We sit in darkness with wondering eyes
dancing
darting
taunting the light of the fireflies
with mason jars in the moonlit skies
I've smoked nothing, yet
  I still get highs
From the thrill of the chase
  and your arms at my thighs
laying together, side-by-side
Covered only by the blanket of stars
  in the night-time sky
While our fingers waltz
  to our soft whispers and shallow sighs
and our eyes give chase to glowing fireflies

Sitting at the library with blank paper and pen
I was bored so I began to draw a stick figure man
His head was round and his legs were long
He wore a hat and he whistled a song
And in his hand I began to draw another
and decided this hand belonged to his lover
Who was pretty and tall and stick-figure thin
and the stick man knew that she belong with him
So they went for a walk along a lovely beach
And I drew a sand castle just out of reach
With the setting sun in the distance so bright
I drew a bonfire and some marshmallows for the night
A dog, a plane, some friends and some food
Then I stepped back to look at what I drew

I smiled, and with a thought the smile was gone
Something was missing, something was wrong
So I stared and I thought, and I stared so long
Until I realized what had been missing all along
And with a smile I wrote your name by her face
Then I crumpled up the paper and threw it in the waste

I am a little bit of loneliness
sitting alone in this broken home
with arguments over dinner tables
I am able to drift away
like clouds in the winter wind
and like the clouds, crying is all I'm able
but unlike the clouds, my drifting is just a fable
dreaming, singing,
ears ringing
from dinner plates smashed and doors slammed
sent to my room while the adults are mad
forgotten
sitting alone in this broken home
I am able to drift away
like the clouds in the winter wind
I am dark, I am scared
and when I'm all cried out
I am Loneliness again

Sensitivity
its too easy to create
a word, a lie
a slap, a black eye
bred from well timed hate
but to undo the sensitivity
isn't possible I find
once it's created, the mind
makes the reaction innate
and now their fears are realized
because you stopped yourself
one word too late.

Had a nightmare
that scared the death out of me
there were no monsters
that I accidentally set free
there were no blades
or falling from trees
there were no train wrecks
or swarms of killer bees
there were no crazy viruses
or hordes of zombies
all it was, was simply you
turning your back on me.

Sprinting to keep pace, not to win
watching as life gains a foot, a leg, a head
   this place, displaced, retrace you do beg
    Please! you plead, but life pays no heed
      but quickens its pace with a grin
       and then it happened
                                       a stumble
                    a tumble
a rumble
        trouble, doubled
                             and left with toes hanging
                                                         ­            on
                                                              ­      the
                                                       ­           edge
                                                 ­                again

Mind has already sunk,
and soon follows the heart
much worse that you were
when you made this start
victory would have been sweet
but defeat is worse than ****

              Who can help
      Who can you blame
NOBODY, IT'S YOUR OWN FAULT

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You blame you,
Truth blames you,
Shame on you,
'cuz Lies do too.

                                                           Pick Yourself Up
                                                           You are the problem
                                                         ­  You are the answer
                                                          ­ You can solve them
                                                           After you kick off the boulders
                                                        ­   That hold you down
                                                           And dust yourself off
                                                           So you can clean up the scars
                                                           Left by your fall to the ground