Double Daily Dose of Poetry

A lot of Nerve:

Sharp feel the heavy weight that you bear up on your shoulders
Are you half the man that you felt you'd be when you grew up?
Most time these days I feel the frustration of not living a life filled

I guess I'm angry for most of the decisions I've made
Most days I am shaking my hands and hanging my head
This isn't what I wish I was doing with my life after school

I'm used up goods and know that I'm jaded for my remaining years
Afraid to pursue what I want and make those bigger leaps
Takes a lot of nerves to want to speak my mind in written words

I blame you who never will be named again for these halts
I can't make a move forward without choking on fresh air
When I stop to think of how I feel split in two

To be self aware that it's all in my head
There's nothing I can do to break free of my noose
Losing sleep because I feel like I'm not worth the time

What I want is not important when the world is so far gone
That I'm just another stone in someone's life
Trip over me and keep moving on, I feel so blue

Changing over every moment for sadness or anger
I try my best to not drag any of you down with me
Filled with angst like I fall back into my youth

You have a lot of nerve to write these words for everyone to see
You have a lot of nerve to hope that things will change
You have a lot of nerve to want anything from life



Her poem:

When you smile my heart my beat out of my chest
She says I must be patient to see what happens to the rest
I'm feeling it disappear slowly, don't you?

Is it so bad if I feel this way and don't want it to end?
I'm scared that I'm easily replaced right around the bend
You have to know I have more stock in this

I never anticipated you to happen at this point in life
There's a war going on in my mind filled with strife
I'm not so sure what I could do to change things

There's no cure for when I feel your finger tips on my arm
Swear all time slows when those sensations tend to disarm
My nerves will never cease to be strung out

Catching a smile after each kiss, thinking that I'm important
That now my mind is running endlessly rampant
When you're up close I don't want you to fall away

And I wish you'd just stay for even one night
We could talk it out and I could use my might
To stop biting my tongue and share what I want to say

You're someone I don't want to regret and fade away
Moving on and saying the time we spent was astray
But I always tend to make things worse, I still do

I just hope you'd just call and I could say what's on my mind
To break free of this day to day mental barrier grind
Just say that I am worth your time