The morgue is filled with all
the dead faces I once wore,
I am no mortician ,
The bodies have begun to rot,
The men I once claimed to be
can no long pass for the real thing,
I wore their faces like masks,
Played the role that was asked,
Encores were demanded,
I was not prepared for this,
I am no mortician,
The bodies have begun to rot,
I guess the show goes on,
Even with broken things

You've got me speaking Neruda,
Sonnets circling around in my head,
Rolling those sweet words from the tongue,
Surrounding this daughter of the seas
So I'd like for you to hold still,
And let this heart dance within me

Hold steady this heart of mine
for it rumbles in your absence
left me quivering in a golden tomb
I lay silent underneath the cherry tree
watching the clouds creep across the sky
Just like we did long ago

Head in his books, Mind fluttering elsewhere
Floating back across the atlantic
The breeze rustles the crowns of their golden heads,
Taking what they’ve learned back to the place
from which they once came,
For hours now they’ve stared off into the distance,
Her touch introduces itself to my side,
Our sails carry southern winds,
Making our way past foreign lands
The lights of the mainland have dulled in the distance
And the vast of the ocean is all that remains

The ocean will always whisper to
me it's sea salt kisses,
The moon hung high above it,
Seeing all my ***** and forgottens,
We looked for trouble all night,
Slept when the sun came up,
I felt like a child again.

On this hillside,
I eyed down the tides,
Watched you roll on in,
Back and forth
This game of chance,
Be my always,
Tell me about forever,
Im tired of writing valentines,
To unrequited lovers

The linens are still waiting for
you on the bedside table,
I left the window open,
letting the breeze and sunlight
saunter on in just how you used to like it,

Picture frames on the walls are just memories behind glass,
trapped like history in a museum,
no magnifying glass will show me where it all went wrong,

I am not the best at math,
tell me what to do to this equation
so both sides come out alright,
divide me by 2, I am only half of myself without you

There are still parts of us concrete
a sidewalk between our waists,
not yet overgrown with dandelions in the crevices,

Note books are drowning in alphabets,
all the right words, in all the wrong sentences,
rivers beneath my skin, help me to stop the flooding

Know not of who this one was for,
But it was a carousel in my head,
Around and around it whispered,
Secrets I dare not be the carrier of,
Wrapped themselves around my hip,
I hope nobody sees

These rainstorms stole my heart,
This feeling I’ve professed,
Let it ring out loud,
Forget the physicality of it all,
To know the difference,
Between the sound of another,
And the cries of your own
Such a sinful security,
What a way to love,
Ive fallen too **** hard,
and too **** fast,
To be thinking like this.

I've dirtied these palms
Mistakes from before
I've killed off my demons
They all ran like the wind
I've buried myself in bodies
Hoping to find something again
I've never been so lost
Such a gallery of faces,
none of them mean anything

To be honest
I miss my home
The absent minded drives
Back to the street I grew up on
The nights on the pier
The smell of a twilight
To be honest I miss the people
The quirks and the oddities
I miss the way they speak
The comfort it all can bring
I miss the way she looked at me
So much has changed now
Maybe I have too
But certain parts of me long
for the way it once was
But what I know can never be

We lost each other in December,
The snow covered the tracks we left,
In the spring our ribcages bloomed,
The flowers grew wild and plenty,
It's summer now and I miss your heat,
I hope you come when the leaves fall

This lighthouse of a body turns
as the evening rolls in
This fog of a week has been
clouding the thoughts that circle
round and round inside my head,
I still do not know what it is that
makes these storms gather within myself
Still do not know how to make
all the thunder in me settle to a hum
I still guide the ships home at night
I still stand tall in the rain

When the heavens open up
And the rivers sings loud,
I hope you make instruments of trees
Hold steady by my side darling
Take away these night aches
Swing your hips beside mine
Move your body to the light of the moon

what will it take to finally understand
the pattern in my lungs
and the reason for the air

My god she's got angels in her throat
Every word sounds like a melody
She could read me tax reports and
I would mistake them for love songs
How can I compare my notes to yours?
How did you steal the ocean from my gaze
What love is this that has its own orchestra
One that wakes the trees in the morning
And whispers lullabies when I dream

The open window beside our bed
Welcomes the light of southern moons
Highlighting the shape of your body
The hill of your waist to upper thigh
I want to drink the moon
From every inch of your form
Hold you in the night as if this world
Stands still just for the two of us merely for a moment
As the smell of the wind and the sounds of the magnolias rusting in the distance float on in
My eyes fall heavy in this paradise of a bed

After the chatter of evening
A hush floods the room
The willow seeps the moon
Upon the yard in its wake,
She's been dancing for hours now,
Making a mausoleum
of this home

We all want the ocean
Or to hold mountains in our palms
Feel the winds whisp between our fingertips
And the warmth of summer on our necks
We all want everything
But to be content with this small plate of life
Should fill the heart up to its brim

I am mending this heart of mine,
Sewing together the parts torn away,
The distance I've put between
us was intentional,
I can not move forward
with you on my horizon,
You've made your decision,
Your own path to take,
I am headed for the south,
Somewhere for solace,
Somewhere to rest

Withered Innards
No beauty in the beast,
Where is the medicine?
Do not be some savior,
When something is broken,
It is easier to find a new one.

We dance by the fire
Burn our thighs
I watch you glow in the light
Love you like a airplane
Soar with grounded wings
Share teeth like the dentist do
Let me die silent
Let us be at peace
hold our bodies close
Until this heart is at ease

light a fire in my chest
Melt away the frozen parts
My mind has been shivering for years
You bring this heat back to my spine
And I’ve been burning like gasoline
these past dreams of evenings

As simple as the seasons
I'll say this how it comes
I'm dying to hold you
I want to taste your skin
Caress your body
and tell you about this love
This quiet simple thing

The day brings dawn,
Sunlight across your face,
Outlining the most precious of frames,
What a masterpiece in it’s borders,
Venus can do you no justice,
So many questions to ask,
Searching for the answers,
I’ve held my tongue for weeks now,
Too infatuated with your tones,
To care much about anything else

Tonight I listened to your story
Heard the path you have walked
How you took flight with angels
And how you came crashing back to earth
If I could
I wish I could take all the hate in your heart
Bury it in some forgotten chest
and set it out to sea
You say how you've become a shell
Battered and bloodied
The king of nothings
Shackled to a spiteful god
who will never know your name
You say they only thing you ever loved
was the way she made you feel
How she flooded your veins and
claimed your body like a battlefield
And how everyday without her
leaves you more hungry than the last

Rumor has it
The gentle of midnight
Has held this simple bed
Lay me down upon it,
Play a chorus of skin
I hope you read every word
I've never spoke