What It's All About

By J.J. Felton

What It's All About is an anthology of poetry and short stories detailing what it's like to go through life. It touches on romance, betrayal, and what it's like to grow up and know that you were meant to be something different.

• Language: English
• Publisher: J.J. Felton
• Release date: May 25, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458095954

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WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT

WRITTEN BY: J.J. FELTON

SMASHWORDS EDITION

COPYRIGHT 2011 J.J.FELTON

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A Slow Death

How is it that you can say you love me;

That you have always loved me?

Throughout all our days and nights

You have never done a single thing

To make me happy,

To bring a smile to my face.

Quite the opposite I am afraid, my love.

You have seemingly gone out of your way

To make my life as miserable as yours.

When I am alone, you bring me joy.

I sit in a room, my thoughts alone to keep me company.

And what wonderful companions they are.

Music in the background

Of undying love.

But in truth, I fear you have none for me.

When I watch a movie

The kiss always makes me smile

And cry with tears of longing.

I wonder why it is that you never see me as such.

Your heart doesn't long for me

Nor does it grow wings so to fly to the heavens above

With you shouting to the people below

The happiness you feel that I am in your life.

When you see me, your heart doesn't race

Pounding out the melody of our song

Which is all I think about every day.

If you truly loved me

As you claim to do

Your heart would ache at a mere thought of my misery;

My tears that I cry would break your heart in half,

And you would curse yourself for being the cause of them.

My love, if you truly felt for me as you say you do

Instead of ignoring me

And everything I wish of you,

You would be striving to make me smile.

Defy heaven and hell

And do the impossible

To stop one tear and bring one smile.

But instead I find myself quite alone

In a world that I planned to share

With a man I begin to realize never existed.

You cannot, or will not

Be the man I had so hoped that you were

And that I know you could be.

So instead you will brood

All through the nights and the days.

I will be left behind

To clean up the mess my life has become,

The broken pieces of my heart,

My love for you,

The dreams that shattered

With everything that I realized

Will never be.

There are so many things

That I wish I could say to you,

Without fear of your sharp bitter tongue;

For it lashes out viciously at me.

It has a meanness that whips me,

Punishes me for a reason

That I must confess that I know not.

I cannot help but wonder why,

Why you say you