Love Poem: Glory Days
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Glory Days

Waited patiently for you
Hold up, I think this is true…
Feeling like I’m losing my pride
Something in me, again, has died

Going crazy, so back track to our good times…rusting like ancient dimes
I spent my days in a sugar-coated gaze while committing selfish crimes 

Step up to the ceiling of your rebellious, envious limitations
Let your egotistical conceit fade away along with your doubts
Face your fears with all your might with brave-like sensations
Lost myself in the current of confusion as I heard your shouts

I felt your words beneath me, trust me already
It rose me up so good, too good to be real…
I heard your sighs and complaints of plenty
Just lift your head above the surface as hopeful sunsets reveal 

Incredible intimacy illuminated my soul of isolation
I tried to explain the reason I couldn’t go on without you
Unstable and under pressure, churning in desolation
I cried streams of lament for your sake, an act I can’t undo 

Hesitantly, my heart thumps in solitude's city of corruptible lies
Unfortunately, I must desert this stagnant dilemma and your late replies
You ghosted me, yeah, so don’t deny it…
That really hurt my feelings I must admit
Your love can’t replace anxiety that kills me slowly
Your love can’t determine my fate and future, you see?

Hope you know I won’t be treated like your house elf anymore
Watch me fixatedly as I make my way towards the front door
Your love was poisonous pollution to my lungs and cancer to my body
Death and life collide into me like the shadows of the night, devouring positivity

I saved some of your voice messages on my phone 
Or was it all in my mind of unforgotten memories?
I don’t remember, so just leave me alone…I sadly moan…
It doesn’t seem right – the way you treated me, far from at ease

Nothing can mend me…I’m the loner label, oh, the loner label
Forgiveness remains regret and a so-called friend so unreliable
Our love was only found in fables, neglected on an unstable table
You were valuable until you hurt me, making me somewhat irritable

Back track to the past
That skips away so fast
Time ticks tremendously, but you cared about me unlike most men and women
Hurry up already and please… please make me simply smile like you did back then
You brought radiant light into my life
Until you made company with strife

Misunderstood,
But it’s all good
It’s not like it matters to anyone in particular
Will this near future of ours be a forever blur? 
Turn things around, you hopeless hound
Constant stress spins me round and round
You put me on a thousand hardships
I miss the passion touching of our lips

Take a dip into what I treasure 
In the past, in the past when it was easy to endure
The guilt trips that tried to weigh us way down
No need to frown, for we wear the glory days' crown

That was when we were cheerful, joyous individuals
Without a care…without worries that play us the fools

Waited patiently for you…
A long-suffering so true