I HATE SLEEPING ALONE

I hate sleeping alone

Cos I’m tossing and turning on my side of the bed

Leaving your side alone

So my side is hot and sweaty

Your side is cool and dry

But I still leave it empty

Even though you’re not home

I hate sleeping alone

Cos no matter how hard I wrap the sheets around me

I still feel the cold

So I’m shaking and shivering

Teeth clattering I’m freezing

Its 80 degrees and I’m still cold to the bone

I hate sleeping alone

Cos those sweet dreams I have when you’re here

 Are replaced by nightmares when you’re gone

So my calm peaceful sleep

Replaced by tired fitful sleep

I have to stay awake all night

And it’s all because you’re not home

I hate sleeping alone

Cos I miss that smile on your face that you greet me with every morn

And that smile lets me know the days going to be great

So you know my day is terrible

When that smile is gone

I hate sleeping alone

Cos you know how I like to hug and kiss and nibble on your toes

So my hands are idle and fidgety

My lips are bored and twitchy

I just had to do something

So I sat and wrote this poem

FACEBOOK BROKE MY HEART

Facebook broke my heart

I logged on, took one look at my wall, and was changed forever

I didn’t even know I felt anything before

Until I felt the after

And then I knew

Facebook broke my heart

And all because I saw you and a familiar face

And suddenly it made so much sense

Light bulb moment

The mystery was solved

Now I know he fixed more than just those brakes

And my heart is broken

Facebook broke my heart

I can’t help but notice

Your album is full of photos of him

And none of me

That your status proudly displays: in a relationship with…

And I couldn’t even get that acknowledgement

Would have never have thought HE would be even close to competition

But here I am staying up late writing this

While you are probably asleep in his arms

And now I hate Facebook: it broke my heart

Now I’m looking for closure

Deleting your number

All those text messages I keep reading over and again

Deleting all your pictures

Yes even that one of you wearing my shoes that I love so much

Deleting every song that you ever said you liked

I’m not going to Waffle House for a year

I stopped playing the piano

I’m burning those sheets that you love

But I’m still keeping that Facebook account

Maybe eventually, it will heal what it broke

NEVER SAY I LOVE YOU

We can spend all the time we have left in this world together

Live happily ever after

Be with each other forever

 But never say I love you

We can make the sweetest love

Bodies in-sync making music

Lay in each other’s arms all night

But never say I love you

We can hug and squeeze

And cuddle and kiss

And tickle and tease

But never say I love you

We can make plans for the future

Not see tomorrow without each other

Have beautiful kids and start a family

But never say I love you

You can show you love me

 Make it plain for the whole world to see

Leave them with no doubt in their minds

 But never say I love you

You see

All my life love has disappointed me

My father loved me then he hit me

My mother loved me then she left me

God loved me then he cursed me

I refuse to talk about my past relationships

So now that it’s all perfect with us

The last thing I want to do is jinx it

By saying the name of that treacherous thing called love

So you can buy me flowers and gifts, buy me the world

Show me you love me in a million different ways; you have to

But please, please, PLEASE

Don’t forget the cardinal rule

NEVER SAY I LOVE YOU

THE GREATEST PAIN

Pain of gain

Pain of loss

Pain of life

Pain of death

Pain of joy

Pain of sorrow

Pain of sickness

Pain of health

Pain of the sweet

Pain of the sour

Pain of the rich

Pain of the poor

But the pain of loneliness

Must surpass all

STEEL MAGNOLIAS

She reminds me of steel magnolias

Not that I have ever seen steel magnolias

But I like to think if magnolias were made of steel

They would be just like her

So non-committal in her manner

Picture book definition of happy-go-lucky

Care free, living life as it comes

And then just out of the blue

There is a comment that could only have been the result of deep reflection

Even her hair cannot decide what colour to be

One colour now, another the next

Then two or three shades at the same time

Complicated- just like her

I think of a million questions when I stare into those eyes

And then I have none

Sometimes the mystery is more intriguing than the solution

So you deliberately refuse to find answers

Hoping to prolong ignorance’s bliss

See the magnolias are in the look, the posture the smile, the frown

The flowing hair, the smell of which mixed with tobacco breath

Is so strangely appealing

But even in what would seem the most vulnerable state

When every wish should be granted

A simple request is met with a strong NO: STEEL

Contrasting personalities that in others will seem so schizophrenic

Lunatic almost

In her co-habit so naturally

Ying-yang

Hot-cold

Day-night

Steel-Magnolias

LOVE

What is love

I ask myself

Is it like a dove

Flying free by itself

Or is it like a curse

When it is dealt

For it can conquer the heart

Cause destruction of self

GUYS LIKE ME

Guys like me are hard to find

We are always there when you need us

We hold your hand through it all

Give you a shoulder to cry on

Always a phone call away

Ready with a few kind words

But you always leave us for guys like him

Guy s like me

 You call us perfect

Soul mate

Your prince charming

 The man of your dreams

Guys like him

you call cheat

Insensitive

Immature

Heartbreaker

But somehow you always end up with guys like him

Guys like me we always do everything right

We listen

Hold back until you are done

Cuddle after the act

Take you shopping

Know all your friends

Pretend to like all your friends

Never flirt with any of your friends

Share gossip

Pick up the check

But you still end up with guys like him

It’s sad that guys like me

Never fall for girls like me

We always fall for girls like you