Submissions by Midwest81 (AJ81)

Since I found you I can’t help but feel complete.
To be honest from the moment we met, you knocked me off my feet!!
With out you, there’s an emptiness, a void I cannot fill. I want you to know the love I have for you, always been true and real!!
When we’re not together, my heart, it aches, please understand one touch from you is all it takes!!     Most Certainly…
You and I will pass the test of time, because in you- and only you, I find the final puzzle piece of mine!!

Cupid’s got me acting stupid, like I’m brand new, questioning what to do but I ain’t got a clue//
Second guessing every answer that she’s giving me, surely not but maybe she’s misleading me//
In  my eyes baby girl could do no wrong, but in disguise maybe she’s been disloyal all along//
Has she been creeping while I’m sleeping, God I really wanna know//
When I’m not home is she alone or got somebody on the phone//
The uncertainty is most certainly driving me insane feeling only pain//
Emotions I’m holding in, I can’t even begin to explain what they’re doing to me,...

Tell me why making the right choice feels so bad~remembering everything that I thought we had~times never really seemed that bad//
Guess it was a one sided feeling and it’s killing me that I didn’t see reality for what it was\\ Maybe I could of done things differently make sure that you really knew what you meant to me~ but those were different times other life’s~ and now their out of reach//
Like driving east at sunrise love can be blinding ,finding that getting thru the day can be easier said than done, but I’m second to none//
One of a kind with a sharp mind, struggled with...

dAmAgEd~

 Nothing worse than doubting worth since my date of birth\\                                                                        
  Childhood trauma was an everyday occurrence with no assurance that things would ever change\\                                  
 Emotional warfare was a family tradition in addition to physical abuse no excuse better learn to block out the pain, never complain\\          
  So you damn right •I’m damaged • but I’ve managed to convert into a savage\\                                      
  Where do I  begin,...

InstitutionalizeD~
Spent a-lot of time on the wrong side of the tracks ~ just a product of my environment//
Situations I faced daily~mistakes that made me
Progression was my worst nightmare as I graduated from petty crimes to felonies~theft to “B&E’s” and burglaries//
Thought I was invisible, never getting caught, to slick~then with one slip, my world and everything in it came crashing down ~mean mugged by the whole town//
Waiting on the judges decision~filled with pure anxiety~knowing the words out his mouth were gonna be, “sentenced to prison”//
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