LRAE Poetry

These beautiful things in life I’ve come to know You can dress up on a random Wednesday  And play board games with your friends you got to meet on the weekend You can meet someone that makes you so incredibly happy The pain that used to swallow me whole  It still runs with me and still lives in my bones Almost like it’s baked in slow cooked and hard to taste It’s hard to pick out any of the flavors these days I can’t decide if I’m upset or angry I just feel everything all at once But when I look at him and he speaks Everything and everyone that’s ever caused me pain Feels worth having gone through Because I am still alive for this very moment I am so lucky to be here And now all I want to do is be happy I want to see the sun go down everyday I want to act like a kid again and go outside to play I want to hum while I’m folding laundry I want to dance around while I put away dishes I want everyday to be with him, because up until meeting him I didn’t want to be here anymore And ...

  To the pictures you left us with And the memories that collide My brain plays like a reel movie With the tape repeating it’s last film  Over and over and over Until I decide to rewind it Watch it again from the beginning No matter how many times I roll it up again The movie ends To which I never know the ending How I never will know what truly happened to the beautiful woman on the screen With her pink flushed cheeks and bandaids on her knees All of the things we didn’t get to talk about, all the tattoos I didn’t get to see And here it goes again, I can’t stop replaying this scene This will always be my favorite movie -Leah Rae