Just Another Soul

Often I feel I’ve said too much

Can’t keep a hold

On my writhing gut

And I never settle for enough is enough

I know I’m tough

But my thoughts get rough

When I’m stretching all the invisible strings

Peering through nothing at the everything

And I find I say I’m sorry a million times

But they grow weary of my anxious rhymes

And there I go again, feeding the seed

Hell, I can’t blame them

Even I can’t stand me

I pray it wasn’t so

I wish I could be

Someone who didn’t require lies

To find a side of happy

I’d like to say I’m content being my only friend

And often I am

Until the fog rolls in

Here, I strain to open my eyes

I swear I try

But it feels like my mind has been vandalized

By something so beyond what I see

The darkness comes from a place

No one can help me

So what choice for them do I leave?

I’m just another soul

That never learned how to breathe

 

No Other

Baby, when I miss you

I miss you like no other

And honey, when I kiss you

There could never be another

Cuz you were there every time

Every time I strayed

Reminding me I was good enough

That I’d always find my way

You never doubted my insanity

But saw the beauty in my depth

You caught me when I stumbled

And that’s the reason why I kept

Coming back around to you

How ironic, I do see

The guy that I should fall for

Was always picking up stray pieces of me

Now I’m holding close to something new

Yet as familiar as can be

And that feeling I could only catch moments of

Is now filling up inside me

Losing Him

I tried to make it all okay

I tried to laugh

I tried to play

You showed me things I’d never seen before

You held me

You kissed me

You made me feel adored

But every time I opened my eyes

And your face, it wasn’t his

And every time you touched me

With unfamiliar hands

I cried inside for him

And although your voice

It said sweet things

And reminded me I could still half smile

It wasn’t the voice

My heart was breaking for all the while

I reached within the depths of my core

I tried to pull him out of me

My lungs were shaking with every breath

As you kissed me

As you touched me

You traced the line down my neck

I squeezed my eyes tight shut

Praying that I could let you have me

But in my heart

I knew it wouldn’t be enough

To erase the bitter sweet memories of him

Playing over and over in my head

There he was still smiling at me

Making all the promises he’d said

His arms were wrapped around my waist

Kissing my lips

He held on tight

I thought he’d never let me go

A truth that now lay shattered

One I’d always know

Still, he was all I needed

But the him in me was lost

Tripping over strange, new pieces

I could have died despite the costs

Something About Someone Somewhere

She’s a collection

Of flesh, blood and bones

Assembled in the form of the human body

Garnished in an assortment of rare clothes

Oh, she’s a creature of some sort

That much cannot be denied

For she’s certainly breathing

And I see the light in her eyes

But something is strange

Within the depths of her being

And on the surface it shines

Unashamed, always seeing

Alien

I swear she must be

For the alien in her

Has greeted the alien in me

What a splendid reunion

What a horrific scene

For when the planet we exist on

Meets the end of all that’s green

I’ll chortle with my alien

And she’ll be laughing at me