Heartbreak
The hurt. The realizations. Finding your self-worth. Learning to walk away. You know, all that good stuff.
Empty Promises
You want to be better
You give me empty promises
Send hope to my heart
But days pass without effort
And weeks go without change
Your attitude grows worse
And I grow distant
Because you’re unhappy with yourself
But you think in some way I’m the cause
And just when I think
I get the courage to leave
You want to be better
Wither
Can love wither away
The more you try to reach it?
Will it feel fatal
To learn to let go
To know my effort
Will never be enough;
Or will it be relief
To give back to myself
What I gave to you
That went unappreciated.
Have I been foolish
In convincing myself
To diminish my needs
In the name of love?
Have I lost my own sight
Of what it means to love
In proving my love to you?
Effort in Vain
There came a time
When I finally began to realize
This was not a mutual effort
When I finally looked
Where our hands were
Once desperately grasped
I found that you had let go
And I was the only one
Still holding on
And when I released my grip
I rose, rather than fell
And I was angry at myself
As the distance grew greater
Wondering how I once thought
This illusion of commitment
Was anything
But suffocating chaos
Toxic Love
If he brought you sorrow
Would you even call it
Pain?
If he said 'I love you'
You'd find romance in
The rain.
These years of bliss,
Your beautiful suffocation.
Your once steady feet
Left in disarray and
Isolation.
Now here you stand
Broken, cold, and blue
Wondering just how
All you have is you.
Young Love
Tell me again
Just how young love
Is doomed to fail
Tell me once more
Just how blissful infatuation
Can turn to sinister attraction
What once were red hearts
Are now the rage of tears
Young hearts falling apart
What once was love
Now fuels countless fears
Traces of You
Traces of our past will lie in my heart forever
It will lurk in the deepest parts of my mind
Even when I think I have long forgotten
It will creep through familiarity and reflection
It was you who taught me love
How to be vulnerable, to trust, to hurt
You have scarred my heart
With the best love and harshest realization
Our time is a memory, a legacy
Of who we grew to be
And how we grew apart
And I mean what I say
That you’re always in my heart