Destitute and hoping
Smiling through tears
Fighting through fears
Everything changes but that keeps everything the same
I can’t keep you safe
I can’t keep you here
I can’t make it okay
I can’t make it through this
Life goes on, leaving me behind
I struggle on, losing sense of time
From outside I’m all I should be
Inside I die a little each day
I can’t keep me safe
I won’t keep me here
I can’t make it okay
How can I make it through this?
It’s like I’m throwing stones at my own glass house
I couldn’t stop them so I faded into their midst
I couldn’t ignore their words
I couldn’t walk away
I couldn’t keep us safe from the pain and the rage
We’re gone now and two worlds separate us again
It’s not okay and I know it never will be
I don’t think anything will ever be the same but I’m still moving through
Change makes me helpless
It’s the only normal I’ve ever known
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Baring My Soul (poetry)
PoetryThis is a collection of poems that I've written over the years, some of them are free verse and some rhyme. The inspiration for the poems varies, but most center around some aspect of love, whether it be the joy and the pain of young love or the lov...
