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Waiting Here (For You)

July 24, 2019
By _Jesse_ BRONZE, Rancho Cucamonga, California
_Jesse_ BRONZE, Rancho Cucamonga, California
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Life

Opens my eyes

Feelings inside, they revive

And they don't lie.

I, do not pretend

I am not caring.

 

Lights

Flickering out

Turn them back on, I see things

That I don't want.

You, won't understand

All that I'm feeling.

 

You've said those words before but you'd love to hide

From them to get me asking another time:

 

Why is it you're so busy,

Why are you always so bare?

Of all the emotions,

Why am I never aware?

 

Of all the things I did you never seemed to care

Why are you so unmoving, and why am I still waiting here?

 

Sight

Unseen but there

I am prepared

For a war that won't be won.

Lies, excuses and fights

I am so tired.

 

White

Bedsheet and lights

Reminding me how bare

This room is without you here.

How, can you just leave

Like you have no feelings?

 

Like ashes that once burned but will never rise

I sift through all my knots for the one you've tied:

 

If all I'm doing is just pleading,

Why do you act like a snare?

Trapping me inside cages,

My mind is reeling and I'm scared.

 

How do I say your name without remembering how you tear

My love from me, and from you I never got my share.

 

If 

I know for fact

You do not care about me why then am I

Still hoping to see you with devotion?

Starting, shutting off

Fixing mistakes, reprogramming like a stray code

You've pulled from me more

Energy than I can offer.

 

Why do don't you pull me close or ask me to me near?

'cause I'm at a loss now, and I might not keep waiting here.


The author's comments:

**fyi: when I was submitting this I could not see the images no matter what I tried. So, sorry if the picture does not fit the context at all. I'll definitely try to figure that out next time.


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