As much as we want an ice cream cone or to go see the new movie in the cinema downtown, what all of us really want to know is why we are here. Not why we are here in the ice cream shop or why we are sitting on a cushy chair in the theater but why we are even allowed to be able to do all these things...
14 Days Until
“Tried and tried again
But the pain still shows
In this cage you call a chest
In this rage you call love.”
The girl jumped up and down letting the music encompass her whole-heartedly. She opened her eyes and tried locking eyes with him. The boy. The boy she had known yet not e...
I've never broken a heart
For I've never had any one's heart in my hands.
I've never kissed in the rain
For I've had no one to kiss.
I've never been to a wedding
For I've known no one who is to be wed.
I have felt a heartbreak
When you hung my heart on a noo...
Jared stared at the ceiling fan whizzing around and around above him. The monotonous beep, beep of the heart monitor was a known sound to Jared. He had been in St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital many times before. It wasn’t news to him, but he just wanted to be with his friends, riding bikes, and ...
I feel your presence
All around me.
It haunts my countenance
And I can't get free.
I follow the path
Of the flickering light.
For the light was broken after the aftermath
In the dull, fatal night.
I remember the bombs
And the earth as it quaked
Singing its destructive song
We were al...
We run parallel
Can't talk to each other
Can't touch each other
Can only see each other.
We run parallel
To the sound of each other's hearts.
The beat that's pounding in our heads.
And can't stop it when it starts.
We run parallel
Like two straight lines in space.
...
I can see when I walk by
The girl in her ragged clothes.
Begging by the right-hand side
Of the long, dark alley.
I see the boy at the flower cart at the corner
Buying a bouquet of lilies and daisies
And I watch as his smile widens
As he hands the 10 dollar bill to the seller.
I can see the y...
Here I sit
Seeing your eyes
Look past me
Into the night.
I can see your stare
As it burns away
Into the bitter soul
You show everyday.
I can already tell
You've been like this
Since you found your family
Hidden in the mist.
Before you loved
Each and every day
You loved it as I lov...
Can't talk.
Smiling face.
Hide my fear
Make a treacherous escape
From my aching mind.
I am a waste of air.
Waste of a beating heart.
Hide me in the shadows
In the looming dark.
Towering billows
Of smoke and defeat.
Constantly they beat
And beat
And beat.
Courageous silence,
Falli...
They think I'm normal.
They don't see
The abnormal
Rushing inside of me.
They think I'm alright
But they don't see
The not right blood
Coursing through me.
I try to tell them
But no one listens
But in my eye
The weirdness glistens.
No one listens
No one cares
So her...
I fall to my knees,
A senseless defeat.
For my skull is fractured,
My life is beat.
No longer shall
My heart be subdued.
As long as there
Is you.
I think of you
My heart flies.
Then I think of her
And it begins to cry.
You have no reason
To think me weak,
But maybe, because of you
You...
If your heart can beat
Why can't mine?
If you're aloud to think
Why can't I?
If you're aloud to hate
Why can't I?
If you're aloud to love
Why can't I?...
She cries in her sleep
Crying in her pillow.
She feels it's all her fault.
She feels like a whomping willow.
After a long day's work
She needs her rest
But stays up all night
Wondering if this is God's test.
But why would he be so cruel
As to put her through this.
This r...
I threw my hand into the creek
I had no idea what I was to seek
I felt my hand get pulled
I knew what was happening should.
I sailed so high I hit the clouds
I felt like a queen as if they had bowed.
I left my home in peace and quiet
I left and went to make a riot.
I went and walked into the...
I see a fire burning bright.
I see a flicker of candlelight.
In the darkness we will stay.
Your smile chases my fears away.
In this depression I can look
At you. I forget all they took.
Our house, our cars, our chairs,
But they did not take the love we share.
Here we remain
Like a burni...
I fall hard for you
Time and time again.
I hate you, you disgust me
Time and time again.
I need you and want you
Time and time again.
I despise you
Time and time again.
I love you
Time and time again.
You hate me
Time and time again.
You love me
Time and time again.
This is love
Time...
Days are gone
Nights return.
I lie awake waiting
Waiting for the sun to burn.
Days return
Nights are gone.
The owl rests his head
The curtains drawn.
The ocean hits the beach
The deep blue sea.
Washes down the sand
And helps me think for me.
Trees whisper in the wind.
Telling thei...
The fibers I feel inside of me.
They are tingling with your non-existent love.
It would be too exhausting for me to try and flee.
I cannot even flee from above.
Finally, together, I can be with you.
But wait, he comes here, into my life he comes.
I do not know why he is here or what to do.
Th...
Where did it go?
Those long ago days.
The days of love
And innocence.
My warm heart
Is broken by darkness.
Regret and disgrace.
Can't feel a thing.
My mind is black.
My heart is red.
My eyes are purple.
And together
I resemble my own worst enemy....
Once I saw a man,
A man with bright blue eyes.
Mine and his locked
Time passed by.
We fell into a trance.
For months we stayed together.
But even I know,
Nothing lasts forever....
I am stuck
In this time continuum.
Nothing more
Than the relenting humdrum
Of my poor heart.
Please my love
Lay it to rest.
It's had enough.
It cannot take
This constant laughter.
With it all
It begins to shatter....
I never push
I never shove
I give you pride
I give you love.
I am there
Always there
Forever there
As long as you're willing.
They give nothing
As strong as this
As strong as that
They do not risk
Everything
For you.
But I'm the bad guy
What am I to do?...
It used to be me and you.
You and I.
Now it's me or you.
You or I.
What happened?
Selfish reasons are wrong.
We are not very strong.
We are not getting along.
It used to be together
Forever.
Now it's no one
And never.
Fatigue.
I am tired.
Expired.
Coming off a wire.
...
Night.
Throughout our sleep.
It never leaves.
Darkness.
Envelopes my soul.
Darkens my light.
I am a creature of the night.
Heart.
Quickening in my chest.
The heartbeat, a pest.
Killing me inside....
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