Understand - Poem

Understand - Poem
Jensen "Jey" Bodholdt

He doesn't understand.
I'm not happy in my own skin.
He doesn't understand.
I hide my pain behind strange men.

He doesn't understand.
They don't want to be my friends anymore.
He doesn't understand.
I'm beaten down, fucked up, and poor.

He doesn't understand.
This bottle is my friend.
He doesn't understand.
I just want the pain to end.

He doesn't understand.
I've lost all reasons to live.
He doesn't understand.
I am too broken to love him.

He doesn't understand.
Why I'm always feeling down.
He doesn't understand.
Why I can't just stick around.

He doesn't understand.
He will never understand.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

I don't understand.
Why wasn't she happy?
I don't understand.
Didn't she know she could trust me?

I don't understand.
I still care about her.
I don't understand.
What happened to forever?

I don't understand.
She wouldn't stop drinking.
I don't understand.
She wouldn't stop cutting.

I don't understand.
We can never be together.
I don't understand.
I know in my heart I still love her.

I don't understand.
I'm sitting here staring at her grave.
I don't understand.
Why couldn't she have been saved?

I don't understand.
I will never understand.

L - Poem by Jey Bodholdt

He had a hard life. No-good parents. 

In and out of foster homes. 

In the bad crowd. 

At a young age, 

he learned that he could only trust himself. 

He lost a lot. 

Now he's struggling. 

Trying to put his life together, 

but nothing's going the way he wants. 

His only friend is the half-empty bottle in his hand. 

He's a broken soul. 

But he is beautiful. 

He hates when people are treated wrong,

because he knows. 

He understands what it's like. 

On the outside, you know that he's been through it. 

His demeanor says it all. 

But when you take a look at the lyrics written in his heart and soul, 

you find the pure beauty of who he is, 

and you wonder, how to put him into a song. 

2015

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