Cut and Dry
You are so
Cut and Dry
Getting right to the center of it all in a 140 character or less
Just like a Twitter message
i look at you and see
My future padded cell buddy because
Only completely insane people can be honest like we can
i look at you and see Macy, Angie, India, and Eryka
and then i realize they were aspiring to be you
You
so complex yet simple
I understand you completely
in the sense that you will always confuse me
You are like a puzzle where i know the end picture,
but not how the pieces fit
And you know this

We can share laugh. after laugh, after laugh
at you
at me
at your life
at my life
Our life
Because
it's only with you and me together do we realize how funny all this bullshit really is
It's onlywith you and me do we realize how fake other people are because we're so real
i need you
Im the type pf person who jumps across a canyon, barely making it with my life
while you cry laughing as you point out the bridge
you humble me
Your the type of perosn who gets so caught up in the details
And i help teach you sometimes its just about the basics

All im trying to
Say is that
However many times i attempt to define you you
Laugh in my face because you are the
Essence of ambiguity and
You cant be
Because nothing we ever do
you ever do
i ever do
is ever that
Cut and Dry

It's been twom months since i met you and you
have become the most important person in my life
i dont know how it happened but you
got me caught up, twisted, and thirsty
like a homeless child in a candy store
and whats more

I love every second of it
Everytime i hold you
see you
hear you
kiss you
Feel you i smile
You make Me Happy
I don't know how us two dysfunctional random pieces fit together
but we do like we were made for each other

You Scare The Hell Out Of Me
The feelings i have for you
with you
Give me no choice but to be drawn to you
like steel to a magnet
I am trapped in your cold iron box and i love it
You dont complete me you make me better
And i love you
I love you so much that looking at you
is like a portal to Utopia
Where all my pains melt away
and the only thing left to do is to get lost in those deep brown pools and drown happily because
I am so thirsty
You are such a bad influence with your criminal ways
how you broke and entered, dispite my security walls
walked past all my defenses and stole my heart
And i can't even sue because somehow, Miracously
It has your name on it
You are Amazing
with your ability to captivate me with a laugh
a look
or simply by breathing
And on top of it all your beautiful
with the lips of an angel
and the smile of creation and i know

... i dont deserve you
But its okay because i am Committed
to becoming the best me i can
Just to make you happy
I will hold you until we become connected and conjoined like siamese twins
will kiss you until your lips have memorized the contours of mine
and will love you until Webster updates the dictionary with a word for what we have
but for now
i love you will have to do

You Blast-Burned your way into my heart like a Charizard
And i didn't have a potion handy to keep me from
fainting, head over heels in love
I hadnt learned protect yet
and i didnt have a Squirtle handy, to Watergun some since into me
So my feelings for you just grew like a Snorlax's belly
And the concept of leaving you became so Farfetch'd

Looking at you gives me Amnesia
your Glare leaves me Paralyzed waiting for your nex move
Your Sweet Kisses got me confused like Psyduck
and im caught under your spell like Drowzee
I love you
I know that i am just a boy among me vying for your love, but
"I Wanna Be The Very Best"
for you
I will Brick Break the Barriers that stop us from Uniting
and anyone against us is just Shellos
You Captivate me, raising my ability to appreciate things, like the Morning Sun
or a Beautifly or Butterfree
A Smeargle tried to paint you, but failed to Mimic
the smooth contours of your face into the delicate harmony
that is your beauty
I look at others but they can't Substitute for you
Together we are fierce like Nidoking and Nidoqueen
As evenly matched as Pulsie and Minun
When i am sick you are my Nurse Joy
and i will forever follow you like Brock
We will continue to evolve like Evee into ever more complex forms
BUT
the one thing that remains constant in our sparatic pokemon love
Is that we are together
like Ash and Pikachu

When I first came to Chicago on October 14, 2007 i...
Didn't know what to expect
See im from charlotte, NC, which thinks its a big city,
and i swear our motto is "Were better than Raliegh"
But even with our aspirations of being a large city
we still had the close personal relationships that come with the territory of living down the street from a cow named bessie
And then Chicago
I went from backyards to postage stamps
From trees to condos
From grass to pavement
And those weird graystone houses were just...
Wierd
Even our bums were cleaner in charlotte
I HATED Chicago
My first week in chicago i went to Navy Pier
I saw this big greyhound busload of kids
They looked nice
They looked friendly
They looked like people i could get along with
And i made my first Chicagoan friends,
And i thought, maybe, this wouldnt be so bad
3 hours later it was time for them to go
I ask "Where are ya going?"
They say "Back home....
to Charlotte, NC"
.... It was a tour bus

The reason i came to Chicago in the first place was actually my mother.
My childhood was filled with extension cords, lamps, irons, belts, the cat...
see in my mothers hands anything could become a lethal weapon
And it was funny, cuz i never learned how to duck
I wore the same, confused "aren't you my mother?" expression from age 2-15
Finally, when im 16 DSS decides to "Rescue Me" and put me in foster care, which caused my paternal grandparents to decide to grow a conscious and allow me to slave for them
But
they just wanted their perfect ideal of a grandson,
Not the Semi-perfect, MaJorly flawed me they got so
they sent me to Chicago to live with my dad
And maybe...
that's the real reason i didnt like chicago
Because i waited....

.... and waited
.... and waited

For 3 days, 4 hrs, and 28 minutes at the airport and he
never showed up
MYSPACE SAVED MY LIFE
on my entire friendslist
i had 1 friend in chicago
who wasnt even on my top, and he let me live with him
but, even though 9 people lived in that house


... I had never felt so alone in my life
and i HATED it
i hated the gnawing, gaping hole in my broken heart
i hated the rivers that carved my cheeks into canyons
I HATED how i wasnt worth ANYTHING to him

So..
I changed

i became someone wiser
someone friendlier
someone nicer, stronger, better
Someone who didn't have this Wall Of Pain, separating him from the rest of the world
And i became popular
And i Made Friends
and my heart started to heal and i began to feel
That Maybe
Chicago wasnt the worst thing in my life
And i started to feel the rhythm in the broken pavement
Shattered Glass
and Dingy streets
I started to see the Beauty in the graffitti
I became lost in this sea of people and the kaliedoscope of culture and i began to lose my identity...


.... or maybe i found it
See i became Mexican,
I became white
I became Black, asian, greek
I became someone who saw that everybody has something to share
That there were people with pain greater than mine, and my heart healed through them, and i found my happiness with them
i was home
and as the Tribune replace the Observer
and as 55 degrees became shortsleeves weather
I look around an realize
Chicago taught me to find the happiness
in myself