Heartbreak Poems

Inspired

stare down a tunnel, i dare
watch from afar the affairs of the other side
people dance without care while you watch
trapped in metal bars like the wild bear they think you are

grey eyes of intrigue, they compare
yes just that, matched like a perfect pair
like polluted layers of fog floating freely through air
trapped color behind iron doors in desperate need of repair

a stare, as dirty as piling dishes,
their reminder of the passing despair,
honey eyes beg to be brought back to light
depths of color rotting slowing in their prison lair

a grin, like a slow mental tear
physical disruption of the person once there,
i want so badly not to care

images of regrets flash like a cinema screen
their transparent sheen a sheet of white on my skin
to feel a body lean on the doors of moving trains
waiting for a scream proving their existence

and oh to be seen as more than that grin
the painful ripping of a gene that created itself
begging to be recognized as something more than teen angst
a name

Until then
tell me everything.
i will sit, and i will sing with the grin forever sitting
upon the very skin that was once only mine.

i dont mind the suffering
the tunnel is a safe distance from the front of my mind
and maybe the villain isn't the polluting population
but more the warden of the prison hiding the eyes

but if you cant count on anyone but yourself,
i am the judge and jury who made it through the lies
and counted the paces to the prison cell
which would hold myself until say my last goodbye