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You don't have to tell me
                 I'm not good enough.

I already know.
When I ask you

silly questions...

like if you'll go on

adventures with me.

And I describe these

futuristic moments

in full detail...

I'm just trying to

tell you how much

*I love you
You had my trust,
and like dust,
it settled in the corner,
as if it were metal to rust.
It was like change in your pocket
and just like that,
you lost it.
Not understanding
that it wasn't yours to lose.
Taking everything from me in twos.
And when I finally fought back for it,
coming back from a forfeit,
the tables were turned;
as you had learned
what it felt like to be burned.
I can say I felt sorry for you.
I really did, I really do.
But I'm not ready to lose.
And even if I only know the truth,
of what you do,
and who you talk about me to;
Trying to be something more,
with selfish intentions and nothing more;
with jealousy that you don't deserve,
with nothing but fake words...
Well then take your trust,
and take your dust.
And you know what?
You can even take your rust.
And keep trying to be the best,
if you must.
Sometimes I have these dreams where you are taken from me. Your parents are usually the ones to tell me, their faces contorted with grief and streaked with tears. I fall to the floor, and on my knees I sit, everytime without fail, I fall to the floor. I'm not sure if I could call the emotion in my chest pain because that's such an understatement to what's happening in my body. Imagine an elephant sitting on your chest, crushing your lungs so you could not breathe. And imagine yellow jackets swarming inside of you. Your heart is their nest and they drift out, provoked, stinging you over and over; leaving thousands of stabs of pain in your chest, all combining to form one kind of poison. It hurts so bad it almost has this itchiness about it. And then imagine someone smashing your head open with a hammer. No form of thought, nothing being processed. Just darkness. Just grief. And then my dreams change to being at your funeral. What does one wear, I wonder? to an occasion which marks the ending of life as they knew it. I would just sit there.. I can never hear anything, it just hurts so bad. I'm constantly crying, not even able to get a grip on reality. Because it couldn't be real could it? My biggest fear coming true. And before I wake up shaking and so hot but so cold at the same time.. My dreams shift to me driving alone in my car, with that dead expression I get sometimes. Always listening to music, always hungry but having no appetite, always thinking about you. And when I wake up from these dreams, I really do think about you. And I pray. Hard. Not even praying.. Just letting God read my thoughts. Because what would happen if I ever lost you? Oh my god.. I couldn't imagine. I would be absolutely nothing. Worse, than my most hellish dreams. So please don't ever leave me in any way shape or form. I couldn't do it. Not even in my dreams.
Completely venting about dreams (or nightmares) that are had almost every night.
I don't know how many times
I have to say it.



*So I won't.
I watched the
sunrise this morning.
The way the sky had
started out black and then
slowly began to turn light
with each new pastel color;
until the blazing sun finally
set fire to the horizon
and filled the whole sky.
It reminded me of
what happens
to my heart
every time
I'm around you.
It starts out dark.
But then you come
along and suddenly
it's filled with light.
And even the jet planes
that left their trails
across the sky
were colored bright orange.
Just like my scars,
they too,
were covered with light.
She  arranges her face into a smile;

And no one will ever know she was crying.
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