The Forever Formula

Stay in touch, stay involved,
respect and keep your space.
Reach out, but not too deep,
be near, yet know your place.
Stay attentive and responsive,
stay forgiving and kind.
Remember, and cherish
Let out of sight, never be out of mind.
Be aware, be sound,
be available, be around.
Need togetherness, need isolation,
but desire love and not separation.
Hold your grudges if they're all you have left,
otherwise, hold what's really important,
the friendships you safely kept.
Be mindful, be alert,
of theirs and mostly your worth.
be knowing of the love you deserve,
be knowing of change and swerve.
if God forbid, you lose all heart,
I pray you claw back to the beginning
to the very start,
and you begin anew keeping in mind,
that whats past is to be left behind.
I pray you look only ahead,
at the friendships you wish to make and amend,
The secret is to never give up,
on either yourself or them.
We're all only human,
unaware of the effect we leave,
we're interdependent
whether we'd like or not to believe.
The challenge is to stay,
and never walk away.
The challenge is to hold on tight,
when they grow distant, and dark as the night.
The challenge is to find the light.
The real deal begins, when the end draws near,
that's when you begin to reiterate,
you're always gonna be here.
And leave it that that,
leave them with the surety of your open arms.
For when they realize it,
they'll know where lies the answers to their qualms
Do your part, do whatever it takes to keep them near,
let them know that they matter, that they are dear.
While it may all seem like too much effort on your part.
think of it this way, you're only looking out for your heart.
The heart wants what it wants, and no amount of taming will suffice,
Risk it if it means there's a chance it'll survive.
The trick is to always believe
that no real friend is ever meant to leave.

World

Find someone who frustrates you to the point of insanity,
to the extent that you will be forced to be the best version of yourself.
Someone who challenges your every move and decision,
and questions your every self proclaimed theory.
Someone who'll look at you with scrutinizing eyes,
that are soft and comforting,
yet sharp and merciless.
Someone who can sit across from you and allow you to cry it out
and tell you "once those tears are out, I never want to see them back for the same reason, we clear?"
Find someone who moves you,
you heart, your soul, your mind.
And someone who keeps you in line.
Find someone who doesn't waste your time,
but makes every moment worth it,
someone with whom all wars are a battle of wits.
Someone with whom by the cool grass and under a sparkling sky, you will sit.
Find someone who'll hurt you back when you lose your cool,
find someone who is a lovesick fool.

Someone to make you feel like you've been living a lie, 

that all this time, you've been wrong to think that the earth revolved around you
No.
The world never revolved around you.
If the world should revolve around anyone,
if Your world should revolve anyone,
it should be him.
He is bitter and cold,
yet he leaves a beautiful taste on your lips,
warm and whole
he's truthful, and wild
but he tells white lies like a child
He is rain when your heart's drenched in pain
but he will fill your heart
leaving you with the kind of fragrance the rain leaves when it hits the dry summers earth
He will show you your worth.
He will surround you
with his words and deeds first,
and then with a hug.
and he'll probably, about it, be quite smug.
And you'll feel it, in your heart, you'll feel that tug
because, by God! If he's anything
he is thorough with love
and in love.
and he'll love you with all his might
All this time, you've been wrong to think that the earth revolved around you
No.
The world never revolved around you.
the world stood there, with a smile so charming
and passion in his eyes that shone when they met yours.
the world, was simply waiting for you to say the word
Be my world. 

Unwritable

You have become words
that paper can no longer handle.
You burn through the parchment
leaving your mark, irreversible, dark.
Paper isn't where you belong anymore,
even paper knows so.
You are words that escape me.
You write yourself in my mind
and disappear just the same,
you are cunning, playing your game.
You were never meant for paper,
paper was too ordinary for you.
You were meant to be proclaimed,
told to the people of the world,
you were to be boasted about,
to every boy and girl.
You love, are poetry that can never stay still.
You are words written inside me,
written against my will.
Sleep eludes me at night,
but you don't.
You love, are poetry that can never stay still.
words of you, my dreams, they fill
but you have officially turned
Unwritable. 

Sigh.

