Words of a Poet

Fall For You by Secondhand Serenade

The best thing about tonight’s that we’re not fighting
Could it be that we have been this way before
I know you don’t think that I am trying
I know you’re wearing thin down to the core

But hold your breath
Because tonight will be the night that I will fall for you
Over again
Don’t make me change my mind
Or I won’t live to see another day
I swear it’s true
Because a girl like you is impossible to find
You’re impossible to find

This is not what I intended
I always swore to you I’d never fall apart
You always thought that I was stronger
I may have failed
But I have loved you from the start
Oohhh…

But hold your breath
Because tonight will be the night that I will fall for you
Over again
Don’t make me change my mind
Or I won’t live to see another day
I swear it’s true
Because a girl like you is impossible to find
It’s impossible

So breathe in so deep
Breathe me in
I’m yours to keep
And hold onto your words
‘Cause talk is cheap
And remember me tonight
When you’re asleep

Because tonight will be the night that I will fall for you
Over again
Don’t make me change my mind
Or I won’t live to see another day
I swear it’s true
Because a girl like you is impossible to find

Tonight will be the night that I will fall for you
Over again
Don’t make me change my mind
Or I won’t live to see another day
I swear it’s true
Because a girl like you is impossible to find
You’re impossible to find

This is the perfect song, I love you Emma Jean.

Falling To Pieces
August 22nd, 2008

Frustration eating me inside and out
Trying to keep it together
As I slowly fall apart
The cracks in my soul show through
As if my entire body was cut in half
Then again.

Picking myself up as I go
Trying to keep it together
All in one piece.
But those pieces of me are crumbling on the floor
Barely keeping it in.
I can’t put the pieces back together
Of the puzzle
That has become my life.

I can’t keep it together.
Until I explode,
Dropping all of those pieces.
In turn losing myself
And You.

by Matthew Henrickson

No Air by Jordin Sparks Featuring Chris Brown

Tell me how I’m supposed to breathe with no air

If I should die before I wake
It’s ’cause you took my breath away
Losing you is like living in a world with no air
Oh

I’m here alone, didn’t wanna leave
My heart won’t move, it’s incomplete
Wish there was a way that I can make you understand

But how do you expect me
to live alone with just me
‘Cause my world revolves around you
It’s so hard for me to breathe

[Chorus:]
Tell me how I’m supposed to breathe with no air
Can’t live, can’t breathe with no air
It’s how I feel whenever you ain’t there
It’s no air, no air
Got me out here in the water so deep
Tell me how you gonna be without me
If you ain’t here, I just can’t breathe
It’s no air, no air

No air, air
No air, air
No air, air
No air, air

I walked, I ran, I jumped, I flew
Right off the ground to float to you
There’s no gravity to hold me down for real

But somehow I’m still alive inside
You took my breath, but I survived
I don’t know how, but I don’t even care

So how do you expect me
to live alone with just me
‘Cause my world revolves around you
It’s so hard for me to breathe

[Chorus]

No air, air
No air, air
No air, air
No air, air
No more
It’s no air, no air

[Chorus x2]

No air, air
No air, air
No air, air
No air, air

Uncertainty
August 5th, 2008

My life is made up of
permanence from past
with no promises
for today.
Never know what type of day
Always uncertain.
Uncertain whether
I will wake up the next day
or, if I’ll even want to.

by Matthew Henrickson

Constant Pain
August 5th 2008

The only thing in life
That is constantly pain
Is love.
Love is never perfect.
It too
Is always uncertain.

by Matthew Henrickson

Permanent
August 5th, 2008

The only thing in life
That is permanent
Is the past.
Today is never promised
And tomorrow
Is always uncertain.

by Matthew Henrickson

I wanted it to be longer, but it looked finished to me. Even tattoos aren’t permanent anymore.

