I see passing smiles
And can only reflect them back
I see happiness through memory files
Playing emotional copycat
Circling the Earth for miles
In search of the key
To free me from this prison of denial
That lay rest in the deepest parts of me
When it is said and done
I am everyone to no one
I am no one to some
Here I stand
Just a mirror for the sun.

Appreciate the shadows
As you do the sun
Conquer bright days
To prepare for grey ones
Feel acceptance when the rain comes
The darkness is a friend
It was there before
So,
It shall be when it ends
Allow it to borrow your sorrow
Long nights always precede better tomorrows
See,
Everything taken is given again
Life took my love
Now tears I couldn’t cry fill this pen
In the end,
Death allows the flower to bloom again
So,
When it’s my time
Just let me grab my coat and straighten my hat
For we all walk hand in hand with the man in black

I must be wearing blinders
Can’t understand why we put the past behind us
You say you have my memories filled in binders
Letters, menus, pictures, poems
Do you read the words as I once wrote them?
Every time we speak it’s like a small explosion
If I could cry,
I swear these tears would fill the ocean
You show these little cracks
I try and fill my hope in
Your happy, I’m happy
Inside I am burnt and broken
Man,
It must be this **** I’m smoking
My words betray me
I’m self-exposing
Do you ever ask yourself why you were chosen?
I just wonder how you can up and leave
But I guess that’s just the motion
See,
I keep our memories in a little folder
Every night I crack it open
I don’t read the words
I just sit and listen
It’s like my heart ran off in one of your ink descriptions
Maybe there’s something in these syllables that I been missing
Some clarity to such a rash decision
Was our love that much of a car collision?
It keeps me up at night
This is why,
In life your supposed to fight
For what you love
Sweat, tears and dripping blood
But,
I guess I’m just a memory in a binder
A little boy dreamed of a girl
Never thought he would really find her

Feeling the moment slip away
Losing direction out here in space
Trying to find myself
Tracing a path from the sun’s rays
Across the stars to that one place
Beyond the moon that bares your face
Out past the field where asteroids play
Carried out of the Milky Way

Into the void my journey takes
Through the holes carved out of endless space
Spiraling around for what feels like days
Suddenly, light illuminates my face

Flashes of life create this wave
That carries me back from whence I came
Back on Earth
Don’t feel the same
The stars out there call my name

I can hear them say
A journey through life is built on pain
Even the brightest of us lose our flame
When we are weak, we do not pretend
We burn out
So to shine again