write what you know

"Write what you know"
So I dived into love
Not even keeping my head above
The waters rushing all around
The way they cut off all my sound
And silenced what I thought I knew
The only thing they left was you
Stranded, I was so alone
Without my paper, pencil, home
the scratching of the quill was gone
As was the ever pleasant song
And so I grabbed a hand above
Who pulled me out,
away from love
And left me high and dry ashore,
Crying, sighing, wanting more
So next I, museless, walked the sea
And tried to find my quill, to reach
Out for the pen that knew my hand
Better than that decent man
But when I saw that merman there
Pen in hand, knots in his hair,
I reached out to the thing I knew
The only thing I knew was you
And now I live, consumed by fate
Surrounded by these things I hate
But by my own accursed hand,
I live somewhere below the land
Waiting on the love I knew
That should, that had
to become true
And not an apparition of the pen in hand on slate
For that was all my drowning was,
and not a thing of fate

battle scars

I'm moving on
I'm giving up
You've made me strong
You've made me tough
The soft skin that would bleed right through
Has leathered up because of you
Now I'm immuned to all I see
You've brought me up
And made me free
These callouses are far from mars
They're proof of all my battle scars
A broken heart, much like all else
Mends stronger than its former self
And that's exactly how I see
The battle that was you and me
So please forgive my anger now,
The only way that I know how
To steady every breath at night,
Not crying out, to stand and fight
The sadness does not go way
Raw, it stays another day
Until the salts begin to mend
And make it scab and make it fend
For itself and all else that call
And all who cannot stand, who fall
I lend my toughened arm to you
The way I wanted you to do