The daunting task
of promising your love
without wanting to promise
you'll still be around
to give it back;
Take each step with grace
take each fall with pride
I'll follow you
until the end of time

Have I driven you to the edge?
Have I plucked each plume from your back
And told you, you'll manage?
Have I dug our grave months in advance
Each night i refused to pray?
Have I ruined us?
Did I break us?
Is the sun finally out for good.

With demons at my toes
I curl my feet round yours
Deep within our blanket igloo;
I can trace your bones,
From one shoulder to the next
Until reality comes spiralling forward
And every dark corner
Is slowly forgotten.
Each night I bury my worries into your neck
With a soft slow kiss
As you relish in your deep slumber;
The only time I don't mind
Going unnoticed.

Told to choose this way or that
I'm ****** either way
Why still try to win?

Sleep
Before the sun comes up to get you
Or your inner demons are released
And wreak havoc to those around
Sleep
Before those demons start to control you
While each day and night twist into one
Driving you closer the the edge
Sleep
Before the moon replaces your lover
And the sun is the only one able
To reveal your pain to others
Sleep
Before your last wish is to be able
And finally with the barrel to your teeth
You've been granted eternal slumber

silent defeat
down rosy worn out cheeks
once my moon has risen
to its highest peak;
where are your rough fingertips
to wipe away my storm?
pulling back the blinds
to block out your sun.
Sleep now before they wake
for your night has reached its end
and mine has just begun.

After the lightning and thunder subsides
and the rain has been reduced
to a soft drip
off the rooftops of my suburban stomping grounds.
The only sounds that echo down the streets
are husbands coming home
to their sleeping wives
and the tree's shaking off their fresh coat.
A barren sky is set before me
with no stars in sight to keep me company
as I soul search in the streets
barefoot and longing
for my other half who'd find
this entire scene serene.