By Crystal cwilkinson_85@hotmail.com
Date: 11 September 1999

Jawbreaker

 It seems I always start my poetry,
with the words "I Love YOu ".
I guess because it's true.
You are all I'll ever need.
I could live on your love for the rest of my life.
I can't only live on you saying it though.

I need your arms around me,
showing me it's real.
That it is as exactly as you say.

It's like that line in Jawbreaker,
that says something similiar to this,
"Even the sweetest candy,
can have the sourest taste inside."

You were everything to me,
You are everything to me.
But the emotions you  put me through,
it makes you so hard to taste.
Yet, I still, manage to swallow all the lies, anger, and disrespect
you push down my throat.

Why?  Why am I not stong enough?
Why am I not stong enough to spit the bitter taste of you out,
when I know you are choking me to my death,
and the the smile once on my face,
has turned into a disgusting look?

With my eyes squenched tightly,
my face draws up, and I seem to just be able to handle it,
and I swallow.

I can't blaim you,
you offered me the candy,
and I like a child took it,
yet it was not from a stranger.