This is a poem I wrote several years ago about my best friend. I never plan on sharing it with him, it's not something that even needs to be said, but whether he knows it or not, he has saved my life on more than one occasion.
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March, Ye Bandits
This is an example of a poem that practically wrote itself. The phrase came to me randomly and I decided to make a very transparent, awesome, poem about it, and in doing so the unique structure came about.
Oh, Poetry
A poem I wrote late the other night in the wake of insomnia, as a plea for the process of writing to put me to sleep.
The Ever-Open Road
A poem I wrote recently as a metaphor for life. I was going to make it a significantly longer poem, but it told me that it was finished, and so it was.
All I Have Ever Learned from Love
A poem I just finished, and for this one, the title says it all.
I Won’t Give Up
A poem I wrote tonight about how I would give up everything in the world, but I will not give up on the one I love. Love is everything, and I would take it above all things.
Earnest Emotions
A poem I wrote last night about how others do not understand my emotions; they do not get why I feel such pain after love has ended, but that is because they didn't know the half of how fiercely I loved in the first place. I feel both love and pain very deeply.
On the Noose or the Podium
A poem I wrote today about how I am at the point in my life where all of my thoughts are of death but all of my desires are to be more successful than ever, and about how many of my friendships are very one-sided and therefore I question their care for my existence at all as to whether I should die or thrive.
Pitfalls of Fall
A poem I wrote earlier today in which my lover is comparable to a branch, and how my thoughts as of late have made my heart and mind comparable to a decrepit leaf falling from said branch.
Just Move Along
A song I wrote several years ago, one of the first songs I ever wrote, about being so broken from being strung along that you become numb and just want it to end.
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