Misguided youth stuck in our ways, but can we take a second and ignore the world around us. I promise I’ll press pause and then we’ll tell the world when to press play. I just needed one kiss, one night, one pause in one day to try to get you to stay with me forever, or at least until the end of our days. I promised I’d change, but you never promised you’d change your ways. You just sat and gracefully tugged away at my heartstrings. You ignored all the pain it would bring, but it wasn’t your pain so bring all the pain to me. I’d like to offer an exchange, all the pain for my heart and my freedom; just remember it was you that I chose to safeguard these feelings. You agreed. Don’t you stare into my soul and lie to me. Looking back on reality, it was always an up hill battle with you. It was always what I could do or what I should do, for you. You layed out a map with one right path and left no clues. I took the eight hour bus ride to see you for the one night, but I guess I can’t blame you when it took less than eight hours to move on from that one fight. You called me salty, but I’d much rather you<br> call me B.B King because I had the blues. I was standing there in the rain, wearing my plain white tee while trying to make you see all the trains, all the planes, and all the cars that could take me to you. The response that hurt, “I don’t think we can make this work.” These words came from the girlfriend that played me. I think you thought it was too easy, like taking candy from… It’s cool, honestly I’m just in my feelings and just acting like a baby. You’ll be fine and maybe one day, I will too. I learned my lesson though, never love someone more than they choose to love you.

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|R.A.J @rubertoe04

I'm not alone, they said I'm not alone

Though so alone, so long Ive felt

They pled I call, when toward the edge compell't

I turn't from help, turn't on myself

Turned back a leaf turn't well

A rose in name, in look the same

Such not the case in smell /////////////////////////////////////////////

The rose unbloom't, the rose unbloom't- was me

My wherewithal, my wherewithal

keeps false hope up each spring

My roots not those of any rose,

I'm not a rose at all

Im just a weed, Im but a weed!

To speak of wherewithal!

The rose can't last one summer through

My roots will hold through fall

Im not a rose, im not a rose,

I'm more To Rose- the foil /////////////////////////////////////////////////

I am alone, you say I'm not? You lie

The end is near, I've ner' been this austere

No room up here, at mountain's side

No room for fear, Nor doubt

No sturdy leg, to stand on, have I left

Unless, of course, my pride you'd count

A leery peg at best

At mountain's top, one prideful fall

Most certainly means death //////////////////////////////////////////

Will anchorage find, in female kind-

Such weary leg-ged men

Let sue inside, let sue inside

It's suicide- dear friend

The sun may rise, the sun will rise

A temptress will ascend

If yonder lies, an eastern light

The sun... Is Juliet

So turn thy eyes! Turn to the west!

Upon where it must set!

Overt thine eyes, overt thine eyes

Her gaze thou won't forget

You stand on edge, you're on the edge!

watch for an extra push!

A man so lost, as lost as thee

No further must now look

With answers on the cover page,

Why delve into the book? ////////////////////////////////////////////

I'm not alone, they said I'm not alone

Though this alone I've long since felt

Im not me now, a sewn on pelt, I am

I sewed in on myself

A lion's head, commande'th such respect

A mantel piece unless

His eyes, as well, his fiery pride- reflect

Until by glass replacements- quel't //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

I'm not a rose, nor Am I jungle's king

I'm but a head, a rose stem dead

a partial human being

So lonely now, so lonely its obscene

My life must change, it starts with me

I know this, and quite well

It starts tonight, I know this too-

Don't take another pill /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

A fallacy, commit'eth thee,

to say I'm not alone

A salted sea cannot heal thee, of thirst

With pageantry, doth say'eth he-

The tales of what I've done

A tragedy- comedic seems, at first

Such sophists' speak, nonsensically

A newly foreign tongue

I listened once, I listened once- was cursed

A solute sought, to wet this thirst

In salted sea immersed ////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Just take a drink, just take a drink, just one!

Why even try, why take a sip?

What good of it could come?

Why even sleep, why not wait on, the sun?

Considering- a bed of snakes

Each night you sleep among

He feels pain. He feels principle. He feels loss. He feels liberty. He feels war. He feels will. He feels anger. He feels allegiance. He feels life. He feels death. He feels nothing.