greyaugustuspoetry

[greyaugustuspoetry]

Im glad I got home when I did

Cause I started to think about when I was a kid

And all the things that happened

How I couldn’t control it

And I can’t control anything now

And what if they hadn’t died

Or that teacher was nicer to me

If I hadn’t said that one thing to that one person

And maybe

Just maybe I could’ve…

Stop.

-Grey Augustus

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[greyaugustuspoetry]

It’s 40 degrees and I’m not even cold

Sitting in my car until my legs go numb

My hand in yours will always keep me warm

It’s like a nuclear reactor

And your smile is the torch

-Grey Augustus

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[greyaugustuspoetry]

When the hounds return to their beds

And when the street lights turn on to light your head

I will still be in my car

Sitting in a parking lot, waiting for the dead

To come collect me and my thoughts of lead

Because at the end of the day

I am still tormented by the voices I can’t keep at bay

They will never stop speaking, no matter what I say

So instead of listening to my own mind

I will take the time to end today

With precious dreams that will walk me to the morning

-Grey Augustus

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[greyaugustuspoetry]

Tired.

At least that’s what I felt.

If that’s what you call

The feeling of stones

Weighing down your eyes

And pounds of pressure

Settling into your skin

- Grey Augustus

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[greyaugustuspoetry]

I want to scream.

But my vocal cords are unmovable

The ebb and flow of the air around me

Has kept me silent for the time being

For the air holds the wait of my grief.

And my grief weighs more than the earth itself.

-Grey Augustus

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[greyaugustuspoetry]

Dead on impact

At least that’s what your

Brother said when I asked.

I had pain on impact

Of the news you were

Gone.

Brain dead on impact

You felt nothing

At all.

Numb on impact.

I stopped moving

And so did the rest of them.

It was an impact

When you passed away.

I’m sorry that you couldn’t stay.

-Grey Augustus

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[greyaugustuspoetry]

I want to call you.

Catch up a bit.

I need you.

I miss you.

But,

You can’t.

Pick up the phone

With hands

Of mist.

-Grey Augustus

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[greyaugustuspoetry]

I sent you a message

I know you can’t even read it

But I still sent it.

I think your mom reads them now.

But I still check my phone to see if

You answered back.

But you can’t.

Not anymore.

Because you’re dead

-Grey Augustus

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[greyaugustuspoetry]

I think I relate to that song now.

The one you said was too sad for us

To live by.

Because you’re gone now

And reality is setting in.

The lyrics hurt a little more

Than when we were in different

States of life.

Once it was just a song

But now it’s music for my soul.

-Grey Augustus

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[greyaugustuspoetry]

I can’t explain it

But it festers inside of me

Eating me up with every passing car

And song that plays along

I miss my old life

Everything I see and hear

Reminds me of when I could still drink a beer

Laughing along with people who

Didn’t know the real me

But I really needed them today

To distract me from the hole

Festering away

-Grey Augustus

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[greyaugustuspoetry]

getting out of treatment /rehab and living life on a different timeline than you used to:

I love you but

We are on different time frames

I’m bettering myself

And you’re still on the move

Living a life that I found cruel

It’s okay if it works for you

But to me it was torture

I’ll never drink again

And you’ll keep being normal

You feel so far away now

That I do understand

Because now I’m in a meeting

While you get to play pretend.

-Grey Augustus

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[greyaugustuspoetry]

And I screamed at the bodies in the stars

To come back to me on this uneasy ground

In exchange for my own soul and tears

And a few of my half drunken beers

But they wouldn’t do that to me in any universe

My friends would never trade their places

For my stance on this world

No matter how much I cry and groan

And god,

Does that make me angry in every pit of my body

But it also comforts me to know

That even in death, their kindness grows

-Grey Augustus

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[greyaugustuspoetry]

You were everything.

Your smile lit up the sky

And your laugh brightened the moon

You hung the stars in my sky for a point in time

But now you’re nothing.

Gone to the abyss we call death

This place is dark without you

I can’t even see the floor.

Come back,

please.

I can’t do this

Not anymore.

-Grey Augustus

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[greyaugustuspoetry]

I used to be afraid of ghosts

I’d sleep with the lights on

Pray to god to keep them out

And keep all my limbs under the sheets

But then you died

And now I’m hoping

That this house is haunted

So that I can feel you in my bones

Just for one last time

-Grey Augustus

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[greyaugustuspoetry]

I wish I saved your number

And all of our texts

I wish I took more photos of us

So then I couldn’t forget

I wish I had called you

The night before you died

But I didn’t do any of this

So how will I survive?

-Grey Augustus

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[greyaugustuspoetry]

A friend of mine died last night in a car accident. I don’t know what to do anymore.

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[greyaugustuspoetry]

And when you picture my face,

make sure I have a smile on.

Laughing about something we conjured up together,

while you grin in solidarity.

This is so that when you remember me,

it is not when I hurt you and left you out to dry.

Frame my existence with joy,

so that maybe we can be together again.

-Grey Augustus

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