Dereck Gibbs

You send me left
You go right
God I’m so confused
My trust abused
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I love you
Oh god knows I do
This feeling you put me through
Euphoria long overdue
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The words I speak
Rarely ever the ones I want to say
Living in my mind day to day
Afraid to speak cause im weak
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If I told you
For this moment in time
You owned my mind
How would you feel?
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My protector
My deliverer
The reason I live
The cause I die for
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In a glasshouse
Stepping lightly
To avoid a complete travesty
A Tainting of this sanctuary
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Sweet words tease my ears
So sweet so loving
Its like a sugar rush
Rushing to love
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Staring at this book
Seeing letters make war
Grammatical beings massacred
I can’t make sense of it
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Drifting listlessly
On a flow of dreams
I lie on my back
Staring at the sapphire blue sky
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I pick up the phone
And it’s Russian roulette
The fear...the excitement.
The suspense is intoxicating.
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Me tears become orphans
The dark slowly claiming my own
The dew slips slowly down my face
The wetness kisses my lips
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I must have her
I cannot be denied
An irresistible siren
She whispers my name.
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Drifting aimlessly
Unpredictable shifting direction
Caressed by randomness
Sometimes I lose myself
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Nonchalant composure
Carefree words
A scythe, that’s his tongue
Decapitating your pride
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I examine it…this mirror
Smoke obscuring my vision
I can’t see it…my reflection
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A pretender
An imitation
An offender
Title? Rule bender
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Fingers so geriatric
Now isn’t the time to panic
Stretched out with life
My hands are just a blur
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A magnetic pull
Like the positive to my negative
An irresistible attraction
Like moth to a flame
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Sitting mournfully right here
Here on this bank of desolation
Regretting my oaths that bound me
Promises lacking consideration
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Bleeding profusely
An ignorant statue
You watch the blood flow
You’re lost to my hurt
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