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Taylor Rothanzl Mar 2013
Those daydreams we spent,
So hollow,
So thoughtful as the sun arose.
Chased by moving cars and desolate characters,
Ripped through endless romantics and heart takers.
Feeling cold.
So cold.

Long nights spent,
Laying on the wet grass.
Wanting, waiting, hoping,
Just trying to keep a sense of stability.
All lost with growing,
Or at least thinking so.

I stutter from the lack of control,
I can breathe from the lack of you.
This toxin fills me.
Collapses my lungs.
And begs me not to breathe.
Tells me to hush until you pass.

The remains of your echoing step.
Moving forward,
Backward,
Until the sound stops.
And everything we knew,
Turns back to hollow.
Taylor Rothanzl Mar 2013
My shadow cast over nothing
Tried to rip out every vocal cord as I try to speak.
Of whats been living inside me
And all the secrets that ive tried not to dream.
It hovers over my bones.
Telling me to be quiet.
Telling me to be still,
And telling me to see all the beauty around me.
But all I see are empty landscapes.
I cannot see those trees,
All I see are empty promises and memories.
Fathers dying and friendships ending.
They wrote their names on these trees,
And all their thoughts in my head.
Taylor Rothanzl Mar 2013
Distance is our only time of trouble.
Along with adolescent dreams and troubling hearts,
Wasting days and nights on overlooking circumstances.
Wishing to be the shelter in your dream last night,
Wanting to feel your hair in my hands.

Sometimes you’re out of reach.
You swear you’re out of control.
But I’ll tell you, darling,
Times like those won’t last forever.
This time apart won’t last forever.

And when those days come around to awake,
Coming home to where we live.
A yellow house on the end of the road.
With a white picket fence that keeps our hearts close,
And a sense of overwhelming love.

Sometimes you’re invested,
On the thought of loneliness.
But I’ll tell you, darling,
Times like those won’t last forever.
This time apart won’t last forever.

— The End —