This Girl Makes Me Feel Like Putty

I wrote this in May of 2009 and I JUST found it so I wanted to post it =] I think it's one of my better poems. Here it goes...


This girl makes me feel like putty
Like playdough in the hands of a third grader
Like "someone please tell me why I'm acting this way"
But it's okay.
Go ahead.
She can shift me,
Split me,
Tear me up and mold me in two
'Cause I'd rather spend my time morphing into forms only she can create
Instead of cloning myself like the rest.
Our society is in denial.
We've barely gone an inch when we need to move miles
Dial up God and tell him we're vile
'Cause the people our kids are looking up to
Are the same ones our parents told us never to become.
So break me in pieces and throw me in the ocean
So I can change with the tide
And when the moon pulls I want you to push
Because you're the only one who can save me.
Bathe me in your tears so I can grow as a part of you
And apart from them.
Melt me with your breathe on my neck like the sun does,
Like time does,
Like your heartbeat singing me to sleep on the nights the sheep just won't do
And the stars are too tired to shine.
Cover me in the blankets of your body
And sheild me from this world,
Cause girl,
I'm too small to be heard
And too weak to be on my own
But you build me up and hold my hands
And I'm looking both ways before crossing the street.
I swear the concrete cracks beneath my feet every time I take a step forward
But I'm not slowing down,
This town can't cage me in because the faster I move
The faster I get to you and the faster I get to you
The stronger I feel.
Seal up the body bag that holds in my ghost
And the skeletons I kept in the corner of my closet have gone away
As if to say they approve and can move onto the grave.
I come in every color so you'll never get bored.
And you can mix me together like a painter
And I'll paint you a sunrise
'Cause everyone knows that when the sun sets it's forced to say goodbye
And 'm not setting on you so don't say goodbye yet.
In the morning I'll rise with the sun
And cover your face with yellow warmth
And I promise you won't get burned...