Truth Redefined 1/8/08

This is a jumbled mixture
Added with sweetness and innocence,
Left to be muddled by the world,
Confused by life's liberties and secret privacies,
While lingering upon naive feelings
Ending in regret for the other,
And filled with pure stubbornness and accusations
Wrongly pointed at those aiding,
Just to live in perpetual sorrow,
Only to end in the opposite direction,
Pure true hate spilling from the previously untainted
To mar the outside beauty,
Leaving with only an ounce of regret
But disgust in every cell.


Where I'm From 1/9/08

I'm from wide-ruled paper
and messy cross-outs,
From sloppy handwriting
and unhidden thoughts,
From dark eyeliner
and compliments
From sweet smiles
and innocence pure.

I'm from foreign culture
and secret hopes
From traveling abroad
to fulfill a wish,
I'm from dreams of stars
and dreams of sweet bliss
of knights and castles
of true requited lust.

I'm from jeers and taunts
from sensitized emotions
From drops of rain within
and dancing out loud
From recognized splendor
in the world around us
And happiness gained
though not through quantity
From living a life in the image of another
And changing and changing
With an endless end.