This Is The First Time

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I feel so cold and numb

These perscription drugs are killing me

And I gotta go home, to be blamed agian

I've been lead to believe that by what I did

I caused her death, but I was just a kid

Now everything is spinning in place

And I'm beginning to come alive



And just cause I can't swim

Doesn't mean I've never been in, over my head

Is a place I've been one too many times

Everytime for all the wrong reasons

(But not this time)

Now it's beginning to make sense

(For the first time)

For the first time, I can feel



I'm running so late for this

A diagnoses is all that's left to hear

Now you laugh, and I'm so taken back by that

The point is, you make me feel so safe

I no longer wanna run or try to escape

Now everything is spinning in place

And I'm beginning to come alive



And just cause I can't swim

Doesn't mean I've never been in, over my head

Is a place I've been one too many times

Everytime for all the wrong reasons

(But not this time)

Now it's beginning to make sense

(For the first time)

For the fist time, I can feel



I wanna let it all out for you (and I scream)

And I'm gonna figure this all out too (this time)

Is the first time I've cried in so long



This is the first time

I've ever cried in someone's arms

This is the first time

I can ever remember feeling this strong

This is the first time I've cried in so long

And not been told, "It's wrong"



And just cause I can't swim

Doesn't mean I've never been in

(I've never been in this deep)

Over my head, is the place I'm falling in

And this time for all the right reasons

(For the first time)

It's beginning to make sense

(For the first time)

For the first time, I feel I can love














Author's Notes/Comments: 

This is slightly auto-biographical.  I saw the movie Garden State, and this is how it made me feel. Garden State is by far my new favorite movie, it's my life in an hour and a half.

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Hilarie Williams's picture

And just cause I can't swim
Doesn't mean I've never been in, over my head
Is a place I've been one too many times
Everytime for all the wrong reasons

so true. you critiqued my poem, i abso lutely love yours. thansk for sharing it. keep up the writting.