Some days I feel fine.
Other days...not so much.
I never know which way the day will go,
Till I’m halfway down a dark road to nowhere.
I wish I could control the myriad ways I feel.
I wish I knew why my feelings pop up the way they do.
I used to want to die.
But now all I want is you.
I don’t know who you are.
Just a figment of some oft imagined destination.
I think of you and wonder if you’re real,
Or if it’s easier to dream a dream
than live a life.
I wish to find the meaning behind every sunrise.
The purpose of each setting sun.
But those are mysteries better off left to the dying and the dead.
Sometimes I feel closer to the dead and buried than to the living ones.
It’s easier to maintain a relationship when the other isn’t talking.
One can imagine all the things they’d say and how the other would respond.
I create whole symphonies in my head,
to an audience of none.
They say I am too young to give up now.
To leave romance at the door.
But I’ve felt enough heartache for more than one lifetime.
I’m fresh out of love and short on fucks to give.
I fear it’s fear which holds me back.
But could it simply be rational sensibility?
I could never love another as I have already loved.
Surely, that is good indeed,
but I’m uncertain what comes next.
If soul-consuming flames of love are but a not-so-distant memory,
what kind of love can there be?
Calm love? Peaceful love? Fulfilling love?
Do these loves give way to passion?
Or is the sizzle doomed to fizzle?
Questions. Always questions.
Nary an answer in sight.
Anger stings and burns my lips.
Hurt by another.
The gift of pain that keeps on giving.
How is it fair to have been so damaged at such a tender age?
All that’s left is unexpressed fits of rage.
This rage it burns me from the inside out.
Instead of finding its pursuer, it turns on the one who has nurtured it so.
If only I knew what to do with it. Where to put it.
I’m not fit to store it anymore.
This warehouse is closed. The building deemed condemned.
I served the anger an eviction notice, but it squats in my belly, chest and heart.
It lodges in the hallway of my throat, plugs my ears and stings my nose.
Whatever shall I do, to be rid of you.
You motherfucking son of an asshole bitch.
I cannot turn back the clocks of time,
Nor remove the annals of history.
That day may always remain a mystery.
I hate you.
And I hate that I hate you.
I want you to mean nothing.
You are a maggot who lives in the dark and creepy places of the earth.
You drink the souls of children,
Murdering hearts in their beds.
You don’t deserve a poem,
Or the polluted air you breathe.
You’re a sicko and a fool.
A wacko wimp imposter.
You coward sack of shit
I hope you die.
On second thought, no I don’t.
Death would be too sweet a release for one such as you.
Whatever fantasy revenge I may contemplate is too good for you.
I leave your fate in the hands of the Angels.
May they do with you as they Will.
And may you learn your lesson in a most excruciating manner.
It is not I who can decide the fate of others.
I do not know how, but I’ll be rid of you yet.
You’ll not plague me all my life.
I’ll turn your wretched oil and spin it into gold.
Goodbye. Adieu. I bid thee farewell.
May we never meet again.
In this life, or the next.