As for the moonlight,
I confess I barely noticed
there’s a light that’s in your eyes
and i cling to it to be safe.
I know the world keeps turning
only to remind us we are all obsolete
but in this moment, darling,
all i care about is one thing.

I long to tell you everything,
my words are dull and fumbling
so take my hand instead and teach me
to dance to our hearts beating.
I know I’m cliche, naive to say
I swear by God we were meant to find one another
So i shut my mouth, now show me how
To fall into feeling and not recover.

i think i know the answer,
but i'm too afraid to ask
i'll replay the memories
and pray that they don't last.
shifting moods
that left me bruised,
now i feel callused and cracked,
suppressed stitches from years ago
that I forgot I had,
creeps up my throat and into now
to choke me with the past.

i want to hit my head against the wall
until these things fall away,
so i can sweep them under the rug
where they can comfortably stay.
haunted by a possibility,
in love with what life could have been
i shouldn't run away anymore,
though i've tried everything

Toxic people fill my mind
it' s all too much to breathe
their noiseless talking fills the air
and pollutes all that i see.
I planted rosemary in my mind
to replenish and release,
weeds came around and choked them out
along with positivity
I am small in my mind,
so much smaller than before
I tried to close my house from them
but they broke down my door.
The world is full of beauty, I think
I read it in a book
But voices whisper I am wrong,
Maybe I have been wrong all along.
Is goodness really all within,
And if so can it be taken?
I don’t want them to take my soul,
My heart is there’s for breaking.

I remember the way the ocean was deep
Like I recalled a dream.
I remembered the way the wind kissed my cheek
And I felt everything.
I remembered the grass between my toes
And crying with the rain.
I think I remember missing someone,
But I forgot it all again.
I remembered flashing colors
Like pictures on the wall
I remembered painting pictures
And throwing out them all
I remember so many things
I’d rather just forget
I remember forgetting things
I wish i could have kept.

I can’t remember what we blamed;
Fate, or time
Or you and me,
Or he or she
Your anger,
My pride
The fact that you would never
see my side.
Was it you or me
That started this flame
And tried to make that it hadn’t even started,
Never saw it
Ignoring our own charred hands
And broken faces
That looked back accusingly
Through mirrors long since cracked
Reminding us of everything
we thought we could forget.

I love you with my heart
because I see you with my soul
to love you my best friend
my only single goal,

I love your soulful eyes,
they touch me deep within,
you love me as I'm perfect,
an erase the scars from skin,

I have never been touched the way
that you have touched me love,
I feel that if there is a God
he sent you from above,

Everything you say,
just draws me in some more,
I want you every minute,
an it never seems a bore,
you know that I will love you well
an it would never seem a chore,

You understand my mind
we are so much like the same,
I know that you have worries,
yes I know it's not a game,
but to miss two stars align,
it would really be a shame,

Please down the road we go,
until we're back again,
I do hope you will say,
I'll be more than just a friend,

Because the benefits and possibilities
are infinitely beautiful and endless..

Ma Cherie © 2017

Ship in the harbor, I’m leaving today
the sails are set,
I don’t know yet
where it’s going to stay.
Across the crystal water, I’m leaving today
the only place I know I’m going
is that I’m going away.

All the people at the station living out their day
I go to  wander and pray,
I wonder if any of them
have felt this same way.
When my trains pulls from the station I’m going away
Far from all the things I’ve known,
I need to get away.
When I’m gone
will it make a difference?
If I don’t come back
would you remember me?

Speakers at the airport calling meaningless names
I don’t care if it’s mine,
to me they’re all the same.
Pain grows smaller with runway lines, to the sky we take
flying today,
just to get away.

If I flew too high,
would you look to the sky for me?
If the ship went down,
would you look to the sea?

New city every day, finally I am away
I don’t speak the language,
I have nothing to say.
Life can be good whe you get away,
replaced with the longing
to find somewhere to stay.