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Poem: Ground Control #1

One of my favorite songs

Promises that it's okay

To drift along in space

And feel lost sometimes,

But the feeling of floating

Indefinitely

Sounds awfully stressful

Because for how long do I need to drift

Before someone realizes and reels me home?

And how would they find me,

So far gone,

If I haven't ever mentioned

That I can feel myself slipping away?

And how can I tell them,

If I don't realize

Until I've drifted too far

To reel back in?

j.p

Part of the “Ground Control” series of poems, written while listening to the same song (“Ground Control” by All Time Low) several months apart

Poem: trying

sorry for my mess today.

i’m doing the best i can...

i know it’s hard to help me out

from the pit of my quicksand,

so sorry for my mess today...

i don’t mean to be a pain.

i’m trying to figure this out

on my own without drowning

in the rain. i’m sorry that

you had to see me this way –

is it more than you can stand?

i’m so sorry for my mess today,

but i’m doing the best i can.

j.p // If you’re reading this, I hope that you’re okay

Poem: I didn’t mean to miss you

I didn’t mean to think of you;

I didn’t mean to write –

I didn’t mean to miss you, and

I didn’t mean to cry tonight.

j.p

Poem: About Missing You

I binged on writing again, maybe

Because I may have missed you, or

Maybe because our time together

Was so meaningfully spent that I

Seem to see pieces of you around

My world, like in stores that sell

Your favorite brands, or in songs that

You liked to sing too loudly, carefree,

Or even in between the lines of my own

Poems on lonely days like these.

j.p