Why do I feel like we've been here before On the same tresses of unsought love and more? It was safe to say we've known more than we could From a lifetime of desire and want—we knew we would Sail past the point we'd never be sure to have fruition The isles of scars and asked questions void of solution Why do I feel like I've been saying these things again? All the fleeting verses of thirst—am I mistaken? Have I used the same rhymes and the same beats For someone else not trying to get through the slits Of my dying heart, the seeds I should never have sown Darling, you are a silence I wished to have never known
But we keep trying—sailing through the rocks and shards Of our hears—things people played like decks of cards Nothing can ever fix us, not even the love they sell What else do we have to do but to uproot the show and tell There's no magic in second chances, only threats hung Black birds cry and the colorful feathers sweep the young But we keep trying, kept saying we'd grow out of this There is such a thing as youth in ignorance, living in bliss And there we were—past the ideas of love gone cold If we are to lie, may it not be so bitter or so bold Because there is a past—dark place to chill the bone Your silence is something I wished to have never known
And we have been here before—the first and last Staking claim to one's island but never bothering to cast A fleeting look nor care to one's fading light Is it love, darling? I guess not if we're both in hindsight Shall we trek back to the way it was before When we were strangers trying to be more? Because there is peace in wanting to grow and move on But there are shadows lingering, eating our souls I thought I've closed the scares I've wanted to hide So why do I open my mouth and, in dim oaths, abide? In the depths of my heart, there is a silence I need to hone But darling, it wasn't your silence I wished to have known
Why do I keep trying? It's not like I'll be farther Than the road I started in—I'll just be a bother And so my mind told me and I listened to its chatter That's why my love is in pieces and my will faltered If that's my fault, then I'm sorry for everything But I did what I could to save my body that's crumbling There might be nothing more than a year of us out there It's enough and I thank you for all of the given care We have tried and failed to keep a promise made in haste So we chip at the old hurt and gave us a taste Of the bitter life truths and the brokenness of a home Darling, you are the silence I wished to have never known
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Past regrets, anyone? xD
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