Point blank, We give up too easy. We don't try hard enough. We want everything to be smooth sailing. When in reality it is going to be more like a roller coaster. The easy route is not always the best route. If you say you love someone, and you truly mean it, Why not put forth a little effort to keep them?
Effort
Something is
missing
I can’t quite put
my finger on it
It seems to be too
fast for the touch
Too small for the
eye
And I have been
racking my brain trying to figure this out
We both lack effort
Our life is in a
standstill
Brakes glued to the
floor
No reverse, no
drive
Until we can
understand the others intentions
Too many
interventions
And we lost our
grips, fingertips slipped
And our love
started falling away from each other
Not sure if it will
ever recover
Critical condition
Tubes of doubt
shoved into our bodies
And we exhale slow
short breaths
Can’t seem to
regain that rhythm in our chest
It used to be
simultaneous
And now we’re
blaming us
A joint effort of
destruction
So full of
assumption
Was this really all
for nothing
Do we give up or
try
Rebirth or die
Do we put our
seatbelt on and sit back for the ride
What is it gonna
take
Relive our mistake
Or embrace our
shortcomings
We are supposed to
forgive and forget
But it seems we’re
stuck on replay
Rewinding the
string that started the unraveling in the first place
All these years,
now considered and endangered species
One thread out of
place produces the biggest consequence
Abandoning ship
Too many waves and now
we’re sea sick
No life jackets
We’d rather drown
alone
Than fight the
storm together
Always pursuing the
worst when we can do so much better
If we try
But somebody’s got
to make the first move
It shouldn’t
require flipping a coin
Heads or tails
shouldn’t determine whose love is true
There’s got to be
more evidence, more proof
That this love is
worth a fighting chance
We need to both be
in a fighting stance
Because we just
can’t drop the ball over lack of effort
Let our arms give
out
Feeling like we are
in the test of time
And we didn’t even
study
Didn’t even glance
at the notes
And now we’re
straddling the fence in an all she wrote situation
Like what’s the use
of praying if we’re not willing to put in the work
Give the other what
they deserve
Too concerned about
the water under the bridge, we don’t want to cross it
So we can’t focus
on the bigger picture
Blurred by one
incident
Not scared to fail,
but scared to succeed
A different kind of
feeling you never felt
So unreachable in
your mind that you sabotage yourself
Already wrote each
other off
Now who’s left to
help
So why don’t we
pick up these pieces side by side
One conversation at
a time
And start reliving
our lives
All it takes is a
little effort
Nakesha Graves
