"What's Wrong Pretty Girl?"

What's wrong pretty girl?
What lies beneath those eyes?
Is it a happy soul?
Or a sad one hidden beneath all the lies?

What's wrong pretty girl?
What happened to your heart?
We used to be best friends,
But now you're distant and so far apart.

What's wrong pretty girl?
Why do you over think so much?
Just live your life,
And forget about the little things and such.

What's wrong pretty girl?
I used to know you oh so well.
But now you seem like a different person--
One I can hardly tell.

What's wrong pretty girl?
Why don't you ever feel like enough?
Why do you hide your vulnerability?
Why do you have to seem so tough?

What's wrong pretty girl?
Why can't you love yourself for you?
Why can't you ever be enough?
With all the little things that you do.

What's wrong pretty girl?
How can you love everyone but yourself?
You give a lot of love out--
And yet, your heart stays on a shelf.

What's wrong pretty girl?
You always seem to share your light.
But it disappears at times--
As if you turn to night.

What's wrong pretty girl?
Why don't you get up out your head?
It's time to lay down now,
And head straight back to bed.

LaTasha B. (LB)

© 2015

"If I Only Knew Why..."

What is an hour?

Once time elapses.

What is a tower?

Once it collapses.

What is a heart?

After it's been broken.

What are words?

When they are no longer spoken.

Why do we want things

We don't think we can have?

But when we get them

We no longer want them.

We do we destroy

The things we want to keep?

And sell our souls

For things that we will reap?

Why do we fight for the truth?

When all we really want is a lie.

Why do we stop to say hello?

When it just ends with a goodbye.

Why do we hurt

The ones we love?

Yet, love the ones

Who hurt us?

Why does our heart

Takes us in one direction--

And yet, our mind

Takes us in another?

Why do we change
Our imperfections?

Just to look like

Another.

Why do the wise

Think they're the fools?

And yet, the fools

Think they are wise?

Why do we live in the

Sunset?

Even when the

Sun rise.

LaTasha B. (LB)

© 2015

"Crushed"

Crushed,
Like a bug on the ground.
Crushed,
Oh, how I hate that sound.
Crushed,
As my heart hits the ground.
Crushed,
As I find no one around.

Crushed,
As I find myself all alone.
Crushed,
As my voice cracks on the phone.

Crushed,
As I fall for a landing.
Crushed,
As I find myself no longer standing.
Crushed,
As the world is so demanding.
Crushed,
And the pain is outstanding.

LaTasha B. (LB)

© 2015

"The Forgotten One"

When it's all said,

When it's all done,

I'll still end up being--

The Forgotten One.

LaTasha B. (LB)

© 2015

"Rainy Days of Nostalgia"

I hate rainy days like today--
Where they make me feel sad and nostalgic...

I have to be at work
But I'm sad as hell.
I'm trying to smile
But that's hard as well...

Not all rainy days are like this--
Only some.
It just turns out that today
Happens to be one.

Passing the place--
Where love once belonged.
I look to see if my love is there
But I see no one...

Listening to James Bay "Let It Go"--
When it only makes me sad.
Thinking about you and everything
We would've had.

Sad days like this--
Really makes me feel lonely.
Time to put a fake smile now
So no one will ever know me...

LaTasha B. (LB)
© 2015

"Uninspired"

Uninspired,
Blank--
Just like my thoughts on this page.


Uninspired,
Empty--
I'm frozen on the stage.

Uninspired,
Nothing--
Not a single thought.

Uninspired,
Tired--
Confused and in distraught.

LaTasha B. (LB)
© 2015

"Conformity"

Come on down, line on up--
Join the rest of the lot.
Change your clothes and change your hair,
Into something you're not.

Come on down, line on up--
Stay with the lot.
Let's control your mind and erase your thoughts,
Until you've forgot.

Come on down, line on up--
Don't stray from the lot.
I was going to try and tell you something,
But I forgot.

Come on down, line on up--
Join the conformity lot.
Where being different hurts and it's time to change,
Into something I'm not.

LaTasha B. (LB)
© 2015

"Reality Escapes Her..."

Reality escapes her...

So, she often disappears.

Attempting to run away from--

Everything she fears.

Reality escapes her...

So, she lives in her dreams.

Where she runs from her nightmares--

And hides all her screams.

Reality escapes her...

So, she's often alone.

Running to another place--

In a different time zone.

Reality escapes her...

So, she hides in a fantasy.

Dreaming of a different place--

And who she wants to be.

LaTasha B. (LB)

© 2015

"Swallowed in a Sea of Misery"

Do you know what it's like--
To breathe underwater?
To drown in a misery--
That never really falters?

And do you know what it's like
To drown in a sea--
Swallowed in all of your
Misery?

LaTasha B. (LB)
© 2015

"Holes in My Heart"

I have holes in my heart--
So many empty spots.
It's hard to love them all,
When you're the one they forgot...

It's hard fitting in--
So many different locations.
Every new place,
Seems like a different vocation.

New faces,
New names,
Until time
Erases them all.

Or even worse,
I remember them all.
And time always rushes--
It never stalls.

So many holes in my heart--
And every wound hurts.
She lived a lonely life--
As an endless flirt.

I have holes in my heart--
But that's nothing new.
I couldn't fill it up,
Even if I wanted to.

Trust me, I've tried--
I've even cried.
The pain never ends--
It only subsides.

I have holes in my heart--
Why should I leave it intact?
I'd much rather take it out,
As a matter of fact.

LaTasha B. (LB)
© 2015

"Sensitive"

Sensitive--
Oh, how I used to hate thee...
Sensitive--
Why did this happen to me?
Sensitive--
Always seemed so weak to me.
Sensitive--
I mean just how fragile can one person be?
Sensitive--
Sounds like a soft person to me.
Sensitive--
Oh, how I used to hate thee...
Sensitive--
But without it, who else would I be?

LaTasha B. (LB)
© 2015