2nd best

Unrequited

Uninvited

To this crazy little thing called love

I'm delighted

Just excited

to have amazing friends & hugs

Still though loneliness be blowing up my phone much to much

Still this car runs minus the busted clutch

Another stray bullet & I'm rushed

To where tuff men's eyes get stuck with dust

Where monster trucks sit useless admiring their rust

I sit high up watching an impending dusk

Wishing, praying, for an "us"

mending my mangled trust

but still though these stitches gush

I sit stitched the fuck up

Craving the next crush

& sipping life slow from a bottomless cup

NO! It's not enough

2nd best is for suckers, saps, & schmucks

This heart is hardened & tuff

Holding out for perfection not lust

HAhHAhaHAHAHhAHA!

I take tea weekly with disgust!

he says give up

He also says ya'll are sitting ducks

quacking out the same obnoxious bluff

NO IT'S NOT ENOUGH!!!

Check the confidence in my strut

Watch the sharp angles when I tut

Wrestling with these emotions that bubble & boil abrupt

Since before I was the boy who became the man pretending to still be a boy bent on battling luck

I was the "WHAT"!

every perfect pothole & rutt

Giving up,

is long gone from my vocabulary

Cuz 2nd best just isn't enough.