Author: Cassandra Stevenson
Poetry
To be okay
I wish for you to be okay
But I know I can’t make you okay.
Nothing can make it okay…
Only time.
My Romeo
My Romeo
Forget the world
Let’s run off
Just you and me.
Nothing else do we need.
Scarlet letter no more
I’m free.
Follow me
Let’s live happily ever after
With one another.
Bonnie and Clyde.
I’m here
Ride or die
Yet we shall live
Our journey traveling.
No more sadness
Only love and joy.
I don’t want anything else
Just you.
No, seriously
You misunderstood
Underestimated me.
You couldn’t truly see
My insane need and want for you
Oh so everlasting and deep.
Let’s continue on
Love will provide
Faith will guide.
Romeo, please
Let’s run off
Just you and me.
Emotion
We need emotion.
Not what we can pick and choose,
But all of them.
Not everything can be good times
And happiness.
We need to get lost
So that we can be found.
We need to be in the dark
So we can find the light.
We have to get our heart broken
To know we were loved.
We gotta bleed
To know we are alive.
We gotta live
To know we can die.
We gotta feel pain
So that we can know
What it’s like to feel okay.
We need to make mistakes
In order to grow.
We need to fall
So we can learn to get up.
We need to love
So we can conquer hate.
We need to feel
So we can know we are human.
That is why we need emotion.
While You've Been
While you’ve been smiling
I’ve been dying.
While you’ve been laughing
I’ve been crying.
While you’ve been kissing her
I’ve remained alone.
While you’ve been talking with her
I’ve been drowning in silence.
While you’ve been dreaming
I’ve been thinking of you.
While you’ve been happy
I’ve been writing stupid poems
And wishing death upon myself
Because I see no light at the end of the tunnel.