I wanted you to learn that whatever you could do was enough

That any time you needed my love to compensate, there would always be enough

And every day I look at the damage my love pours out

And every day it pours but never all the way out

Hiding from pain

Hiding from that fact that a stupid mistake changed everything

Hide from me so I will have no choice but to hide from you

Without ever excepting me to know what to do

You wrecked a good thing

What can I say?

Everything I ever did was to keep you from going away

But you would have none of it

You quit on us too easy

I quit on us too hard

.. ..

Day in and day out

I look at the life I lost and the dreams you stole

But it’s fine

My life will go this way and yours that

It sucked that’s all you wanted

because it would have been all we ever wanted.

.. ..

And now that you’re a wreck you’ll go places with guys that were meant for us and I can’t deal with that because you should have been mine and you never were.

.. ..

Today ‘s the day we make the news

To give or take whatever we choose

To keep or lose based on you

Today’s the day we have to choose

.. ..

Circumstances based in love were never meant for tears

If we chose to work it out then I’ll give you all my years

It is not right to live your life deeply rutted in fear

But you have to choose to win or lose based on what that is

Most people wake up normal

I've got ten hours of sleep but I still feel at quarrel

What does it take to make me feel rested?

Sleep has failed me

What a wasted investment

I am wearing thin

Physical, emotional.  Incessant

Relaxation's ultimatum

I must feel your love's provocation

I am constantly stricken with attacks from cowards

This nation has become a people who display power

  Because they feel as though if they do not, they will seem as though they are weak

I believe they are wrong.

I believe they are fools.

Contrary to native belief this nation wasn't built by deviant deserters

  It was fortified.  by fortitude

Not with trash talk or intimidation

  Designed to oppose threats of terrorization

And being as such is, I believe everyone who lashes out in anger is craven

  That everyone who thinks strength is something you can argue is wrong

For strength is not in numbers or even in suffrage.

  Strength is in communion and a steadfast courage.

                                                                                                             -Jeff J

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Destination

I used to be concerned with existential doubts

What's the point?  What's life even about?

I was pensive about my life and where I might go

How I would make it, particularly alone.

I've always known where I would go when I died

But no one will tell me what to do while alive

With you it's exhilarating

And I don't want to know

Just say you'll be with me and I won't care where we go