Poem By Timothy Carson

Can't Function or think straight

Its as if my everyday routine is in a total disarray

I never knew I'd feel this way

Always Heard It sung about in songs

Wouldn't think I'd find myself so far gone

At, first I tried to deny it

Then I wanted to fight it

Always told myself that romance was for the birds

Helplessly, I found myself falling for that four letter word.

The first time you uttered you were in love,

I found myself high like I was drunk from a buzz

you promised me forever,

that you and I would be a "we" and "us"

Had me thinking that I was more than enough

if I only knew of the damage that would ensue

I wouldn't be sitting around dazed and confused

you were successful in making me the fool

Why did you have to utter that four-letter word?

I'm trying to understand what was true

It's as if you don't know how to play by love's rules

Told me you never really loved me,

Only gave me a ring to appease me,

Yet, you come around to sporadically lay-up with me

Emotionally mistreating me

Yet, I keep telling myself that you still need me

you look me straight in the eye

Saying that there still is a chance for you and I

Image my dismay

When I found out that day

that some trick is carrying your seed

The Very seed you promised to me

you promised her my forever

that you'd shield her from the rainy weather

and now you belong to her,

and she to you

but what about me?

I'm told that I'm jaded

my picturesque life faded

I'm losing myself

My Hearts distress

I'm a total mess

To all lovers be warned

choosing to play with the heart is tragic, and in the end,

you'll endure the wrath of Love's Damage.