I wanna have your babies
I think every time I see you
Your curly hair
And silly socks
Your freckles and smile
I just want to be with you

But I know I’m nothing
I’m too ugly for you
I’ve seen the girls you’ve done
I’m not nearly on par
In spite of my best effort

I’m not even sure
You’d want me if I tried
I just wish
That I had the courage
To ask

The demon bellowed out a laugh
“You think I want your prayers?”
He cackled as dust rained
Down from the cavern top
She flinched away in fear

“Do you see this throne?”
He asked, “Do you see it?
Do you know what it’s made of?
Little girl do you know?
It’s made from the bones.”

“The bones of who?”
She asked, weak and scared
“The bones of the men
Who would make me their god.”
He scoffed, “I do not need your prayers.”

“You’ve misunderstood.”
His laughter boomed,
“Then enlighten me mortal.”
She bowed again, a picture of grace
“You’ve misunderstood.”

“It is not to you that I wish to pray,
But for you.”

I have no pity
For anyone else
Beacause no one
Had any pity for me

I once loved someone
Who never really loved me back
So I decided I would make this person
Who I wanted them to be
So I made them hungry until they shook
I laid them on the floor and made them
Sit up sit up sit up sit up
Until it hurt to stand
I rolled them over, made them go
Up and down up and down up and down
Until it felt like their muscles would bleed
I stood them in the shower
And let the water strip them of their skin
And then
I looked in the mirror
At this person I once loved
And I was still not satisfied

Today I saw the world through someone else’s eyes
Like a hypnotist in disguise

I saw the light twist and bend
I felt my life coming to an end

I sensed the pain of a thousand suns
I heard the firing of seven guns

I tasted bitter freedom on my tongue
And smelled sweet smoke in my lungs.

I sat with him
Until he told me his name
The place from where he came
We sat and we talked
His knees tucked to chin
Never once did he look at me
Never once did he sin
He just guided my hands
To the place he had been
He curled up my fist
And told me to aim
Strike hard and fast
Before they hurt you again

Why do stupid people
Feel the need
To share
Their misguided opinions
When absolutely no one
Asked for them

Even when life
isn’t worth living,
The Earth Mother
keeps on giving

Even when there’s
nothing left worth stealing
To Father Time
we keep appealing

Even when we have
worked ourselves to bleeding
Brother Fire
we keep on feeding

Everyday I miss you
But tonight I miss you more
For in the morning you should smile
But tonight the sky’s tears pour
And tonight I miss you more

Everyday gets easier
But tonight is hard
For lavender rain falls
Where wild laughter should flow
And tonight I miss you more

Everyday we spend a part
But tonight I feel you near
This time should be spent together
But “Quoth the Raven ‘Nevermore’”
And tonight I miss you more

Just as the dove
And the crow
Cannot lie together
The same bird
Of a different feather

Just as the mantis
Cannot stay
With his tender mate
The same creature
Of a different fate

I look at the nightshade
And I wonder
How sweet
                   do its berries
                                           taste?

He was beauty, inside and out
He was the silver lining in a world of blackness
He was my light
And now I’m in the dark

I am tired of this
I am tired of you
I am tired of him
I am tired of her
I am tired of that
I am tired of them
I am tired of people who pretend
I am tired of life
I am tired of deaths
I am tired of black
I am tired of white
I am tired of being awake
I am tired of sleeping
I am tired of dreams
I am tired of nightmares
I am tired of not sleeping
I am tired of having too much else to think about
Most importantly:
I am tired