He comes stumbling in
Another day of hell
He's barely breathing
Barely hanging on
But all you see
Is that bottle of beer
You can't see the haunting memories
Within the bottle
All you smell is the *****
All you see is that 24 pack
You bark at him to be a man
But don't you see?
Men cannot cry
They are manipulated from birth
The bottle of beer is his medicine
It's his wall of steel
He numbs his feelings
With each drink
Take the bottle away from him
And his raw emotions will **** him
All will sting and a fire will form
Like a tornado with rain
You cannot see what he is trying to escape
All you see is the alcohol
You don't know the sour taste he is turning sweet
With each pull
Erasing the past and sinking him in.

I only write
When all is wrong
I only write
When I can't take it anymore
Lately, I haven't been okay
But you wouldn't know
The brighter my smile
The more damage and pain
I have been enveloped
In anger and sorrow
I am a walking paradox
I try to be happy
But then a tornado ***** me in
Leaving me stripped
Raw in emotion
Why must I feel everything in vain?
I got the sad blues.

I've never been good when it comes to art
My strokes are either too soft or too rough
I can never intertwine the colors just right
To make them seem as if they were meant to be
I am no Leonardo De Vinci
I can't draw with my eyes open
Leonardo drew with his heart
Art is for the passionate eye
I am no artist
I cannot visualize lines
My art is the kind where I string letters together
I play with words not paints
I write with my heart not eyes
My kind of art is called poetry.

You walked out of my life
I turned around
I couldn't watch you leave me
I fought the urge to run after you
To beg you to stay for a little longer.

That was the last time I saw you
Now you are in the arms of another
I'm trying to be okay
I really am
Because I don't care.

She stares at him
He pretends not to notice
He looks up and almost catches her eye
But she quickly looks away
She will never let him hurt her
He will never hurt her
She stares at the ground
Daydreaming about the boy
Across the classroom
He watches her, falling deeper for her smile.

I watched from afar
I never fully understood
How two people could be
In love but not together.

As I watched the sunset in the bed of my truck
I wondered where does it go?
As I was pondering this
The moon came up
The birds stopped chirping
The wolves started howling.

The sun and the moon are deeply in love
One dies to see the other live
The other lives to see the one die.
They are in love but never together.

They were so young and crazy
Whispering I love you
In the back of his truck.

They are graduates now
She is staying in Texas
And he is going overseas
She wants to be a doctor
To save lives
He wants to be a Marine
To defend his country for the greater good.

He comes back
A half year later.

She kisses his cold soft lips
Drawing him in for the last embrace
They put him in underground.

She will never forget him
He's watching over her now
Guarding the gates of Heaven
Waiting for the moment when he will see his love.

They were young and crazy
They were lovers.

Love will consume your heart
Filling it with youth of life
Love will blind you to all evil
Seeing nothing but sunshine and rainbows
Love will shelter you from the storm
Staying indoors wrapped in his arms
The fireplace crackling
Filling the room with endearing warmth
All is right in the universe
When you have found the one
Wrapped in his or her loving arms.