I Am Offering This Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca

I am offering this poem to you,
since I have nothing else to give.
Keep it like a warm coat,
when winter comes to cover you,
or like a pair of thick socks
the cold cannot bite through,

I love you,

I have nothing else to give you,
so it is a pot full of yellow corn
to warm your belly in the winter,
it is a scarf for your head, to wear
over your hair, to tie up around your face,

I love you,

Keep it, treasure it as you would
if you were lost, needing direction,
in the wilderness life becomes when mature;
and in the corner of your drawer,
tucked away like a cabin or a hogan
in dense trees, come knocking,
and I will answer, give you directions,
and let you warm yourself by this fire,
rest by this fire, and make you feel safe,

I love you,

It’s all I have to give,
and it’s all anyone needs to live,
and to go on living inside,
when the world outside
no longer cares if you live or die;
remember,

I love you.

I strongly recommend reading No Place to Stand. I just finished reading it for the second time, it made me love Jimmy all over again. I’ve posted another great poem from him titled Who Understands Me But Me.

…On The Trigger
July 13th, 2008

Your hand on my throat
My hand on the gun
My finger on the trigger
Pointed at me.

Your eyes in my heart
My heart in your heart
My tears on my cheek
Your tears on the floor
Standing next to me
As you let go of my throat
Your eyes leave my heart
My heart leaves yours
My hand off the gun
but my finger pulls the trigger.

by Matthew Henrickson

I’ll Dream Of You

I’ll dream of you… I must.
I kneel and pray, for time that we can never share
Still, I feel I must.

I love you for reasons… I cannot understand,
you were once mine… all mine.
You brought much happiness to my life, it meant so much…
you mean so much.

For all the days of your life, when you’re lonely,
think of me.
I will remember you always…
With love.

by Antwone Fisher from Who Will Cry for the Little Boy?

Danity Kane has a good and catchy CD this time around. Damaged is a little played out, so I suggest checking out this song. It’s Poetry.

Poetry

When I stand in a crowded room
I feel alone like nobody’s there
And when you talk cold to me
I can see your breath in the air
It’s taking it’s toll on me
In the bathroom taking showers
So you don’t see me cry
Baby it’s such a crime

I try to feel confident
I’m bitter, you’re not making sense
I missed you ’til you almost took my sanity
I started a new verse like

Poetry, you’re hiding behind the words you speak
Changing the words of the story
You say you don’t love me then say that you love me
I’m fighting
You’re hiding behind the words you’re speaking
You’re changing the words, I’m lost in the verse
You say you don’t love me then say that you love me
Why are you hiding?

When I give you gratitude
You act like you don’t hear me speak
And when I tell you what you do to me
You don’t even hear the truth
What are you trying to prove
I stare out of the window for hours
Cause you don’t listen to me
You won’t even look in my eyes

I try to feel confident
I’m bitter you’re not making sense
I missed you ’til you almost took my sanity
I started a new verse like

Poetry, you’re hiding behind the words you speak
Changing the words of the story
You say you don’t love me then say that you love me
I’m fighting
You’re hiding behind the words you’re speaking
You’re changing the words, I’m lost in the verse
You say you don’t love me then say that you love me
Why are you hiding?

Don’t believe what you’re saying
I read your face and I’m blanking
Cause I don’t know what’s in front of my eyes
I try to feel confident

I try to feel confident
I’m bitter – You’re not making sense
I missed you ’til you almost took my sanity

I’m starting a new verse like

Poetry, you’re hiding behind the words you speak
Changing the words of the story
You say you don’t love me then say that you love me
I’m fighting

Poetry, you’re hiding behind the words you speak
Changing the words of the story
You say you don’t love me then say that you love me
I’m fighting

Poetry, you’re hiding behind the words you speak
Changing the words of the story
You say you don’t love me then say that you love me
I’m fighting
You’re hiding behind the words you’re speaking
You’re changing the words, I’m lost in the verse
You say you don’t love me then say that you love me
Why are you hiding?

by Danity Kane from Welcome to the Dollhouse