Words of a Poet

Don’t Be Mad
July 10th, 2008

Don’t be mad, that it’s over now
It’s time to go, I’ve been waiting
Don’t be mad
You didn’t try hard enough
And gave up too soon
I’ve been trying enough
Don’t be mad
That you forgot what was important
And was too selfish to see
I didn’t.
Don’t be mad
That your heart is broken
And that you blame me
I have a broken heart too.
Don’t be mad that it’s too late
You let too much time go by
You can’t go back and change it
I wouldn’t.
Don’t be mad

by Matthew Henrickson

Before You

Before you, I felt no reason minute after minute…
hour after hour…

Before you, I seemed no purpose day after day…
night after night…

I knew not the joy a true love could bring
week after week…
and month after month…

Now year after year, you bring happiness a bliss I never knew…

before you.

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

Nothing Lasts Forever
July 9th, 2008

Nothing lasts for always
It takes forever
Too long to survive time
Too hard to live that long
My heart too small to be devoted to you
Too selfish to try
I can’t give it to you
I can’t be yours always.

Nothing lasts forever.

When I tried I was naive
You turned your back to the gesture
Because it wasn’t enough.
It wasn’t a promise I could keep
It wasn’t for always
It couldn’t be forever.

Nothing lasts forever.

by Matthew Henrickson

I’ve been listening to a lot of Maroon 5 lately. This is one of my favorite songs from their CD, It Won’t Be Soon Before Long.

Nothing Lasts Forever

It is so easy to see
Dysfunction between you and me
We must free up these tired souls
Before the sadness kills us both
I tried and tried to let you know
I love you but I’m letting go
It may not last but I don’t know
Just don’t know

If you don’t know
Then you can’t care
And you show up
But you’re not there
But I’m waiting
And you want to
Still afraid that I will desert you

Everyday
With every worthless word we get more far away
The distance between us makes it so hard to stay
But nothing lasts forever, but be honest babe
It hurts but it may be the only way

A bed that’s warm with memories
Can heal us temporarily
The misbehaving only makes
The ditch between us so damn deep
Built a wall around my heart
I’ll never let it fall apart
But strangely I wish secretly
It would fall down while I’m asleep

If you don’t know
Then you can’t care
And you show up
But you’re not there
But I’m waiting
And you want to
Still afraid that I will desert you, babe

Everyday
With every worthless word we get more far away
The distance between us makes it so hard to stay
But nothing lasts forever, but be honest babe
It hurts but it may be the only way

Tough we have not hit the ground
It doesn’t mean we’re not still falling,
Ohhhhhh
I want so bad to pick you up
But you’re still too reluctant to accept my help
What a shame, I hope you find somewhere to place the blame
But until then the fact remains

Everyday
With every worthless word we get more far away
The distance between us makes you so hard to stay
Nothing lasts forever, but be honest babe
It hurts but it may be the only way

Everyday
With every worthless word we get more far away
The distance between us makes it so hard to stay
But nothing lasts forever, but be honest babe
It hurts but it may be the only way

Empty
June 28th, 2008

I hate looking out the window
Waiting for you to come home
I can’t stand to wait
How long you’ll take
To come back to me.

All I see is an empty space
Where you need to be
I keep waiting for it to get better
For you not to be so mad

I’ll no longer stand by that window
Looking out for you
Checking the time
As the hours go by.

There won’t be this empty space

by Matthew Henrickson

For never feeling like it’s enough…

It’s Never Enough
June 28th, 2008

My best always falls short
Short of your expectations of me
Not enough of what you want
What you need
It’s never enough.

I don’t say the right things
My words don’t come out right
It’s never what you want to hear
What you need to hear
It’s never enough.

My feelings never seem to be strong enough
You think you know how I feel
It’s never what you want
It’s never what you need
It’s never enough.

My heart is a wound
That isn’t deep enough
It’s not what you want
It’s not what you need
It’s never enough.

I give you all I can
I give you all I have
It’s never what you want
It’s never what you need
It’s never enough.

by Matthew Henrickson

It’s All For You
June 28th, 2008

I’ll take the responsibility
Even if it isn’t mine to bear
Even if it isn’t fair.
I’ll make the sacrifice
Because I’ll always care
Because I’ll always be there.
I will carry the load on my shoulders
So it doesn’t pull you down.
I’ll jump first
So you don’t have to drowned.
I’ll take the fall
I’ll take it all
Just so you don’t feel any pain
And in the end

I’ll take the loss
So you don’t have to lose.

by Matthew Henrickson

To Matthew, for just one more happy day.

On the Real World June 25th episode, Brianna Taylor recorded her demo. I thought it was a beautiful song so I put together the lyrics. I also found a place to download the song if you can’t find it leave me a comment.

Summertime

About seven thirty on a saturday
I was waiting for the phone and hoping
You would say to get undressed and
Look you your best for me.
About every night before I go to bed I
Take another look at what you took and said
Thinking more or less the more regress for me.
Now it feels like forever, it’s all been a dream
But I wonder…

Do you think of me
Early in the morning
Late in the evening
Back in that summertime when
You were mine you see.
You made me so crazy
Shocked and amazed me
You were my tear to cry
My lullaby to sing
Now I wanna be, I gotta be your girl
I just wanna be, I gotta be your girl.

So when you told me baby that you needed time
Well did you mean to say you needed piece of mind
Cause well, you cheated me and treated me so bad
If I could take it back I know I would for sure
Back to rainy nights and kisses at my door
Remember whens and now and thens we had
And now I’m not mistaken it is what it seems
but I wonder…

Would you still want me
Early in the morning
Late in the evening
Back in that summertime when
You were mine you see.
You made me so crazy
Shocked and amazed me
You were my tear to cry
My lullaby to sing
Now I wanna be, I gotta be your girl
I just wanna be, I gotta be your girl

I been talking bout you leavin me, deceiving me
I been thinking bout you shaken me, heart breaking me
I been dreamin awayyyyyyyyyyy
would you still want me.

Early in the morning
Late in the evening
Back in that summertime when
You were mine you see
You made me so crazy
Shocked and amazed me
You were my tear to cry
My lullaby to sing, yeah
Now I wanna be, I gotta be your girl
Ohhh, I just wanna be, I gotta be your girl.

By Brianna Taylor

A Dream Within a Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

By Edgar Allan Poe

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

by Robert Frost