Floating Words

I don’t know how to talk to you

Because you are human

And I have been stripped ...

I drifted into shadow

On the edge of consciousness

My body paralyzed...

I don’t know what to do

About the shape of you

The yawning chasm in my life...

The potential of this moment

With your gaze locked on mine

Drifts around along and through me

I craned my neck

Took a look

Into my aching soul...

I need you to cauterize

The wounds he left behind

The bleeder that has sprung...

Sometimes writing takes you

Where you don’t want to go

Delving to the very depths...

There are countless stories written

Poems spoken

Lyrics sung

That speak of a “You”...

If the bottom fell out of the sky

And the heavens came crashing down

Could I sneak my way inside...

Many therapists will tell you

To look at your inner child

And be the person

That they needed ...

I haven’t love since you

Not like I used to

They are all just empty faces...

If I had been loved the way I needed as a child I wouldn’t feel wrong. It would have been made clear to me that there was nothing wrong with me. It would have been unquestionable...

If I could drain the jealousy

From my body

From my mind...

I’ve been thinking about power a lot lately

About who has it

Who doesn’t ...

There is no such thing

As over you

I have tried…

I dipped my dreams into the water

Watched them all dissolve

They were too sweet…

I felt compelled to change you

To avoid changing myself

If I could make…

Drop into this moment

Feel it, all of it

Caress the seconds ticking by…

I think I might be losing what’s left of my mind. I dropped it in the storm drain…

I can almost see our love disintegrate

In our acidic lies

We both filled the glass with them…