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Raf Reyes Dec 2015
What am I still holding on to?
Why do I still seem to care so much for you?

You never really seem to care anymore anyway

When I reach out to you, you block me out
When I try to talk to you, you close yourself from me
Every word I say passes through your ears
Every smile I give leaves you emtionless
Everything I do goes by unnoticed
Brushed off by a mere swipe of a hand
Every poem I write and every song I sing, they're all for you
But you didn't even seem to care
Brick by brick, you've built a wall around yourself
A wall too high to climb
A wall too thick to push my way through
A wall too strong to for me take down
Forcing me to give all my effort
To take each and every brick in my grasp
And bring them down
One by one
Leaving my hands broken
tired
and bruised

Let's face it: We're drifting, and that *****
Our daily conversations have run dry
We used to talk about our dreams, our interests, our passions
Our plans for the world to see
People we want to be
Our pasts, our present and our futures
We used to talk about OURSELVES
But now I feel like you've run out of interest for me
And I feel like every word I say takes so much effort
Because I try so hard to keep the conversation alive
Even though deep down
I know it's slowly dying
Because I don't want to let it die
Because I don't ever wanna stop talking to you
Because I don't want to drift from the person I used to spend hours on end having endless chats with
Maybe we're just running out of things to talk about
And I don't really know why

Sometimes I feel that us drifting is one sided
Like I spend all this time thinking about you
When I wonder if you even realize that I still exist
I'm still here
I think about how long we haven't talked
I think about our last texts, our last messages
When you probably don't even remember the conversations we've had

So what the hell am I still holding on to?

I'm holding on to the memories we've made
I'm holding on the conversations we used to share
I'm holding on the the laughs, the smiles, the good times we've
had
I'm holding on to the poems
the letters
the songs
All written in your name
Hoping that someday you'll find the time
To read them
To remember and look back on what once was
But most of all, I'm holding on to those 3 words that you said
"I Love You!!!"

I miss you, I really do
I miss the old us
I miss our friendship

And it's sad to think that I'm still here
Holding on to all those things
All the things that we've been through
When you've already let go
A long time ago
Mitchell Dec 2014
Ten Black Tents
Streets are bare as a babies arm
A breakfast of Champions
Waves his white flag,
Seeing seeing seeing
That the war was lost

A long time ago.

Admit defeat
And feel the cool rush of
Freedom
Freedom
Freedom

Are we not men?
Are we not women?
Are we not

Human beings on a minuscule,
Smoke filled planet and breaking the bones
We are born upon
To see the state of stars, shining bright and
Emtionless; void
Of any past relationships and thinking of
Father, his face flushed and red, puffy and non-complacent,
Lost in

No thought, but a million

All at the same time.

To make it impersonal,
Away from oneself,
Off and away and in another room,
Seeing the light skip across the puddle,
Bound across and into the alleyway,
Flashing stares in a nuclear fashion,
Asking the naked clerk if the best thing to do is:

Just give up.

Instead,
The clerk hears not what you say,
So you walk away,

Thinking this you better change for the better
Or else most and all and this you

Doesn't really seem worth it at all.

— The End —