And I know I've been closing myself off, unsure
I know I've been real hard to reach, harder to love
And I know it's tiring, this **** is getting old
But please, just hold on to me
I've slayed these demons, they're old to me
Recurring dreams, this is happening
Tearing my seams; lucid reality
And I just want you to feel love (love!)
Before it disappears (not!)
'Cause we are more than we're not (wrong!)
So never fear to feel (brave!)
Good when everything's wrong (love!)
And find some beauty there (not!)
'Cause all we ever are is brave (brave!)
And your world's not ending, ooh
So I won't go
I'm still living in the middle of a one-way war
I can't fight it but I'm trying to be what you want, yeah
You can't sing but you're singing this anyway
And anyway, so please just hold on to me
This is no end, we're not finished here
Finding our way, we're just changing
Becoming more than I think of me, yeah
These fears in my head, dreams in my bed
They won't get the best of me, yeah
'Cause I chase dreams 'til the end
These nightmares all bend
Silver linings are all I need
So, please, just hold on to me
I've slayed these demons, they're old to me
Recurring dreams, this is happening
Tearing my seams from reality
And I just want you to feel love
Before it disappears
'Cause we are more than we're not
So never fear to feel
Good when everything's wrong (love!)
And find some beauty there (not!)
'Cause all we ever are is brave
Nov 20, 2018
Nov 20, 2018 at 4:15 AM UTC
I LIKE TO SAY YOUR NAME
I like to say
your name
when you're
not here
turn you
into sound
conjure you out of
thin air
so that you appear
before me
dressed in sound
only
memory sketching in
the rest of you
as if sound
was just an outline
and love
colours you in
adding the voice last
so I can hear you say.
"Hello you..!"
and there you are
as present
as present
can be.
I like to say
your name
when you're
not there.
Nov 7, 2018
Nov 7, 2018 at 6:07 AM UTC
Is it safe to go out today?
I need to go, I have bills to pay.
Scared to venture out alone,
Scared to leave my son at home.
Is it safe to wander here?
These streets are filled with hate and fear.
This is the time to be aware,
that gunmen and danger lurk everywhere.
SUDDENLY, A terrible sound!
and I feel my boy drop to the ground.
I pick him up and cradle him,
as his little world begins to dim.
A stray bullet struck him in his head,
and now my only child is dead.
So in that street we both now lay,
because I decided to go out today.
Nov 5, 2018
Nov 5, 2018 at 9:07 AM UTC
Love Lost
All those times we laughed together,
All those happy moments together.
All the secrets that we shared,
All the burdens that we bared.
All the friends that came and went,
All those flowers that you sent.
All these things we shared together,
All of them are lost forever.
The way you’d gently kiss my nose,
The love I felt from a single rose.
The kindness I received in your embrace,
The times you knew to give me space.
The way you looked into my heart,
The way you loved me from the start.
All this love died along with you,
And now my soul is dying too.
Nov 5, 2018
Nov 5, 2018 at 8:58 AM UTC
The darkness falls
All around.
No whisper heard
They make no sound.
Consuming light
Before their eyes.
Choking life
Illumination dies.
Spreading through their veins
Eating at their flesh.
Darkness is inside them
Awaiting certain death.
Nothing can be seen
Nothing can be heard.
All that can be felt
Is the cold dying earth.
The evil is among us all
Draining all our strength
It wont allow survival
Our lives have shortened length.
The darkness has fallen
Evil has won
We cannot be proud
Of what we have done.
Nov 3, 2018
Nov 3, 2018 at 4:59 PM UTC
Coldness consumes him,
Freezing his heart.
Poison runs through him,
Stealing his life.
He has been kissed,
Kissed by death.
She feels no mercy,
She has no soul.
She hungers for life,
It’s hers to take.
Death is a woman,
With no emotion.
She feels nothing,
For the men she kisses.
Nov 3, 2018
Nov 3, 2018 at 12:49 AM UTC
I look beyond my tears
and see that you are gone
I wonder now what to do
Where does my lonely heart belong?
You said our love would never die
but ashes are what remain.
For this reason now I cry
this suffering causes pain.
how can our love be dead?
for you my heart still sings.
I remember what you said,
in my head in still rings:
"Love doesn't end with death,
our hearts will beat as one,
for me your love is a final breath
as this bullet leaves this gun."
Nov 2, 2018
Nov 2, 2018 at 3:18 PM UTC