Place your hand in mine and I would give you the world I live in
Albeit small and not worth much but it would be yours
The words I speak to you in the hours when I can't sleep,
Day after midnight and before dawn you are the sanctuary I seek

If I ever leave it best not be for long as each step I take counted,
With perfect remembrance so that I can follow them back to
The place where my heart stays, where my world lives, where I relive
The most comforting memories ending with your voice in my ears
And a smile on my lips, an expression shared in the space between our atoms

In the times when frowns adorn our ugly faces and words sting with thorny kisses,
I will try not to think that this isn't you that this is just as much a part of the painting,
The weeping woman that hides behind legs and cries tears that I will stanch
With a shirt sleeve or two, with my beard on your neck prying a sympathetic upturn
Will you let me be that for you, will you let yourself forgive our thorns,
Will you give me your world?

Sorrow the mother cries for its babe
Murdered picked apart
An empty corpse lying in the snow
The only reminder of the brief existence
That painted this earth with salt

Put yourself in my shoes
Stare into your eyes and tell me how you feel
I couldn't bare to let you go
Without these words hitting your ears
I wrapped you in my arms and let you leave
But I shouted, screamed from the rooftops
My life is better with you in it
Living here and not having you in my arms right now
Pulls tears from my eyes and words from my heart
I hope that when your hands find their way atop mine
You're able to say it with your shoes on your feet

These two arms hold
You in them and
I won't let you
Fall out of their reach

In the evening when you
Try to leave me
Hanging on your last
               Sen
                      tence

I will crawl back repeatedly
If you'll have me once and once more
I hope you'll have me again
This time not so broken
The next time even less so

I'm not my mistakes or achievements
Yet I wish I was always yours

Please forgive me
I have these thoughts
Of you and I that
Run away at dawn

A swing set below
Sycamore branches
Half diminished arpeggio
A mystery on the wind

A sound so sweet
Your feet tickled by
The long grass hopping
Neath whispering cacophony

Tangled in a peach
Painted sky
So tired am I of this
Lullaby I love

I long to hold your hand at twilight
Whilst our prayers fly away

Seven taken from my voice box
Seven given to the bride
Seven broken at the alter
Where our love resides

My eyes drift and tongue splits over thoughts of you
Like waves upon the rocks I sequest in rocks pooled
Emotions that are seldom said instead erode
What's there doesn't seem to know
Doesn't seem to care what it affects
Acted indifference with a cement star and a Hollywood name
Takes you away and leaves me the same
Till the wind blows back the other way and my face can change yet refuses to do so.