Write a letter
To your lover
Write a letter
Fro all the times she’s gone
For what she doesn’t understand
For who you are
And who you aren’t
For your inescapable illusions
Write a letter
For your dying god
For the almighty dying
Inside of your soul
For your absence of faith
For the hole in your heart
Filled with logic and knowledge
The knowledge that he was never there at all
Write a letter for the words you cannot say
The sounds too painful
The truths too honest
A part too close to who you are
Write a letter
That maybe you could share




Write a letter
To your mother
To yourself
Write a letter
For all you’ve done
For your values
and your anger
for your sadness
and your horror
write a letter
for the god
that died inside
of the letter
to your heart
write a letter
to make it alright
to calm your chaos
and save you satan
write a letter
to apologize and eulogize
write a letter
to your mother
and seal it
with flames




write a poem
to read in class
write a poem
a work to perform
of how you feel
and how you are
write a poem
of your dreams
and of your secrets
write a poem
for your cowardice
for the poems not read
but written hidden
away
write a poem
because I told you to

01/07/2011

Author's Note: i wrote this along time ago rediscovered and thought it was cool

Posted on 01/07/2011
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