Drown

April 14th, 2025

This is cliche but it didn’t kill me
I’m just done with this silence
I’m over your inconsistency
Knowing I’ll never find reliance
As the feelings come in waves
I accept that I am broken
And my words won’t change anything
So I leave them unspoken
No one can fix me except myself
But that’s a job that I keep failing
Because I gave you power over me
And then you kept bailing
Maybe it’s the loneliness
That’s making me feel haunted
I just wish it wasn’t you
Who made me feel unwanted
Even though I want to tell you this 
It’s easier to not bring it up again
Because I never asked for anything
And you couldn’t even be a friend
It didn’t even need to be a horizon
You could’ve brought me anything
Now this is the third year in a row
Where you won’t know me in spring
You decided to let me drown
But I know what people say
That it needs to rain in April
To enjoy the flowers in May

Like A Moth To A Flame

March 21st, 2025

For six months I practiced patience
Not trying to rush a connection
Then things never moved forward
Now I’m stuck in reflection
What did you even want
Were you just playing a game
As I search for any answers
You bury all of your pain
But I know you’ll think of me one day
When you see 11:11 on the clock
Maybe driving past a bowling alley
Or downtown near my old block
When you’re on our favorite game
And you see someone playing Kayle
Or another person named Grimm
And it’ll hit you like hell
I hope you can’t hear GNF now
Without thinking about me
“You don’t know what you have ’til it’s gone”
Is going to sink in eventually
Knowing that you didn’t want to try
And never told me what you wanted
Though I’m empty just the same 
You’ll be the one who’s haunted

Happy Ending

June 11th, 2011

From the moment we first spoke
I knew you were what I wanted
You walked away though
And left my dreams haunted
One day it was weird though
I knew it was you
Walking towards me
I didn’t know what to do
I looked down
And you walked right by
My heart dropped
But then you turned to say hi
An awkward conversation
Left me wanting more
But with the year coming to an end
There was no knocking on my door
These guilty thoughts lingered
From time to time
There was no forgetting
And there was no rewind
And my relationship faded
And suddenly it couldn’t be
No more guilty thoughts
And you were again in front of me
A week of slow conversation
Left me wanting more
And when I met up with you
I couldn’t believe this anymore
After all the waiting
After all the time
I got my happy ending
With your lips pressed against mine