Strung

Nov 2018

Alex B

Someone stole my color
And threw it to the wind
Scattered like ashes
I don’t know if I’ll ever find it

Someone stole my color
From the face I know so well
I saw it in the cotton candy clouds
And the teal ocean swell

Someone stole my color
I guess that’s where it went
The world looks so much brighter
Like something heaven-sent

Someone stole my color
And that’s what no one knows
Depression isn’t black
It’s the color of a rose

It’s the light orange in a sunset
And the yellow of a peach
Light blue, my favorite color
So simply out of reach

Purple like my favorite eyeshadow
No, lavender, I’d guess you’d say
And my favorite music artist
Although he has passed away

Someone stole my color
Now everything’s too bright
I suppose sometimes darkness
Isn’t the opposite of light

Someone stole my color
So I’ll wear grey and black
As if in mourning
Until I get it back

Strung Nov 2018

Hungry Love

The earth is tired
Like the lids I peer through
Back to you
And your pursuit
Of endless hungry words,
So spill, tell it all;
The words that ****.
Poison, it’s an intimacy
Like the tattoo sleeve you lean on,
Dreams that fill your ego
Feeding lies of which you dream on
But what I know you reach for
Is more hungry love
So continue draining life or love from me
Leaching words,
— Just keep them

#love #hungry #sad #alone #tired #words #drained #poison #lies #endless

Strung Nov 2018

Shatterable

Am I glass to myself?
So easily shattered.
See through the image I talk about;
Do I pretend to be different
Than a mirror of doubt?
Reflect back only critics
Buckets of loss
With every look in the eye,
A victory tossed.

#breakable #glass #mirror #loss #lost #weak #eyes #reflection

Strung Oct 2018

Convincing Monsters to Lay Dormant Hurts Like Nothing Else

You’re forcing my hand, forcing the lungs to constrict,
What will you do
with the bits of love I’ve left to you?

I don’t trust you anymore

“Nothing is wrong”,
Let it be known
I’ve just had a bad week,
Though that’s naive.
A crooked dream
I like to think
about.

I know I’m surrounded.
Blood red hair you dye to stay pretty,
Like the blood drawing sharks in calm waters.

— I guess I deserve it.

#stop #enough #anger #pain #hurt #blood #red #criminal #broken #again

Strung Sep 2018

Listen

Pushed into the pavement
Like the imprint of a leaf
A simple stain on concrete
- Haven't I got anything to say?

#simple #alone #quiet #pushed #unheard

Strung Sep 2018

Too late (to call)

It got too late
to call
I hung up my hands,
the wall
always hits my head—
When the moon is so high
I can't watch from my window,
I know,
It's too late to call

#moon #sad #alone #late #night #overwhelmed #depression #anxiety

Strung Sep 2018

I Lost Respect for You, Sorry

Tattoo your love of normalcy
Up and down your sleeves
But don't ever look at me
Like that

#love #disrespect #respect #loss #pain

— The End —