March 9th, 2010
A kiss still lingers
On my cheek
Was once so strong
Now feels so weak
Set me up
To feel so high
Then disappear
With no goodbye
Time keeps moving
I feel so old
And though I feel numb
I still feel cold
The pain is real
The pain is fake
I fell in love?
Yeah, my mistake
I’m just a fool
I give my all
You’ll watch me trip
And take my fall
And I keep my hope
Even through all the lies
Because every hello
Is worth all the goodbyes
August 28th, 2020
My brother once told me
That we were related
We didn’t grow up together
So it needed to be stated
My brother once told me
You look so pretty
Well, pretty ugly
But he was just kidding
My brother once told me
He was having a baby
I was barely a child
And he wasn’t yet eighteen
My brother once told me
His childhood tales
School fires and bomb threats
No lack of details
My brother once told me
He was calling me an ambulance
His instincts to protect me
Were quite miraculous
My brother once told me
I shouldn’t be a poet
Because writers aren’t happy
But I was already devoted
My brother once told me
He lost his employment
But he stopped showing up
Because he relapsed on poison
My brother once told me
He was getting divorced
You can only hurt someone so much
Before they feel no remorse
My brother once told me
It was time to say goodbye
That the cops are after him
He was hard to personify
My brother once told me
That I gained some weight
But he’d lost all of his
And given into a cruel fate
My brother once told me
With a change in his voice
That he likes being homeless
And you can’t change someone’s choice
January 25th, 2010
One little lie
I shouldn’t dignify
So I placed a rose in to your hand
You placed your toes in the wet sand
I saw that look inside your eyes
But I let you say goodbye
I know I didn’t try
I know I didn’t try
We crashed on your bed
My chin above your head
In my arms was where you laid
But we soon began to fade
And not the beach, but where we lie
One last kiss before goodbye
Our hands intertwined
Guilty thoughts inside my mind
I let the train pull me away
But it brought you back to me one day
We walked around in the summer air
I just really wanted to care
I know I wasn’t fair
I know I wasn’t fair
Another laying in my bed
Confused thoughts inside your head
I never told you, you were right
My feelings I just couldn’t fight
I wish I could take it back
But then the experience I’d lack
I know that it was wrong
I’d known it all along
I wish I never lied
I’m sorry I didn’t try
Doll Poetry 