Suffocating regret
Dances around the dark
Empty room

Gone is the flame
The unbridled wildfire

My dear
Scarlet fury

Strangers' lives
On separate paths
Entwine together

Strands of fate
Align
Two hopeful souls

For what are we but passengers
On trains
Of grander schemes
Attempting life
Attempting love
Just breathe

Let fears wash off
I'm here
Let sorrow dissipate
My dear
Erase all worries of the past
See clearer
To future bright
And don't forget
To breathe

So many beautiful words
And no one to say them to

The rhythmic ticking of the clock
Resounding quietly throughout
A dark, cool, lonely cabin

The spider calling home
A water pale, baby blue
Must vacate from the rising water
Giving life to plants beneath

The forest's orchestra
Each bird's sweet chirps
Unseen, yet heard

The fire roared some hours past
Now dying quietly
The embers faintly glowing
Oozing smoke

The mountains shared
Life's harmony
With me

Rip me open
Tear me apart
Just as long as I get
To feel you again

When darkness settles all around
The world quiets
Stars creep out
To greet a broken soul
Hello
Silent companions
Brilliant lights of yesterdays'
Adventures
Painted
On the canvas of the night

A picture of happiness and success
Struggling internally

A drag of a cigarette
Calms down the nervousness

Waiting to hear from her
Waiting for her

Oh the foolishness
Desperation

Precarious entanglement
Inevitable outcome

Of loneliness

A little bit
Of you
In me
Filling a gap
The missing piece

The deafening silence
All around
Filling each corner
Of my mind
One by one
Consumes my thoughts
An emptiness
A silent scream

The moon only shines
To reflect
Those eyes
They will blind me
Let me
Drink in the sight
One last time
Brush against me
Hold me
Don't worry
Let go
Vision fades
Into dreams
There
I'll find you
Finally
Let me
Go

Sometimes a struggle
Has no cause

Sometimes a battle
Has no foe

Though often
Do I find myself

Admitting I'm
The root of all

Drink from the cup of despair
Sweet relief
The respite
Though compared to a usual blanket of compliments
Passed at the table
The cloth
Soaked with lies
Stripped of everything once clear to creep up behind
Turned around once again
Just a tad
To the left or the right
Just to prove we avoided disaster despite many nights
Sleepless
Conscious of whirlpools drowning the pieces inside
Left to rot just beneath
The swirling surface
Forgotten
Abandoned
Left off to the side
For the demons to feed on the one thousandths time
Only one place to hide now
Concerning it might have been foolish to think
That tonight could be different
Yet what kind of idiots are we
But instruments left by our hollowed out shells
Seeking shelter from frightening parts of our lives
Left to deal
Regardless of our consent in this fight
With our selves
For a trophy more meaningless than our will
While our ego grabs hold
And manipulates sense of direction
To steer us to hell

Love me to know me
Know me to hate me
Hate me to leave me
Leave me to love me

Love found quickly lost in a whirlwind
A picture
Captured quickly
Swept underneath another scripture
Once made of promises made to no one
Once filled with misery felt eternal
How can a light so true be taken
How was vision so mistaken
Soul torn apart at the seam
Now ruptured
Collapsing structure
Defective architecture
Made to last long enough to witness
The suffering
Grieving
Parts lost of a loved one
Stretched thin
Between the mind and abyss
No sanity expected any of this
Ignorance
Bliss
Simply existing to exist
Ashamed to admit
The resisting will to live

I lie beneath the stars alone
Just wishing for your company
Reliving nights of fantasy
Melting, together
Hearts of stone

The deafening wails
No one else hears
The pain
No one feels

But I

Among
So many
I am
Alone

I belong to the stars
From which I came
To which I'm drawn
Someday
To dust