Goodnight Moonshine
Keep reading until I can let you go.

Taking responsibility for my life
The actions I take have Consequences
And that’s where the strength is
I don’t want to float anymore
In this lazy river
It’s time I jump in the boat and see what that’s aboat
You will always be so Beautiful to me
This pained muse from the time of uncertainty
For longer than I had hoped
So many questions
Not enough answers
We had broken so many hearts
mainly eachothers

It’s important you know you are worth it
Whatever you’re going through
The pains the memories
I don’t need a response
I’ve blocked and deleted you by now
Because I cannot hold onto this sand on the beach anymore
and call it a castle
I’ve battled too many late nights for my sanity
My broken treasures piecing back together
To find a shell of the man I need to be
I put it to my ear and can hear your laugh
Especially that snort u deny ever having
That smile with the little gap in your teeth
And how you held me in Switzerland one final time
You are magic
But I have to take that back too
these spells need casting across this lake
as I float along
Goodbye comes too soon
when you’re saying Farewell to the moon
But the rays rise over the horizon as it becomes noon
I hate how hard I cry for you
but can’t muster up a tear for my own suffering
disconnect from this truth
Amusing mistakes in my youth
I kept coming back to you for a reason
Forgetting my own needs
I wanted you to see me
How deeply I loved you
I didn’t want you to miss it
times you felt unworthy
I never believed this
my addiction
Hindering me from expressing truly
Getting lost in the wind
I blew Across the lazy river
Fell into a little cottage with a boat
I even have a little moat
Welcoming visitors
But you are not welcome
Not because you’re you
but who I am to you
Who I become around you
Lost little lies formed
to impress distress
dangles dumbfounded
I hope you’re enjoying your dream life
Loving beautifully
What we couldn’t give eachother
Certainty
Security
everything happens for a reason
what would that life ever be
Constantly Questioning
your love for me
I know you’d be a great friend
But these tears have been shed
and these tools need resharpening
There is too much to do on this yard
Cut the grass gardening water the plants.
I don’t want to catch up cause I know how friendly we get
Mixed messages become clear in my mind
Then they cloud this sunshiny day
blocking the rays
becoming over cast
Too many spells spoken
Slipping stupidly
You make me lose trust in myself
Cause how could something so wrong
Still affect me this many years later
I claimed I wouldn’t make the same mistakes again
and I’m not there anymore
when we were together

Do you ever replay these days
that rearrange in our crazed phase
To attack my balanced praise
I believe in myself so deeply
Bountifully
Knowing my path
Then I see you pop into my chat box
The years of awaiting your call
hoping you’d show up at my door again
Drunkenly lost lusting loving
How can I miss someone so broken
Piecing it all together
The puzzles of my memories
Maintaining my cool
to be the role I needed to play
I don’t know if I was ever actually myself those nights
Or if I got used to being this avatar for you
Losing my sense of self along the way
Deep down I know I wish
I could have dim sum with you
Something so sacred and Beautiful in my family
paired with your presence
I have to take this back too
I cannot sit reminscing of times
we tried to get along
Pretending to be friends
Forgetting my needs
to accommodate yours
I did everything I can
to be what you needed
But the look of love lasted
lingering losing learning

About the Creator
Anto Chan
Performance artist in Poetry, Comedy & Storytelling. I produce and MC events in Canada empowering BIPOC artists to break the cycles of trauma through personal expression!
Released my chapbook "Love So Far: Romantic Reflections" in 2020


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