Poems as Strange as Llamas

Livvy's Lament

I sing to myself in the rain

I'm all alone, left behind

watching the stars twinkle past the quiet streetlights

You laugh with them in a distance

I watch and observe

but I'm by myself

won't you come join me?

I'm crying to myself

singing songs of dying girls and wishes untold

why don't you understand that I'm all by myself?

Time heals all wounds, they say

will it fix a broken heart?

Will it calm the hopes of the desperate

and bring back the suicidal?

Can it ease the suffering of loss

or even make the tears from dropping?

Tell me, if time heals all wounds

why am I not standing?

Why aren't I laughing by your side

or holding you to keep warm

I think to myself

all out in the big world

will I ever have you there

or am I just thinking of the impossible?

You look through me like a shard of glass,

yet you can't see what's inside me.

I'm an open book;

why don't you pick me up and see what I have to say

I laugh to myself

thinking about times I could've had

but instead I'm left with an empty space

waiting to be filled.