Lying Through My Teeth
I’m not a princess. This ain’t a fairytale.
Because your crystal ball ain’t so crystal clear.
Beginning to think that I’m wasting time.
It’s your turn to take a seat we’re settling the final score.
We were both young when I first saw you.
Would have given you all of my heart,
Knock down walls for you.
You act like you never had love,
I’ve had enough of that little boy sandbox stuff.
This heart will start a riot in me.
I couldn’t make you love me.
I’m giving you more than fair warning,
So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time.
Things wouldn’t be so confused and I wouldn’t feel so used.
I keep waiting for you but you never come.
You’re gonna wish these days hadn’t gone by.
You know what’s been on my mind.
See somehow I can’t forget you.
Trapped in the past for too long,
I’m movin’ on.
January 2009
No commentary today. I can’t even believe what I just said myself.
Treading Water
I don’t ever want to feel like I did that day.
There are many things that I would like to say to you,
But I don’t know how.
So I try my best and pray to God.
I don’t know what they want from me.
Well if they’d free me from this prison,
All that I can say is that I’m here now.
Man I ain’t changed, but I know I ain’t the same. May 2008
Appropriate introduction, I believe, for someone who isn’t completely sure how she got to where she is now, but she’s sure as hell that she isn’t going back! Yet, for some reason actions are repeated, mistakes remade.
The thoughts running through your head with the insistence that they be said. Too little, too late? Or a kick in the ass right when it’s needed most? I promise you then that my ass is perpetually bruised. NO! It’s going to be different this time, but it never really is, is it? A year later you are no better off than you were in the previous. Rinse and repeat.
I’m going to be 27 three months from today. In 6 weeks it will be just over 9 years since I accepted a marriage proposal, and 7 years since my supposed wedding date. In 5 months it will be 6 years since the end of the relationship. And in one year and three months I was supposed to be finished having my children. All four of them.
Where I’m at today registers more cottonmouth than the usual word vomit. Not quite single, but guarded. Not quite happy with my job, but looking. Not quite skinny, but exercising. The path from there to here as been nothing of a straight line, for life can be just as redundant as the previous phrase. Right now I’m just trying to keep my head above water.
