Recognition

There is something inside
and it's clawing me
trying to escape,
I can feel the wounds
and they bleed
constantly.

You put this thing
in my mind,
in my heart,
and it kills me
one piece at a time,
each and every day.

I can't believe
when I opened the door
that you would barge
into me,
fill me with so many
foreign
and crazy
feelings.

And now
you're gone,
but those feelings
linger,
lightly at times,
heavily every other day,
and I just wish
I could excise,
erase,
perforate,
burn,
and kill,
everything you
ever were to
Me

© Justin Frieberg, All rights reserved

Sitting Here

I sit here
watching you sleep
the restful slumber
of a lover entangled
in dreams.

Smoothing your hair
away from your face,
Knowing that you will
be there when I wake up
sweating from nightmares

You know that I'll
never let your head
hit the bed
without my hand
behind it.

The touch of you
isn't hard to remember
but I like that touch
I know no other
as we dance around the world together

So as I sit here
watching you dream
I wonder, is what I see
what I get?
Or are you my everything?

This has some John Mayer "Your Body is Wonderland" and something from a Garth Brooks song which I don't know the title.

You Just Don't Know

You don't know
how one look
from you
can level me.

You don't know
how beautiful
your smile
is when it peeks
innocently
from behind
sweet lips.

You don't know
how your laugh
is like music
when I couldn't
think of smiling.

You don't know
how my world
cries raindrops
when you're sad
or how the sun
blazes when you're
happy.

You do know
I'll always be there
through any storm
and every sunlit walk
or moonlit
heart to heart.

But my love for you
the extent is something
You just don't know.

© Justin Frieberg, All rights reserved