I am a tree in the winter time. My confidence is the leaves falling off the tree. I am just there sitting still for hours doing nothing. My sanity slowly starts to whither away. I go through phases. I am silent and still. My insecurities are the ugly dead branches. I am a tree in different seasons. When I go through a phase of emptiness and sadness I begin to change. The flowers that bloom are my confidence. I’m more alive. I feel free. My sanity grows back. But slowly I start to whither away again. My green happy confidence turns to yellow-orange doubt. Slowly getting less and less confidence. I start swaying back and forth due to pressure. The people around me also start to whither away. I go back to my phase of sadness. I feel dead and numb. My confidence is now gone and only have my insecurities. And now only sitting still for hours on end. It’s a cycle of changes. Changing my attitude and my looks. I am a tree going through the four seasons.
Not Alone
I always hear how
I am not alone,
That there are others
Who feel the same I do.
But when it’s 4:00 am
And my eyes burn
With tear-stained cheeks,
And there’s nobody there
To hear my muffled cries,
It’s hard to believe
How anybody can feel
As broken as me
Deadly
What is more deadly,
A thought or a gun?
A gun gives you the opportunity,
But a thought pulls the trigger
Death
I knocked on death’s door
Knowing exactly what
I was looking for
I offered myself up
On a silver platter
But it made no difference
I didn’t matter
Death sent me packing
Before I even made it halfway
Saying
I don’t want you here
Please go away
I was forced back to life
Feeling pure agony
As the pills I swallowed
Got heaved
As the cuts on my body
Ceased to bleed
But I cleaned myself up
Pretending to be fine
Because when even death doesn’t want you
It strikes you
Deep inside
Give Me Candy
Give me some candy
Cause my life’s too bitter
I just wanna feel better
So gimmie a treat
And when my teeth grow rotten
And I live on the streets
Just gimmie some candy
And it won’t matter to me
I just want some candy
Forgetting the price
Been living kinda dirty
But it tastes so nice
And when I feel rotten
On the inside
Just gimmie double the candy
And I’ll live happily
Soap Opera
I have a little frog
His name is Tiny Jim
I put him in the sink
To see if he could do my dishes
And he drank my dish soap
And when he tried to sing
The sing turned into a soap opera
Elmore Night
As they rest in elmore one or two or more
as they sleep lets take a peak in the dreams of little old peat
why o why is there such heat i am beat so tired from the heat
why o why my feet why o why are you torturing little old peat
o little old peat was torched by the heat poor little old peat for his feet were small and tired
but now onto the dreams of very old brier
the sky was cold and dank then a boom and i sank
down and down my plane then split in two
and i know i was threw
very old brier was a solder then retired
his plane was shot down it brings me a frown
but now through the town gray and brown i found
a hound
oh lucky is me oh lucky is i for i might cry
i found a tie and a guy that gave me his tie
I might cry
the young hound all white and brown in his dream
he did not frown but we will look again in this little town
elmore will now found a day anew now good night through and through.
Because of You
You have helped me laugh
You have dried my tears
Because of you
I have no fears.
Growing Older
It’s been awhile since i felt the warm sun on my face.
The years went by so fast.
I was getting old so old that twigs and leaves were
growing out of my ears.
The kids always came, everyday they came and
climbed up my limbs and picked the fresh apples.
But one day, the tree cutters came
All the kids gathered around and sat by me.
They said these words “No! Don’t cut down the Wise tree!”
After a while the cutters left.
The kids still come to this day.
Artist
I want to sigh
I want to cry
And I hate to admit it but
I want to die
To stop this endless pain
To never again get out of bed
To stop cutting up my skin
Like it’s paper
And my blade a pen
But I’m an artist
And I can’t stop
Each cut closer
To finishing my masterpeice
But it will soon fade Till little white lines
Are all that remain
And if I make a mistake
I’ll cut and cut
Till the blood covers up
Any thing I made
And then I’ll start over
Onto a clean slate
And I’ll trace the lies somethimes
Remembering the stories
That lay behind each line