To love like a ghost

by Jaired A. Burton Smokeyday - Aries

I smile for you when you can’t 
I pick you up when you can’t get up
I provide for you when nobody else can
I listen when all they do is talk
And I talk when you need support
Now maybe I get down to things
But if no one does who will?
I make ends meet 
I starve myself 
So you can have something to eat 
I give you my last cigarettes 
When you have none
I risked my own life
So you wouldn’t pick up a gun
I did time 
To keep you out of a cage of animals
I went to the zoo
Just so you wouldn’t have to 
I gave
When you had nothing 
I never took
When you had something
I spoiled you 
To show you what you can accomplish someday
I planted a seed inside you 
So you don’t have to pray
I took on a gang 
Because they hurt you 
I felt no pain in the hospital
But rage for the reason why it all happened
And I got rid of them
So you could be safe
I gave you love without saying it 
I even put myself up for hell
Just to see you do well 
I hide myself from you 
Because the bad fallows me wherever I go
And I know that it’s worth it
Because to me it feels good
I am always there 
When you don’t know it
I just am
Because I must be a psycho in love 
Because I have no limit to the things I do 
To protect you
And yeah
Remand sucks
At least it’s only jail and not prison
And these words 
You will never hear or see or know from me 
Because you see me as a psycho
And I can only laugh
That’s just me
And you will never know 
And I won't even say...

Reason for writing:

    Your name is safe with me. And you won’t know I wrote this for you, because you really don’t know who this is for, and that’s how it should always be. A secret to the grave    

Birth sign: Aries
Date created: 2005-01-14 06:12:28
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:46:45
Poem ID: 70480

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