Some days, you need your cool kid glasses
You put 'em on, and feel hard core
You lean back in your chair, and say "I f-ed up. But I look damn good now"
And other times, you're hiding the red eyed truth
You just have to fake it...
sitting
shaking
sea life trapped
by the ever-present glass
an appropriate protrayal
of my future
one locked door after the other
the cries and screams
the pressure of the air
is suffocating
fear radiates off of everything
insanity
creeping up my pant leg...
hand shaking
pen quivering
looks at me
"what are you waiting for?"
ive written pages of lost love
but now as your voice penetrates the walls
imprints upon my ears,
i think about htese words for you
these words youll never feel
i cant
focus
my head erupting with WORDS
overflowi...
a million nights id spend
trapped inside your head
roaming its knooks and crannies
like a pirate drawn to sea
id never leave
the warm sanctuary
of your mind...
I draw myself closer to the warmth of the fire
Slowly but surely it will destroy me
But I stay anyway
Eventually I will reduce to ash
Grimy hands abuse and throw me about
Nothing will change
It’s been this way for hundreds of years
I cannot hide
I have no secrets
I’m yours for the takin...
I enter the dark tunnel warily
The graffiti stares down from wall to wall
The rushing water’s sound is friendly
But do your best not to slip up and fall
The damp air cools not only my body
My soul feels the ominous chill as well
Walls damp with fear are lonely and dirty
With secrets theyâ...
dont forget the heat
anticipation
the little green leaves smiling
the warmth of that summer day
dont forget how nervous you were
as you lifted it to your mouth
the burning sensation
the feeling of weightlessness
dont forget the regret
the feeling of patheticness
the feeling that of self ha...
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