What Keeps Me Alive
What keeps me alive?
Besides the caffeine
And the solid knowledge
That you’re ripping
My heart out—
Magic-ing your love away.
You can take her—
All pretty petiteness—
Everything your friends love,
Everything you think you need.
Leave me—
Solitary,
The way you found me—
What keeps me alive now?
The caffeine,
Or the disdain in your eyes?
Leave me—
The way you found me—
Hurt,
Beaten,
Lovesick—
The way you found me.
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
Walt Whitman, American Poet (1819-1892)
| Title | Comments | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| Title | Comments | Submitted |
| No One Can Understand | 2 | 07/16/2009 |
| Reckless Behavior | 2 | 06/17/2009 |
| I Smile for You | 4 | 07/06/2009 |
| I Remember the Days | 1 | 05/29/2009 |
| To Be a Muse | 1 | 05/29/2009 |
| There's No Beauty in the Breakdown | 3 | 05/29/2009 |
| Celtic Background Music | 1 | 05/29/2009 |
| You Told Me It Would Be This Way | 2 | 05/29/2009 |
| Untitled | 1 | 05/29/2009 |
| What Keeps Me Alive | 0 | 05/29/2009 |
| Confused, With My Head Ducked in Laughter | 1 | 05/29/2009 |
| In That Instant | 0 | 05/29/2009 |
| Tattered Perfection | 2 | 05/29/2009 |
| Criticism | 1 | 05/29/2009 |
| Good Ol' Life Experience | 0 | 05/29/2009 |
| Confusion | 1 | 05/29/2009 |
| Words | 1 | 05/29/2009 |
| Standing | 0 | 06/05/2009 |
| Untitled | 1 | 06/05/2009 |
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