Submissions by fredoverthere

I APOLOGIZE
MY LOW ESTEEM TURNED OUTWARD
BAD INTENTIONS
WORDS AND ANGRY OUTBURSTS
NOT PASSING FORWARD
ALL THAT YOU HAVE SHARED
GOOD INTENTIONS
KIND AND GENTLE WAYS
NOT THE REWARD
YOU DESERVED
BRINGING DARKNESS
TO YOUR BRIGHT AND SUNNY WAYS

A
Slivers Saturate
Speck swells slowly
Seeping into Silhouette
Hues
Hemorrhage
Blue to Black
Pressing Pains
Bloat Burdens
Drown Defenses
Drain Desires
As
Senses Swell
Worry Wells
Sorrows Spring
Boundless
Saline sentiment
Tears Team
Faculties Fill
Unbound
Flow Free
Charging cheek
Rippling round
Dimples Dent
Lightly Lingering
On
Languished lips
Lavished by the tongue
Savored by the Soul

What is the point of a note? Is it for those you’ve left behind?
Is it to justify or validate ones own reasons for ending that which one had no control to begin.
I am not sure.
Maybe the words are for me to finalize the backroom deal of my minds eye.
I may be writing as practice for a wedding ceremony; perfecting steps that ultimately lead to a marriage with eternity.
Like a groom, I am having last minute doubts of the pending commitment, that I intend to carry out.
You see life without hope, optimism, or confidence is a living death indeed.
Dead a long ago, to my...

In the middle of a crowded room
Laughter all around
Smiles abound
Embraces surround
Unreachable
Engulfed by emptiness
Unable to feel the warmth of another
Only the coolness of the vacuous air
That fills the space between us

Your index finger covered pursed lips, but not
Your shallow, soulless, emptiness,
Your silent voice did not muffle the words you did not mumble
Your act was succinct, my tear filled memory taken me to the brink
You swallowed my misery, bereft you left me hollow
You were nowhere to be found
You slipped away in silence, as my pleas echoed inside
You