reign [black]
It's been raining for days
Reigning for years
Watch the collapsing ashes
Forgotten cigarettes
Between rested digits
Tumble with us
Smashing into your denim eyes
Leave a trail of fingerprints
Streaks that don't belong
In a world of plastic castles
Iron gates to hide
From them
From themselves
Between sheets of satin and lace
Crying blood thick sobs
To change the day
Watcher
Keeper
I saw you watching
Smiling all the same
You won't believe them
With a shaking head, a knotted brow
Defiant
Of evidence before dead eyes
"The jury finds the defendant not
guilty on all counts. Freedom,
secure in lies, shouts from young
Jeremys belly. A sly smile tells
the jury they were wrong, and murder
now walks free. Welcome to justice
American style. The dollar buys
your freedom and the power brings
you home. What a rush. I can't
wait to kill again, I've got enough
cash in the bank for a couple
more kills. What a rush!"
The bullet was wrong you know
It didn't have the right to kill you
Doesn't matter now
Your breath has faded
Your eyes are glass
Now you can watch them too
When [reverbs]
My lips say I love you
Do the words pierce your skin?
A needle leading true
Does the thought reverbate?
Forcing its way inside
Incessant, repetitious
"It drives her mad to know
that I need her. That I don't
just want her in my life, in
my eyes, but that I need her.
I need her to be all that I am.
She doesn't even realize that
the revelation destroys me,
that it kills to need.
Self-serving, she thinks this is
about her, not us. She sees
her importance as a clutching
breath, but it's freedom hiding
under the veil."
Preach to the choir
They heed your song
With baritone clarity
Moving you forward
The beat of words unspoken
Tapping the cortex again
I'm damaged goods
A ship without a sail
The sea glides me to its open faces
My arms won't fight the current
They lost the will when you lost my words
When I tell you that you matter
Taste the breath beneath my sigh
Hiding in haste can bring you fear
Crawl through your indecisions
Hear my voice and feel my eyes
When I throw the shame aside
When the pain rides my spine
When I tell you that I love you
push.
lips part
words pass
she wouldn't hear me
I was here
waiting
faster than arrival
you pushed sideways
another concrete remedy
wall without a voice
push harder
"I watched her walk by unknowing.
Head tilted ramshod to combat the breeze,
she won't see as I do.
Just another blind set of eyes.
She won't understand.
A to B to C. Simple."
not really
simplicity lies with complication
forgotten ease of tooth and nail
push harder
let's see what you really hold
put your weight behind your words
yesterday is dead
tomorrow is a sunrise without a face
shed blood and tears for today
today lives
of the moment, we ride
slap shift pushing the red line
[push harder]
I enjoy the push love brings
the acceleration
of heart, of mind
I miss tomorrow
she promises new light
package delayed by life
never arriving
chances are taken in the shadows
I can taste it
someone needs to push me
[push harder]
I enjoy the compression
you enjoy the show I bring
push
cosmosis
As I lay in this patch of tall grass
gazing into the star-filled sky,
summer sweats into early autumn
with an almost frosty gust of wind
that tickles the tiny blades
playfully against my bare feet.
I am lost in wonderment
at the ever changing portrait above,
just as I have been for countless nights
before. The feel of the soft earth
underneath my splayed form cannot be
replicated by any man-made bed.
This is home, the most relaxing way
to lose myself in learning
well into the small hours.
The harvest moon shifts
ever so elegantly higher
with millions of shining possibilities
encompassing all my eyes can receive,
and the occasional wisp of light grey cloud
passes cautiously as not to disturb
this unmatched wonder.
The cosmos above is quite the chameleon,
but never changing enough to flaw
the perfect complexion it possesses.
Occasional stars plummet from their seat
and comets scream slowly across,
destination unknown,
and I just lay back content to learn
from unfolding artwork before me.
she smiles
She smiles, a pained half-attempt at a real grin,
it fools most who see it. The mask she wears
is growing thin, and confusion now shines through.
The theatre of pain that resides as fire
in her belly, fueling her every moment,
is flickering and beginning to lose its heat.
Its replacement moves swiftly [wind swept],
without pain or abandon. Quelling the broken smile
without effort, bringing the hue of love
into her darkened core. She rages against it,
but it suffocates her darkness leaving her spent
and weak from inner struggles long forgotten.
Comforting, the soft white grows to fill her
with hope, with love, and shes terrified.
This is new, not the way things are supposed to be,
but right all the same. It is the reality
of every dream, every endless vision
of what she wanted. Bright now, very real,
the core shines and she smiles.
