Hello friends...

My brother was so much more than the title of this blog. To clarify, it was a title I planned to own for a book of my own one day. When I shared it with him, he swore he would steal it from me for his next album. I figured we could share the title together in this blog.

Please feel free to share anything you can about Johnny- stories, pictures, videos, love letters scribbled on napkins, etc. :) I would love to have this be a collective collaboration from Johnny's loved ones, and anyone who knew him knows he had more loved ones than most anyone ever is blessed to find. He touched hearts in a way that very few can.

Saturday, June 6, 2015

Bleeding Out

My chest is filling up too quick
my lungs are too tight
my heart is sick
the blood I lost brought on no drought
it’s seeping still
I’m bleeding out


I keep every word you never said
in a bag tucked away
at the head of my bed
I seep into your world of pain
the dark night of the soul cries out
we are not swans
no lies, just love
what is all this leaving about?


And you all now look the other way
you never promised you would stay
(no one ever does, for me
I’m not “the one who got away”)
and death has such a fragile way
of reconnecting lost hearts
and you think, well that’s a start
but it always seems to dissipate
within a short few days


And letting you be
just a mere memory
is letting go of time
and love and hate
we correlate
to strong for us to rhyme


They mean the same
like guilt and blame
we forever will remain
you stole so many beating hearts
the best now gone forever
one less, to share our name.

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