Oct 26, 2014

Charismatic and charming

you were something new

I fell for you quickly

and out of the blue

All territory uncharted

control giving way to meaning

Surrounded by brand spanking new

Hard feelings

I couldn't believe it

it just can't be true

that someone like me

could end up with you

the missing piece to my puzzle

I have to be dreaming

accepting that it's real leads to

Hard feelings

I don't want to doubt you

I pray that I'm wrong

I finally found you

it took me so long

You couldn't be more perfect

you set my heart reeling

I don't know what to do with these

Hard feelings

Judgment clouded by anger

I lash out in rage

blood drips from somewhere

a war has been waged

torn skin and knuckles

that won't soon be healing

and all that I'm left with is

Hard feelings.

I fell off the wagon

there's tracks on my back

I'm lying here empty

like a shell that's been cracked.

I drink down my heartache

eyes roll to the ceiling

and all that I'm left with is

Hard feelings.

Subsided emotions

a face stained with tears

you were the one

I've searched for for years

prayers left unanswered

though broken and kneeling

to rid me at last of these

Hard feelings

I thought you were different

a phoenix from dust

but just like the others

you've broken my trust

Now dead inside

with skin cracked and peeling

I try to make sense of these

Hard feelings

A shell of a person

I'm better off alone

The lights may be on

but nobody's home

How do you recover

from a truth so revealing

when love always paves the way to

Hard feelings