Sorrow

Talk about regrets.
Lips to a cigarette.

Bottle to the lips.
Temporary fixes on the way to being permanent.

Fellowship of all the scarred kids whose no two shoes were perfect.

Rejects finding a family to respect.

All too aware of the suffering and death.

When life is a sidewalk where nothing quite fits.

Where gnarled roots of past up shoot from the depths.

Your abandoned family home found slightly to your left.

When the swaying winds add to the dismay in your chest.

Trees that share those memories you regret.

In a realm where there's no such things as steps.

Relived again like it was just the other night.

Dry autumn leaves go great with self-deceit.

Remember flaming anger and then the drowning grief.
The triumphs and the drowning self-defeat.

The broken-backed mother and the dad that chose to leave.

My first love that never loved me.

When you can either numb your heart or let it bleed.

We set ourselves apart but some parts never leave.

The moon chases the sun on the playground of the milky-ways leaves.

You are not alone in being conceived.

It's reaching the ending and realizing you never left.
The kids who yearned for the last breathe.
Watching us all grow up into addicts.

This adolescence claimed more souls than I can fathom.
Knew growing up sucked before we had even grown up.

Out of body acid trips and playing in the mud.

Staying up all night to see the sun.

Lost a lot but learned a lot of love.

Poets are born in the roaring flames dust.
We're all looking for perfection we don't know of.

You can't know what you haven’t touched.

Us damaged kids love but we don't love us.

Alchemy turns stainless steel to rust.
Drinking doing DXM on the dock.

The kid in me is still swimming at that spot.

When I thought I knew it all.

Now I don't know a lot.

Faulty teacher taking student's spot.

Long way to go but a long way I got.

Finding solace in the melting pot of thought.