Why I do what I do

It's not for attention
It's not for a high
It aint for a smoke
but for what I found in mine eye

Lucky 20

Looking for new eyes tonight
Ones I can see through
The eyes I knew once...

They said yes

Mine said no
No, over and over again
But those eyes...
Snake eyes

Now mine stare at the lights over the valley

Necking a smoke

Wondering how things went from deacon to addict







Acronyms

Kold
the words he never told

It
fire he'd ought not lit

Lashes
upon his gashes

Lives
taken by the knives

Edge
leaning off the ledge

Dead
what's inside my head?

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More
tales to his lore

Yes
Take another guess

Sick
wounds he will  lick

Ever
addiction's so clever

Love
killing the dove

Filthy
bloody boy so guilty

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Fear
of never getting near

Old
habits like mold

Rope
never could cope

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L abel
the boy who isn't able

O ath
could never stop the growth

V essel
red with a mortar and pestle

E nd
why is there no end?

1 year ago today

There is a disconnect when the past year is thought about.

You'd be able to see it better if you read the cursive on my skin.

Instead I'll remain the cynical young man staring down at the reds and blacks from the nosebleeds.

Now more of my soul lives outside the country than inside of it.

People I wish I'd never met...

If just to spare me this moment...

Alone outside in the sunset of my first year as an absolute failure.

It took me exactly one year to reach junkie status

I graduated exactly year ago
I always wondered how long it would take
Cold shower after Cold shower

...

For me to break

...

So go on,
If I die...
Send me to hell

...

I've already been here a year

...

Minus those few sweet moments I haven't


The song that makes my gut drop every time

When you're out
Tell your lucky one
To know that you'll leave
But you don't lock when you're fleeing
I'd like not hear keys
Only hold till your coffee warms
But don't hurry and speed
One a time put a tongue
In your ear on the beach
And you clutched kicking heels

Yours Truly,
Joshua Weston Hil