Spelling Purpose

I am a writer
I write about love and pain
i know them intimately

and I wish i could tell you that yearning to love someone
is like trying to catch your next breath
but you'd be left with nothing but reality
i tell myself you'd act gallantly and openly embrace your fate
but my mind took away my heart's ability to debate years ago
but if you're out there staring at the window
waiting on the innuendo of love from someone
who's experienced nothing more
than a lust induced crescendo...i apologize

I forgot in my rise to happiness
that dormant pain can still heal 
can still offer comfort to those who don't understand why it hurts
that those who are engulfed in heartache
can still feel a sense of escape
if they hear me say the possibility exists
because they understand
I didn't experience the pain of a kiss for nothing
life is my gift...living is my power
and providing clarity in the lives of the heartbroken is why I exist

i am a writer
i write about love and pain.
i know them intimately

and i used to think life could never be defined by words
hypocritically absurd...I know

crazy

- RiP