My Own Worst Enemy

Wed, 12/25/2013 - 02:18 -- TuckerB

Have you ever been so surrounded by family

And yet felt so alone

Have you ever looked in a mirror not wanting to see

The face looking back at your own

 

Do you listen to songs in a different language

So as to not know what they have to say

So as to feel that you have successfully evaded

The reminders of your own lost way

 

You know wrong from right, you're a grown man

But at some point you forgot how right felt

And wrong felt right and you gave no damn

Worst part is you can't even blame the hand you were dealt

 

Addictions and convictions replace your feelings

Take the burn and push it deep down under

Never mind that they prevent the healings

Don't die from one thing it will be from another

 

But has it ever occured that's it all your fault

That the one you loved is the one worst off

That they had their own wounds and you filled them with salt

And still claimed to the world your heart was ever so soft

 

Keep telling yourself you're not that bad

Keep succedding in everything to lose it all

They all believe that you're so fucking glad

But behind the facade your are failing and its a hard and lonely fall.

Comments

xixi743

Wow. Loved it. So many great little details in your poem. Some of these lines really hit home.

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