Angst Chasing Poems

I want to cry. I long to smile. 
Some feeling to wash over me for a while. 
Scrolling, relentlessly with my thumb. 
Every other part...

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Walking through the streets of downtown, I find there’s something—Or someone,
following my steps
like a nagging fly, always around the corner, just out of reach
Can’t seem...

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SCARED AND CRYING
RUNNING PROUDER
BLUBBER LOUDER
WHEN YOU THINK DYING
  YOUR KEEPERS ARE GONE
  NOW YOUR LEFT ON YOUR OWN
PERHAPS YOUR MISHAPS
ARE CAUSED BY THE...

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Chasing disaster 
Run to the fire
Entombing passion
Killing desires
Walking in darkness
Trek through the mire
Taking the low road
Resting by fires
Dismissing the rumors
Acknowledged 
Revised
Betrayed too often
Severed the ties
Wolves...

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Lured by the glamor, she chases a dream
and exchanges home for a life more extreme.
For, tolerated by society,
high-priced call girls project propriety.

Easily enticed by the...

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Rushing through each day, as if I had not a care,
head long toward the sun screaming, "catch me if you dare."
Dripping drabs of liquid sunshine...

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Fragile hearts need time to heal
from an emotional fall.
For fragmented feelings feel
like you've no feelings at all.

Pining for forgotten times,
you neglect your broken heart.
And as...

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Memories, once they're stirred,
are often bittersweet.
For lovers, break their word,
playing games of deceit.

Although your heart's in pain,
fate forces you to smile.
But pretense is in vain,
and...

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I miss you like the desert
misses distant drops of rain.
For from the moment you left,
all I ever felt was pain.

I'm sorry that I've hurt you,
you...

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On this 3rd day
	of 2011
I sit and wait
	hoping to see you
no matter how briefly.

What a horrible day
	you've had,
and you're week
	is shaping up
to be another long,
	tiring...

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