Free

August 21st, 2008

I don’t want your all
I just want you
You don’t have to change
I’ll still stay true
Because I love you
That’s a feeling I can’t abstain
And it’s okay if I hurt
It’s only pain
Pain is an emotion
And emotions you can overcome
Push them to the side
Don’t let them know who you’ve become
I can free myself
I’ll fly away like a bird
But I’m always coming back
I will never learn
You matter too much
I wish you could see
It’s complicated
And it will always be
Because not much matters more
Than love to me

2008 10 (0)

Homeless

March 15th, 2019

11:11 and under bridge wishing
Ever since I was young I’ve been wanting the same thing
As scenery changes a life I’ve once known
I’ve been longing for a place that felt like home
But home is not a place you can touch
It is not a building filled with stuff
It is an emotion that you can feel
It is the only place that you can be real
They say home is something you know in your heart
But a house was the place that tore me apart
People say that ignorance is bliss
But I’d rather find home than feel like this

First

November 29th, 2018

The first time I fell in love
I was in it alone
I was a broken child
Who knew nothing but a broken home
The first time I said “I love you”
I had said it to myself
I’d only ever written it
And never dared to say it to anyone else
The first time I knew heartbreak
Was the first time I knew love
I was engulfed by the emotions
Or the lack thereof
Then when I first realized
That love should be embraced
That was the last abusive relationship
I ever let myself face

Note: This is an emotional video clip of me from Christmas 2008. I recently watched through my old video journals and found this. In this clip, I encountered the first time I confessed to being in love. These words stuck in my head for a couple days and ended up inspiring this poem.