Josh Mac Poet Free verse

Paragon

Poem 1

I'm sick of trying to apologize and
sick of trying to make things better when all I do is
make things worse
and I'm
sicksicksick
but it's still the only medicine and it still 
gets me high
so I'll keep vomiting up excuses
to talk to you
andandand there's always something more
It
Never
Ends
Which is just what I said to you before

Poem 2

Maybe you did think of me that day
February 7 2011
maybe you thought of me and maybe
you smiled as 
you turned to him and accepted an embrace

Poem 4

What would you say if you read all this?
you probably wouldn't like it much
and i don't blame you
maybe i should just get rid of it
but
you wouldn't like that much either
because once you told me
poetry is part of the soul
but you erased part of my soul
once too

Poem 5

how could your paradigm shift so much as to throw

me

all the way off? maybe
				I
just tripped and fell or maybe someone else bumped into it and knocked
										me
off and your hand was too busy in his to help me back up

Poem 6

'ladies all this time i thought you wanted me to be like you you don't want me to be like
you now you'll sing for me' said the man who's no longer interesting
and you were always afraid of that
that i was just like you but
really i just liked you
but it's funny how now we
are both the same
i'm sad
you're sad
or maybe you're happy now but you probably don't care much
since i'm not interesting either
any more

Poem 7

What a pair we were when
we were both pro and antagonists
to each other
advancing our story
and creating conflict
and then you wrote me out of 
it all
(still in the editing process)
but that's okay i can still
write about you you can still
be the heroin(e) in my tragedy

Poem 9

"if" is such a pretty word it changes
all the woulds and shoulds
to cans and wills and makes our
whys becauses and changes the whole reason behind things.
i can
sit and write if then would you even though i should but you won't because you can't but i
will if you think we could.

Poem 10

three's a crowd and you never
liked those much but when
you're
all

alone

one of 
us
could still hear you whisper and it's a shame
because i always heard you scream

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Josh Mac July 12, 2011 at 12:03 AM Yes. I expect(ed) most people to be confused. It was... Highly stream-of-conscious and also very dependent on certain events, but I still felt/hoped that there would be enough... That everyone could potentially appreciate, I suppose?

Doris Culverhouse July 11, 2011 at 11:48 PM Josh....I could not help but read this even though I got a bit confused. It has a I have been here before feel to it. take care my friend.

Carol Sunshine Brown July 6, 2011 at 6:09 AM I am enjoying reading the very diverse poetry here this morning in my Soupland. Words pouring onto paper from poets souls. What a joy to be able to sit and read such wonderful poetry for awhile today. Have a very good day Josh. Love, Carol