I came upon you as a broken bird
Shivering under a blanket of darkness
I crawled inside and felt the hurt
Saw a world of starkness

Grabbed your hand, refused to break hold
You said "let me drown," I screamed "Try to swim!"
I decided to stay, though the air grew cold
Fought against the devil's whim

You lie there with a vacant expression
Mumbling your pained confession
I grab you in a fireman's carry
No time to delay, I cannot tarry

Lay you down on the glistening grass
Down into purifying starlight
Where the dark blanket covering is torn away
And you can see who you really are.

Elegance fades into a dull, lifeless shape
Blunt, Coldness, no route to take to escape
Bars around my soul, a tiny prism, and tiny prison
Cage around my heart, locked, and I'm mocked
By the dirt and the wind and the stars and the sky
Destined to die Why?
Slowly decaying, decrepit, not intrepid
I am only a mortal, destined for dust, so I must
Make use of the sand in the glass, before I pass
Before the pulse goes fade, stop, and I drop
And this fragile shell, descends into hell, unwell
From intricacy, to intimacy, to my tomb by the sounding sea
The time in our lives is incredibly short to sort our priorities, it's insanity
That the spark that ignites is so quickly snuffed, it's simply unjust, and I've had enough
Yet there's nothing to do, nothing to be had
To keep us from the reaper's grasp
Don't gasp As if you didn't know that we are all soon to die
Simply ask why?
Someone has planned to give us this life, this planet to grand
Then demand
Loyalty and servitude until our dying day
Doesn't he see? That for us it's only seconds away?
When he gave me this sand, if he wanted me to chase what he planned
He should have given me a few more grains
Not just the promise of fire rains, eternal pains
I may be jaded, but this is how I see
If he gave it to me, that makes it mine
My sand to drain, to use for my own plans
Maybe that way, I can be satisfied, when it's simply my time
For the elegance to fade into a dull, lifeless shape
As long as it's mine, I don't need an escape From the reaper's grasp

You're a coward, you're a fake

And you give me far less than you take

You give me discomfort and you take up my time

So I'll take up a wee bit of yours with this rhyme

You drain all I have then promptly cut ties

You say it's my fault, I say you're all lies

I ask for an answer you give me a blank

This excuse is nothing I can cash at the bank

I ring and I ring, but my voice remains alone

Because you're too pathetic to answer your phone

Friends for three years, and all you can give

Is nothing at all, you've no reason to live

I comforted you in your time of need

Though mine was greater, I gave not into greed

I asked for your help, but never did I drain

All of your energy and leave you in pain

I gave you my best, and then you took all the rest

I continued to listen though my patience you'd test

Still you ignore all my texts and silence your ringer

This rejection carries poison like a scorpion's stinger

One time my well of patience ran dry

And I gave up on you while you continued to cry

But two wrongs don't make right, I thought you better than that

You're a very bad, very mean, vindictive little cat

You say I'm a drama queen, honey look in the mirror

And I know that you won't. Because of fear or

The fact that you know that you would see something gross

A little tip, buy some reality, then take a strong dose.

You say I've done nothing; I've done more than you,

Though I will admit you've done a little for me too

But if I were to put what we've done on a scale

It'd be like measuring an anvil against a nail

You always were a hypocrite, now you're a liar to boot

Someday you'll see your mistake and yell shoot

But by then it'll be far too late

Because you never see beyond today's date

I'm sick of your lies, so to settle the score

This rhyme, not much, good enough for who it's for

Liar Liar pants on fire

I hope you hang from a telephone wire.

The break of a new day

But the sky's still black

I don't know if you're ever coming back

It eats me away, but I don a smile

Hoping you'll only be gone for a while

But every day the wait goes on

And I think of you

Withering petals

A flower not bloomed

The sunshine can't reach you

Through these clouds between us

It's sapping my strength away

To say that we've lost

But the distance between us is a chasm at best

Your heartbeat is cold now within my chest

***** glass, break the glass, please find your way out

And come back to me

All I can do is shout

When those black clouds evaporate

I'll find you again
Light one last cigarette, I'll breathe you in

Your breath still smells of bleach

Razor kisses adorn your arms

Like a thousand roads that navigated you through life's harms

But they don't seem to stretch on beyond those bars

So you sit and decay silently, listening to passing cars

And I sit here, so numb in the comfort of the loneliness

Feeling helpless to help now, I've got only this

All I have is this keyboard to type from my heart

But it can't freeze the flame that's been there from the start.