Self-Help Book

You’re drowing

In shallow water

The only one who

Can save you is

Yourself.

All you have to do

Is stand up.

I promise you’ll be

Okay.

R.R.

Poet's Madness

I live in a world of

Verses, Stanzas, Meter,

Rhymes, Metaphors,

Paradoxes, Alliteration,

Imagery, Irony, and Symbol

I escape to this palace of literature

I can’t handle real life

I thrive in this kingdom of writing

Sometimes it gets so lonely

Because I won’t let anyone else

Into my secret garden of words

But I don’t know how to

Live any other way

R.R.

Serotonin, Dopamine, Acetylcholine

Put these chemicals

In my blood stream

I’ll even help you find the vein

I need another dose

Happiness, Satisfaction

What are those even?

I vaguely remember them from childhood

I need another dose

Love, Passion, Pleasure

I know plenty about those

I felt them when you took away my childhood

I don’t know if I want another dose

Learning, Memory, Dreaming

I can’t learn anything new

My memory is only filled with nightmares

All of my dreams are dead

I need another dose

I can’t feel these on my own

They’re just chemicals

That I can’t make myself anymore

R.R.

Love Poem

I don’t know how to put

All these feelings into words

You make my brain all fuzzy

My stomach nervous

You’ve made my life

Into every romance movie cliché

What am I supposed to tell you

Without sounding like a fool?

I’m stumbling over words

Trying to find a perfect verse

I’ve tried to write this twice

I hope this will suffice

R.R.

Eye of the Storm

You were my captain

I was you first mate

But when our voyage

Made for sinking ships

I had forgotten how to swim

R.R.

You Say You're Not an Author

Tangle me in your words

Pull me into you with your verses

Recite your stanzas to me

Let me fall asleep to your paragraphs

Read me your favorite stories

Let’s write one together

Have me fall in love with your fiction

You tell me your words make no sense

But you’re a perfect poet to me

R.R.

Vacant

It still hasn’t sunk in

That we’re not together

That you and I are no longer a we

That there is a you without a me

When I wake up, a part of me

Is still expecting you to be there

To tell me good morning,

Hope you slept well

When I go to bed, a part of me

Is still expecting a goodnight honey

For you to whisper sweet dreams

And kiss my forehead

You’ve been gone for quite some time

Enough time for me to find someone new

But I still find myself looking for you

In every crowded room

R.R.