Suddenly she wasn't sure
whether the truth brought her out of misery
or only pushed her in some more
for now it hurt more than it ever did before
now it was real, and turned every healed wound, sore
Now it completely tore
open a heart that had been too bold to show
how much it had invested
how much it had to know
Maybe it was destined
maybe it had to come out someday
maybe she should have seen it coming
Maybe it was her price to pay
for trusting yet another with her heart all the way
For yet again, she'd let it stay
in the hands of someone
who treated it the same way
as all the others ever did
with care only for their own need
She accepted the words with bravery and grace
and walked away in need of space
She walked on over to her hiding place
but let not a tear stain her face
She was broken inside and falling apart
but she can't remember a time,
when she felt pieced together
it had been this way from the start
she laid down on the cool ground
staring at the stars
wondering if lying bastards lived on mars
She'd happily migrate
if it meant she'd have a better fate
the world was getting too cliché
she no longer wanted to even try
and it was no longer even worth a cry
she could lay there all night
until sleep overtook
and dream of a man she'd read today in a book

Lessons To Learn

What we had was gold
What we shared was bold
But I should have seen it coming
Should have known we'd grow old
Just like in the stories told
Then, all it took was one look, and I was sold
Now I'm left reminiscing
What we had was gold

What we became was indestructible
It seemed that way at least
Now we're broken and scattered
Still looking for our final peace
Our hearts were exchanged on lease
Tomorrow though, I'll come return your keys

We had tangled well,
Never knowing where one began
and the other ended
Now we're trying to undo the moments
We spat out words so distasteful
Words we otherwise never intended
Words, that tangled between our lips
Like our limbs beneath the sheets

We made love, had fun
But now we're too apart to ever be one
We're stuck in an oblivious state
Where Always is a promise we question
And love is hidden behind a wall of hate
We studied each other well
And now learned our lessons
But you will always be the class I'd take
For you, I will put it all at stake

72 hours ago, you were it
You were the final piece
You were lover, my friend, a minx, a tease
Now your lips hone a desperate "please"
Asking me to walk away,
Like it's something I'll do with ease
We loved. It was real
I don't think that kind of thing is erasable
But we loved. Past tense.
And now there's no sitting on a fence
You've gone your own way
And I'm on the other side

In the past I have cried
But I've learned and learned some more
Everyone eventually walks out that door
We are but just human devices
To be used to love and care
And then to move on, that love to share
Although, elsewhere.
I will cherish all the need you felt for me
And all the need I felt for you
But I will never forgive, for as long as I live
The lie you stood by
That my forever was you.

Remain

The least I can do is remember you
after all the pain you went through
and all the love you were a stranger to
and all the smiles that never faced you
and all the laughter that missed to wipe away the blue
the blue that filled you
The least I can do is tell the world your story
about how you did good
but shied away from glory
And even though you faded away
from everything tangible, night and day
your memory hangs on to my heart
forever there to stay
The least I can do
is remember you today
and remind the world of your name
I believe nothings been the same,
since the day that call came
And even though I fall into routine
time and again,
nothing erases that 'empty' pain,
when I walk by your house
and see us there,
sitting at your porch
with not a world's care.
The least I can do is remember you,
and all the stupid things you'd say and do.
These moments of nostalgia are all I have
and all I can give to you.
I won't let your memory fade, dear friend
the least I can do, is always remember you.

Fool

I have memorized your face
I know every little blemish and every clear space
your eyes talk to me more often than your tongue
your heart's calm, while mines high strung
I know it when you've day dreamed at night
I can see it in your smile
I know it when you've woken up from a fight,
or out of fright
and when you dread the thought of daylight
I can see all too clear
when the brown of your eyes
turn lighter in surprise
or when they lose their life,
as you battle the strife.
I could study them
and know every tell
I could be the only one
to know you this well.
but you, you will remain oblivious
or rather, you will choose to
And you will lose many a heart
if you continue on this path.
But I'll never hold it against you
as long as you follow your heart.
Nevertheless I wish you Love alone
because Love is the only blessing that'll
never let you wander in company that's your own
And there is nothing more I'd want for you
than to always be surrounded by company that's true
I may not be the one you choose
but I will not let you be the one I lose.
Who are we fooling
when we're both oblivious fools.