I used to write so beautifully
I used to let it flow
My heart would sing, my mind again
My feelings would let go
The tides of thought came crashing
And swallowed my emotion
I believed I was a poet
I gave my hearts devotion
Though now begins a newer day
I'll write a newer way
The old is long forsaken
And thus begins a newer age
I've forsaken quality
Forsaken something deep
With something shallow, something less
This is what’s become of me
I once could write such miracles
Never opening my mind
The words would flow, from head to hand
I'd be proud to call them mine
People change and rearrange
The feelings that they hold
Youthful feelings, bloom on grounds
That used to house the old
Failure has but bloomed today
Emotion never shines
Instead from head, to hand, again
Words shall linger in my mind
These are what I couldn't write
I'm sorry if I tried
The grounds of lesser feelings
Lay where the richest used to thrive
I'm sorry for a newer day
I didn't ask my life to change
If I could have outlined my destiny
I'd shadow out what I became
Maybe when I rest my head
I'll bring you something fresh
What a poets life, would understand
A piece one would expect
That day looks quite so far away
And while I've failed my friends
I've failed the ones that read my thoughts
I've failed you yet again
I've gone in search of something more
Something I could use
Maybe, someday, we'll meet again
When I realize the truth
Every time I speak my mind
I've nothing more to tell
These rants and rhymes, they are not mine
I'm only fooling myself
Say goodbye to roses
Say goodbye, my dear sunshine
Say hello to blacker bushes
To grow a vine around my mind
Say goodbye to yesterday
I guess some times we do mature
Say goodbye to true emotion
Say hello to lesser words
So I'm sitting in my emptiness
I couldn't tell you where
Just wondering what I could write
Knowing I really wouldn't care
Sitting in the moonlight
Fumbling my pen
Another heartless poem
I've failed you yet again
 
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