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Colin Makgill Jun 2015
I don't want you to like me
But I need you to like me
That's just who I am
Don't have a plan

I'm trying to live free
Just so pleasantly
But I can barely stand on my two feet
When you're not standing there with me

I'm stopping this rushing water, slowing it down
I don't give a dam about you
But I built this dam around you

To save you
I'd be brave for you
But I really wonder who can say the same
Who can stay sane

Who can be as insane as you really are
Who can walk clueless into the dark
I'm just floating through,
An every now and then
I bump into you again

You dent me
You lend me your heart
You bend me
You tear me apart
But that's alright
I'll stay up all night
To set things right
See the greater sites
And realise
How small everything is
How numbing everything is

And so I float through the void
Keeping to my own noise
There's people playing coy
And the girls interested in other boys

Then I bump into you
You're grumpy for a while
You thump me but
Then you smile
All through one of the longest miles

Remembering what we've been through before
Remembering what I've been fighting for
Trapped behind this shut door
There's so much more

We'll get through
And might later find something new
I get you
That just something that you do

I'm afraid to be happy
Afraid that your not right for me
Afraid that you would live so happily
If I wasn't were I wanted to be

With you
We'd live through
Seeing me lose
I would give you
Everything

I wont make a move
Do what you want to do
You can be anything you
You choose to

Building houses again
Working up till half past ten
With my oldest friends
I hope this never ends

But wonder when
Wondering if then
I will be free
Wandering again
Happily me
Colin Makgill Jun 2015
This haunted house is all that I can see
All that I can be with
These things can't stay
Hauling out things to give away
At this yard sale today
Where the clouds are a darkened grey

These oldest things
That I've collected over time
These treasured things
That are no longer mine

You see something you like
Its old and rusty but it just might
Be alright if you treat it right
The breaks are broken but the chain seem tight
Not much to look at but it'll take you to the sites
This old bike will put up a fight
This old bike might make things a little brighter
Might help you see the light

Chin up, you grumpy soul
Ride down this bumpy road
Turn that frown into a better tone
You're on your own and you know
Your all alone but now you've grown

Things aren't as bad as they seem
Kings aren't glad when you dream
Wings are better when they're clean
Things you had been which you didn't mean

Push on these pedals
Go a little faster
Hit these daisy petals
These cuts and scrapes that you need to plaster

Cycle up the hill
When will you reach what your looking for
Why cant you get your fill
When you don't know what your looking for
There is so much to adore
Let your goal spread to so much more
Put the bike back down on the floor
And you might find each other behind this shut door

Waiting up all night for the day to arrive
Trying to set things right trying to survive.
These birds are bouncing
The bees in their hive
The dogs are chasing
The rabbits till they hide
Got to be alive
Try stay alive

Hauling out things to give away
At this yard sale today
He sees something he likes
Its old and rusty but it just might
Be alright if he treats it right
But with you,
These sky's are blue
Colin Makgill Jun 2015
I've never been so far away from home before
I've never been so far from everything I own
I've never been so far from everything I've known before
I've never been so far alone

I've never seen who we are alone before
I've never seen what we do when we're overthrown
I've never seen how far I can grow before
I've never been no one I know

At this place I see everything
In a different light with a different face
In this race I try to be everything
Travelling light I keep up the pace

Running away
Careless of what people say
I cannot stay
Fearless of the darkened day
I found my way
Yet I'm clueless whether things will be okay
Through the darkened grey
What's ahead maybe darker

Got to be smarter
Got to go farther into the dark
Got to see further into the dark
Got to show that you'd rather make a mark

Getting so far
not leaving the start
Letting you come apart
We cannot see who you are

We cannot choose who you are
We cannot lose, your not going far
It isn't news that your heart is breaking
Your heart is taken apart

You hear shots that are shaking this house
We are lost making this house
Clear rot shaping this house
Cant stop them taking this house

Its time to create
Make something that's not the same
Its mine that is fake
Take something that's not full of pain

Wait for something that's not in the rain
Wait for something that's not from your brain
Make something that's not insane
Take something that's not in your name

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