On days like today
I really don't know
just who I am
what am I trying to
achieve in life?
running around in
long, looping circles
the same problems
repeating itself
like a faulty clock radio
always in the space
of, oh, six months
something happens
that connects my heart
latches on, and won't let go
until I've drained every last
breath and blood
of life from it.
when it is your turn?
when is it my turn?
to have someone feel this way
about me.

I've fallen in love with you
totally incompatible
I don't know what I should do

To be so different, yet so detached
our lives parallel
although it's obvious we are mismatched

Most days I really would like

to be somebody

anybody

and others, I am happy just being

me.

they say that you have talent
when your fingers tickle the ivory keys
pressing out tunes and melodies
in a way that I could only dream of

some may also say that it is unfair
to have that talent
and to be ridiculously handsome,
a smile like a thousand headlights

but naturally, you are oblivious to that
the effect that you have
which radiates around you.

How can I live on dial-up?
This I do not know.
Perhaps there is more to life
Than interacting via an electronic cable
blip, blip, beep, beep
56kbs.

It hurts me
Like a dull ache
Deep inside my Stomach
Whats happening inside me?
I clasp my hands around my body
Trying to hold all the pain inside but it's
Coming out, spewing forth, erupting violently.

The necessary unhappiness
of an unrequited dream
hits me hard
and almost swallows me whole

i tried to say goodbye
but my heart wasn't in it
you are everything i want
my loves broken this limit

i can't turn my back on you
so innocent and pure
i have never met a man like you
bordering on the obscure

so here i go again
i don't know when it will be over
i give a gift to you, take it
my heart you are it's owner

side note: this is the second rhyming poem I have written in two days. not sure if I prefer it, I do really love freeform. Lets stick to the same subject, but in freeform, and we will see what works best.

I wanted to leave you
locked inside a dark cage
i dare not return to it
but it called me back.
Opening up my eyes
once more I see you
haunted and hollow
how can I turn my back
on you
and run away, I do not
want this
but the moonlight in
your smile shows me
how to breathe again.

I shook my head in denial
I didn’t want to believe it was true
Everyone else seemed to know
What you seem is not really you.

I have pieced together
So many findings that were there
That I can’t reject any longer
The knowledge that I now have to share

You didn’t even understand
But about you so much was discovered
I am saddened to let you go
My beautiful and mysterious beloved.

I drink you in like an alcoholic
the smell of you sending me wild
drunk from your very essence

My nose pressed into your hair
it tickles my nostrils until the air
I breathe is filled with embers

Lightning travels rapidly up
and down my body, touching so
many places at once, not quick enough

I am on fire, skin hot like the flames
of your fingers, touching, burning
filling me with the desire for you