Twenty-Something

I wrote this poem with risk in mind. Especially the risk of love. But also the risk of life. We all roll the dice with our decisions.

I want to believe in love. And I think my writing displays a sort of yearning for that.

I'll be honest with myself and the world. I am kind of a lonely guy. I order chinese food for two all the time thinking..jeez someone should be here eating this with me. Or i'll put on a good movie and it's like..jeez someone should be here watching this with me.

It can get lonely here in my studio apartment. 

I do what I can to get out and about but days like today-all rainy and stuff-are the days where I just want to cuddle and watch movies.

Anywaysss enough of my complaining. Here's the poem titled Twenty-Something.

Can you see the chaos in these eyes?

Dark blue like an angry ocean.

Got a habit of throwing myself into unwanted arms.

Who can feel me on that?

Tossed from a life with nothing but my hat.

I cluch it close to my chest.

Approaching a new women I try to convince myself she aint like the rest.

But old habits die hard and i'm bout that chest.

So what else?

Sometimes all I got is my board and a dream.

Like I might round a corner and come across a new scheme.

We're all scrambling to become sucessful twenty-somethings

Scared of reaching thirty and looking back with a sigh,

"I want that back"

She can't help but lament as she looks in the mirror.

Counting the lines on her face.

Picturing herself..

Shedding tears at the altar.

Just happy love happened.

That those stars met on that special night.

That those eyes locked at that right moment.

And she was falling into a rut at the time.

Getting tired of work.

Rolling around in bed alone craving a lover.

And he was tired of the same old same old.

And he saw danger in those eyes.

Down for the risk he strolls over.

Down for the risk.

Down for the inevitable plunge that we all take.

When pushed close enough to the edge.

Deep breath.

You gotta believe in love before it appears on a rainy day.

With a comforting glance and a warm embrace.

Just twenty something with a dream...