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

Avoidant Discard

March 2nd, 2025

I don’t understand why
You wanted to play me
I gave you time and space
And this is how you repay me

Note: Mercury Retrograde started yesterday, and it’s already bringing the past to light. I don’t share my poetry for anyone but myself, to document my life as I’ve experienced it.

The Things I Know

July 6th, 2011

Things I had once known
Are no longer what they are
And I may have lost myself
But I don’t think I got too far
Tell me who I am
And I’ll show you who I’m not
But what is the truth
I think I forgot
Everything is changing
I guess I’m not so sure
And things I thought would never change
Aren’t what they were before
But things will never stay
I’ve known this all along
And the only time I questioned that
I found that I was wrong
So I take things as they are
And I’ll take things as they go
Because this is who I am
Because this is what I know