The Nurse Who Loved Me

Nothing can banish the fear I feel

Every time you come too close

But you smell like sex and beer

And that's a scent I've come to know.

I wish that I could show you

What you mean to me

But you wouldn't know it if I tried

'Cause you're too drunk to see.

I would love to kiss you

Just to see how you would taste

But I think the answer is evident now

For your lips are not so chaste.

And I would feel your loving embrace

Around my trembling form

But you almost certainly wouldn't sense me

For your head is raging like a storm.

When exhaustion overwhelms you

I help you to your bed

And help you strip and find a shirt

That doesn't conflict with the red.

You slump onto the silky sheets

And I pull them to your chin

Watching you slip into the world

Where demons live within.

Weary from my efforts

I collapse onto the couch

Thoughts flying through my mind

Words for which I cannot vouch.

The thoughts of you overpower me

But I am too weak to think

And I slip into my own small world

Where in fear I slowly sink.


I thought the world could use another one of my poems. It's surprisingly hard to write a poem that rhymes, if you didn't know. I'm really not pleased with the end, however. It, like...doesn't tie up, or something. I don't know. Maybe you reviewer people might have a few suggestions?

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. The title of this poem is the name of a song...can you guess who sings it? Just a little test...we'll see if anyone knows, shall we?