Purpose

There is nothing in this world that I wouldn’t do as long as I have you.
I’d travel across the world and lay with you in the clouds while we watch the stars.
My body moves to the rhythm of your heart beat beneath my hand.
I am not enough, something is missing.
I feel incomplete.
I wake each day with a purpose, and today there is nothing.
I’m out of tune.
No graceful pep to my step
My eyes wander as if we just met.
I’ve failed you.
I’ve failed us.
I’m one step away from simply giving up.
We’ve retraced our steps and it’s suddenly out of sync.
My heart does not beat.
I do not breathe.
Lifeless and alone—I have nothing.

Poker face

I sat in the window, overlooking the world.
Children’s laughter suddenly fills my ears.
The familiar sound of passersby trying to familiarize themselves with one another.
A knowing glance, possibly even a certain stance
It was enough to say hello.
It was enough to say goodbye.
My hands sprang forward as my face arched past the window.
Contend with this world and yet I’ve suddenly felt more fragile.
My thoughts of content linger in the air as a feeling deep inside me heated  my skin.
Is that jealousy?
Is that pain?
Why are my feelings of distraught suddenly on display?
Sweet emotions forevermore displayed on my face.
A hand at poker would be a loss.
A lie once told would never be forgotten.
I wear these emotions even if I say nothing.

Nevermore

Soul that bleeds, yet does not speak.
Sky that weaps, yet does not see.
Reoccuring questions that posess no answers.
Fortune-tellers’ hands pouring empty thoughts and emotions.
Civilians passing by strangers with angelic faces.
The faces of loved ones that never made it.
Heads spinning at the sound of the rolling skies.
Hail makes its presence on earth as god makes his discomfort known.
The lives of many forgotten with each passing moment.
He waits…
Nevermore.
Nevermore.
The world is silenced with the roar from the sky.
Millions of eyes stare up at the unknown.
They wait for the rapture from above to be thrown down to the soil below with hands clasped tightly upon their skulls.
Faces full of pain, they whisper,
“Nevermore. Nevermore.”