There’s this pain in my heart that just won’t go away

even though I want to speak to you I don’t know what to say
I wish that I could tell you exactly how I feel
wish that you understood that what I feel for you is real
cuz our story has not been terminated
we’re just living our lives separated
it’s hard to understand why we
changed to you and me
but theres things I just want to feel
things I just want to see
I feel like I need to run away and be alone
I feel like I gotta go far away
before I can come back and understand my home
and I’m sorry for leaving and causing you pain
but I’m not sorry for what we did
and all that we gained
because what you are is a beautiful thing
a symphony of colors reverberating
through the endless sky of darkness and grey
you are a rainbow
but I am just a shade
and when you smile
light pours forth from your face
your radiating beauty
paints the world a better place

how to use:

as common as carbon is a poetic stream of consciousness.
there are 3 categories of “poems”:

(i) heteroglossic synesthesia (complete poems)
(ii) hobonyms (words with no homes)
(iii) mind jerky (thoughts to chew on)

after reading a poem you have 3 options to “turn the page”

“RANDOM” – takes you to a random poetic expression
#hastags – take you to another random poem with the same theme or motif
#category – takes you to a random poem in the same category

“no one can step in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and they are not the same person” – possibly Heraclitus

just as no one can step in the same river twice, no one can have the same experience of “as common as carbon” twice