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Gelz Apr 2020
I once knew a boy, who fell in love with a girl
             who called her beautiful and
        smiled at the thought of her name.

I once knew a girl, who fell in love with a boy
             who wrote him poems
              and felt the very same.

But it became a struggle, and timing was wrong
    and love decided that they didn't belong.
DrabRoses Mar 2020
"PIease dont wait for me", they're her last words,
Just as that last flight, she boards,
Leaving me all alone in a state of poetic trance,
She didn't even try to give us a second chance.

The love she showed and the promises she made,
Broken in mere seconds in that dreadful raid,
Lost in the past, loving someone who was never mine,
With wet eyes I write and it happens to rhyme.

Slowly dissolving into the world of hate,
I thought it had always been my fate,
To be broken and be left beyond repair,
Just reading my work in awe and despair.

But everything changed, an old friend arrived,
Knowing my scars, to help me she strived,
Maybe happiness wanted to give me another glance,
It turns out maybe life did give me another chance,

Helplessly I fell for the same trick again,
In hope that it'll cleanse that old stain,
She ensured she would always be there,
"Just trust me,"she said," I'll always be fair "

With time my fate eventually started to change,
All that had happened,now didn't feel strange,
I thought She liked me and we'll get along,
I thought our bond would always remain Strong.

But time is very cruel, it never remains the same,
I guess with me, it always loves to play this game.
Just as everything seemed better, he came along,
A distant-cousin who thought all this was wrong.

He asked her to mercilessly cut-off our old bond,
Unwillingly she did so,for of him she was long fond,
Not knowing what to do she asked me to understand,
For I cared for her, I silently waved my hand.

I thought I was strong enough to forget,
Everything that happened from the day we met,
For she loved him and would be happy with him,
I waved her goodbye, even though I would get dim.

But she stopped me from going I dont know why,
She said she wanted to say something other than goodbye,
She thanked me. for undustandlng and being always there,
I suddenly went blank and gave. her a long stare.

"I didn't do anything that I can compare,
With what you had done during my nightmares,
You helped me. recover and showed me a wau,
I really wish I could've; made you stay.

But you know I'm not that strong,
I can't forget our old cherished bond,
I'll always be. here if you ever come. back,
I'll wait for you even during the all black. "

I knew she had to leave but I gave it a try ,
And I guess it was futile for she said goodbye
I saw her turn back and just walk away,
From that moment I felt my life turning grey.

She left me all alone with this great pain,
I guess it all happened to me once again,
For ln the end She said "be happy wherever you may be',
But I wont ever be back," So please dont wait for me
It's about how people still cling to their feelings after their breakup and jjst don't move on.
Kewayne Wadley Jan 2020
The devil walked into a store
Eying the clearance rack.
 
He made eye contact with the cashier
Walking towards the half priced jackets
Flannels & boots.

At that moment he saw something that
became his whole world.

His fingers wild with excitement
passing through all the colors
The hangers clanging against metal feverishly
to find that they didn't have his size.
He thumbed back through the sizes
as though something would have changed
Checking then double checking.

He asked the cashier if they had anymore
in the back,
much to his dismay
to receive the same answer.

He saw a cardigan in his size but hated the way
it looked.

Flapping the hood up and down.
He circled the store
Looking up & down the isles.

Until he noticed the buttons.
Those big wooden buttons
Memories of a different time & place
How fast time slips away.

All that's left;
Shoes to match
Kewayne Wadley Jan 2020
Beside the porch of broken dreams
She invited me to her dreams.
When I asked whether or not
which door to walk through.
That's when she cut the lights off
& everything got dark
Beside the porch of broken dreams.
I too, sit
without so much as a light
to keep me company
Kewayne Wadley Jan 2020
I fit most comfortably
in your hand
Yet you drop me & bounce
me around.
When I fall I have every
intention of landing back
in your hand
But when I bounce back up
I fly in every direction
Except there.
I bounce & I bounce
Until I have no choice
But to lay motionless on the ground.
Still full of life
Still full of excitement.
Until you decide you'd like to play
with me again.
I fit most comfortably
in your hand
Yet you drop me & never pick me
back up
phoenix Dec 2019
A few years ago
you were written all over me
you could read me
I was your book

you wrote your own stories
and I repeated them
when I left
when you shut me out

I will never forget that time
a few years ago
it was the holidays
we hung out
you wrote a story that day
a story I wish I could someday tell

maybe one day it'll be framed
shown to the world
but even when I did
the only person who would understand
would be you

the book is closed
and I know
ill never be the same
as I was a few years ago
phoenix Dec 2019
are you okay?
have you been able to sleep?

every night I stare at my phone
as it all becomes about you
every day I continue on
just as I did before

you always thought you controlled me
you never believed me when I told you
I stood my own ground

but ill always wish ever night
I could look you in the eyes
and ask you

are you okay?
have you been able to sleep?
phoenix Dec 2019
if the roles were reversed
if the shoe was on the other foot
would you have let me hurt you
the way you did?

would it be emotionless
would the pain be non existent
would everything be the same
would it just be without me

would you hug yourself?
would you scream at the pain I caused you?
would you be too hurt, to even see my name?
would you lose yourself in a mess you couldn't control?

would you hope that the pain wouldn't stay?
would you hope maybe you could be okay again?
would you hope you could look me in the eye?
would you hope to be able to trust,like you once did?

would you hope one day you could trust again?
would you hope one day you were able to feel again?
would you hope one day you would love
the way I loved you?

no.

you wouldn't smile the way you did when you met me
you wouldnt feel how you did when I numbed all the pain.
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