By Marques Ruiz
Blindly staring at the dust swimming carelessly in the afternoon sunlight peeking through my window, I glumly wonder
Were we really worth it, why’d we ever birth this, was this all a blunder
Time spent out of my wallet out of life being diced with a knife, given all to you, I’m struggling to pay
No hard feelings, I thought we had the real thing, I never imagined you leaving… anyways… I gave you 331 days
47 weeks and some change, I thought our dedication had range, I guess
Now I feel like I’m less, we had love and for what, I was giving my life to invest
I’m free up until that’ll change, my life is rearranged, my side now vacant without you, it all feels strange
I’ve stayed in my lane, I have never played games, and through my entire struggle with or without you, I had never complained
I reminisce, we had a once upon a time walking across a fine line, and you were all mine… before all of this
My hand intertwined with yours, I had opened all the doors, I would always wipe your eyes when they would poor
You were a piece of life I adored, I’d always want more, dreamy like above yet pretty like a dove, I guess you could say I was truly in love
I’ve had the luxury of walking across the stable bridge of love; trust, care, and lust, all lived thoroughly
All lovely things end, but who knew it’d be you and me
Although you left me for the confusion, often viewed now as an optical allusion, my heart is battered with contusions
I’m sitting here thinking you could still be with me, but I’m honestly sick of living in this memory
I guess it’s true when they say time pays, but I’m now a poor man with nothing left today and now I’m a stray, who had went from riches to rags to give you all 331 days
By Marques Ruiz
My worn soles have pounded this pavement just about a thousand times looking for you, you know?
I’d do just about anything for you, and I have a feeling you understand our complex love for one another
The things I see and the demons who visit me just for a while ask about you, calling you Coke and Blow
I hope you and I will be together forever, like old times when it used to be me and you and my brother
The best is when it’s dark and brisk among this concrete jungle, meeting others like me
These others don’t treat you like I do, and I always know where to pick you up when the lights get low
I can’t feel my face and this world and I both know it’s not because the numbing cold in this city
It’s safe to say God has forgotten about me, but the way I’m feeling I know you’ll take me to a Heaven he doesn’t know
In between black seas with awful depressions and paranoia, I should fear nothing knowing you’re the white rock floating me to shore
Landing back on Earth to a violent rumble of the subway with these dull yellow lights blinding me
I want you to take me back, take me higher, and take me some place we’ve never been before
Crawl into the comfortable clear seat of my pipe, and with that we can begin our next journey
The story has not changed, but now my need for you is crucial
I’ve far too gone and too deep in this lonely void, along with the overdue tears in my eyes with my eyes full
These joyous spirits I once got are wearing off, and the black in my lungs continue to show up too
In the mangled thoughts of these dangerous brick corners, I haven’t failed to believe that the God that once loved me gave up on me
But whoever makes the grim challenge to help me, for the love of God please tell me what to do?
By Marques Ruiz.
You possess the highest rank of my heavily dented heart, plagued with broken promises and iced lies
Although it is not your fault, the love I have gathered for you has gone beyond our concentrated eyes
I never imagined then lived something so perfect, yet it occurred between individuals such as me and you
It’s overwhelming to know it’s only the lowest point, but we have a while to figure out what to us is new
You’re truthfully an extraordinary part of life, and yet such a beautiful girl you’ve come to be
The blemishes of life has become a difficulty for you and I know it can be resolved with trust in me
In the nature of fuckery and mishap, I have yet to show you how beautiful things will appear
I have had the luxury of walking across the stable bridge of love; trust, care, and lust, all lived thoroughly
The man I claim to be me, is far from the figure of man I’d like to be, and in fact you need more of me
I have no plan on changing the progress that’s been fought for by the both of us, and it shouldn’t be adjusted
I’ve made a promise forever, physically and emotionally locked in indefinitely which I have no problem with
Through our clustered frustration and continuous vast area of disappointment, we won’t be corrupted
I truthfully love you, I truthfully adore you, and I truthfully believe your overall presence in my life, is an eternal gift
By Marques Ruiz.
Various colors and imaginations that couldn’t be clearer
The image is radiant, the climax is nearer
Far from being stressed nor troubled, in fact a tranquil state
There is no time to be awaken for how deep I’ve fallen, it’s far too late
For it all, it’s going to fade to grey soon
My eyelids are flickering in the dust swimming in the afternoon
Nothing makes sense, and that’s completely fine with me
If this is such a high, then a great high it’ll be
I rather be in here than face the demons of out there
Because in my valley of happiness and care, I can always talk to the man upstairs
I don’t mind all the people I hate and enemies I’ve made
Because in here, anything is capable and I don’t allow sorrow for who is not saved
I regret none of my pleasure, matter of fact nothing at all
The limits here are endless, and the list of euphoric luxuries are quite tall
It seems like I’ll never wake up, and I’m far from worried when I will
I’m way beyond satisfied that this experience was instilled
By Marques Ruiz.
I can see right through you, and I’m brilliant
The way you exist, I cannot stand it
For the way I see right through you, you’re very transparent
Although everything you are, I have yet to understand it
I’ve studied every bit of you, and you’re horridly hideous
Yet the way I see you, I wish you could see all of this
You’ve ruined yourself and it’s astonishingly obvious
I don’t wish you death, even though you’d be hardly missed
I’ve come to a conclusion that I don’t like you very much
I’ve noticed that you’re weaker than most, I wish you luck
You will not make it, along with your other goals and such
Failure is what I call you
Yet, I’ve mastered on how to avoid you too
By Marques Ruiz.
From now to then, too many memories
I think about us, remember us all?
But then, a group we thought we’d always be
I am not sure, it had seemed to all fall
You’ve found a new group, of course I wish well
Some have faded, or have found each other
Or maybe altogether, you’ve all fell
We’ve lost touch, far from sister or brother
It is not our fault, nor not an issue
People change, for good or for the better
Now you don’t know me, don’t say, “I miss you”.
I said people change, nothing’s forever.
Yeah right; no hard feelings, I understand
Don’t expect anything, out of these hands.
By Marques Ruiz.
I can live life through a picture
I can explain my life through a picture
I have a lot of time on my hands, and it’s blatantly obvious
Yet I laugh about not having a life, I don’t have a problem with this
The colors, the texture, the grain
Maybe a shot directly up into the rain
Maybe a close up, expressing pain
I adore the amount of life my camera contains
For so many things I know how to do
Yet I honestly rather sit back, and watch the blur sink through
I sound alone calling a camera my friend
But if I had nobody else, the camera would be there with me to the end
I could care less about anything else, or better yet
Anything ever again