Joseph Tanner Poems

Looking at boys,
Watching me,
A lie to the naked eye.
When your smile; becomes mine,
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Beautiful people at every turn,
Under the knife they go,
Life in a fickle world.
We all have beauty.
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If I didn’t laugh I’d cry,
If I didn’t smile I’d be lost,
If I wasn’t strong I’d be weak,
If I didn’t let you go I’d never know.
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Today is for living,
Tomorrow is for dying.
Why worry for tomorrow?
When you have today.
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Hiding my identity,
So as not to offend the eye of others,
Not being the way god intended me to be,
But the way society sees fit.
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I feel your eyes baring a hole into my back,
Daggers flying at the speed of lighting.
Frozen to the spot in fear,
Blood rushing with nowhere to go.
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Silence speaks volumes,
Cold air feels the space that’s between us.
When we speak nothing is resolved,
I’m sorry for the air that I breathe,
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When your smile met with a frown,
You say I hate you,
When all you wanted to say was I love you.
It hits you like a hammer upon nail head,
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Looking for a smile behind all of the cracks,
People try too hard to be something they are not,
Lost in themselves,
Set in ways.
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Looking into the mirror,
I’ve become so vain,
I like what’s looking back at me.
I take time on my appearance,
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