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TJ Colon Sep 2015
Hardship greeted me with open arms
Gray monochrome rainbows remain
Blessed in the waters of misfortune
Surely baptised by Saint Someday

Gray monochrome rainbows remain
I've grown so tired of chasing
Surely baptised by Saint Someday
"Almost" stands forever in the way

I've grown so tired of chasing
Blessed in the waters of misfortune
"Almost" stands forever in the way
Hardship greeted me with open arms
TJ Colon Sep 2015
The pain of looking
Into your eyes
Without knowing
Your intentions
Unbearable
As I smile appearing
To be content
Your eyes and
Your lips
Contradict each other
When you whisper
I love you
Distant is your gaze
Clearly you are afraid of being
Discovered
So your tender words
Lose their meaning
Never being
Validated by those
Once passionate eyes
When you learned
To look past
The love
Of a man
On his knees
Before you
With dreams of
Forever holding you
Who now sits at the
Negotiating table
With father time
Pleading for just
Another sunrise
By your side.
TJ Colon Sep 2015
Frequently I think
Of your scent
Remembering how sweet
Evenings always ended
Vexed to having lost you
Echoes of your voice
Run rampant in my thoughts
TJ Colon Sep 2015
Two doves white as snow meet for the very first time
One takes the lead while the other is close behind
Together they soar through the endless sky
Admiring each other they continued to fly
The very moment in which they flew side by side
They realized that in another life together they died

They once shared a life and walked hand in hand
One of them remembered long walks on the sand
Together they turned and flew towards the shore
Not once did they imagine just what was in store
As they looked down much to their surprise
There was a patch of sand unblemished by the tides rise

Two hearts linked together gently drawn in the sand
During a breath taking sunset shared by a woman and a man
In one mighty breath he yelled to the winds
If you leave my love I'd know not where to begin
Being so flattered she knew not what to say
She remembered they never made it back to shore that day...

Together once again to start a new life
Soaring through blue skies as white doves
A man and his wife...
TJ Colon Sep 2015
All I need is
A barstool
A bottle and
Time
To reflect on
What I have become
As I only wish
To numb this
Pain
That eats away
Without regard
For my forlorn
Existence
I fault no one
For benefiting
From my altruistic
Nature
Without ever expecting
To sit here
With nothing left to give and
Alone
I put all those
I deeply loved
Before all I ever
Dreamed
Now as you all
Have grown and changed
Your disdain leaves me feeling
Insignificant
As I have nothing but
My heart and my hopes
Which is clearly not
Enough
For you to remember
That I was motivated by Love
To ensure my family's
Survival
Today believing
I have in you a helping hand
I stand in these walls of
Silence
Hoping only for
A barstool
A bottle
And time
To numb the
Pain....
TJ Colon Sep 2015
At times I may have fallen short
Intentions remained just that
Dreams always dissipated
Reality returned at sunrise
Struggle my intimate friend
Destiny has a cruel sense of humor
Chance never ceased to frown upon me
Dark this place that keeps my tomorrow out of reach
Seasons alone seem to change
If I will have never fulfilled your every expectation
Remember me for what I hoped to be.
TJ Colon Sep 2015
Notion of time
Absent
I travel towards
Unknown destinations
The stars have
Departed
Daylight anxiously
At bay
Dawn never breaks
The mist of a sorrowful
Morning never subsides
Thoughts of harmony
Remain simply that
Thoughts
Hopes of change
Never seem to
Materialize
I wander through
The fog
Deceptively smiling
In a futile attempt
To convince all
That life is nothing
Short of grand
Aspirations evaporate
Into the misty air
Of a sorrowful morning
They take flight
Now i wander
Simply hoping that
Daylight breaks through
This most unpleasant
Fog
So that a warm ray
Of sunlight may
Caress my weathered
Cheeks
Before i walk no more.
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