There are no other trees besides pine.
No birch.
No redwood.
No beech.
Just pine.
But, what if that one pine tree...didn’t want to be a pine tree?
What if that pine tree wanted to be a cedar tree, or the most beautiful cherry blossom in the orchard?
But no matter how hard it tried it was always just a pine tree.
Surrounded by other pine trees in a forest where nothing happened.
Metaphorically speaking.
I’ve really not been in a good place and I don’t even know why I wrote this
Wick Apr 2018
Death dangling from nimble fingers
Warmth ephemeral from cold delivered
Murky decisions waft as smoky regrets
Wishing it would burn with the cigarette.

Another night pass like a stranger on the street
Never looking back, apathetic as it fleets  
Troubled mind tryin' to answer questions born out of fear
Trying to wrap around a conundrum
Afraid of what the truth will bear.
Long time no write.
Amanda Kay Burke Apr 2018
I used to get lost inside your soul for hours
Until the moon fell from our sky
I wanted to hold those breif moments together
I was too busy trying to fix you and I

We lived an imitation of life
On top of problems you worked to conceal
I never bothered to investigate
Our created world though foggy and surreal

Then I saw you for what I knew you were
It could not be changed by force
Two perspectives, one disaster
The tears cried had run their course

With one more half-hearted effort
To save us, gave your final chance
Again you carelessly threw it away
Used disloyal lies to end our delusional romance
I wish I would have left sooner.
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