I hope your days
Are beautiful
And nights are
Filled with dreams

All of this life it has been-
"she's too young to know what's good for her, you know"
Ah and she should be off with her friends! Having fun, laughing! Go on and play, dear!
But she has been listening in
She has got this heart you see,
Old soul they say
But young enough to know this
and her parents say too young to act like it
It's all this little girl wants is to be her own age
Laugh, joke around, with her real friends
Act her age, because she's old with a young face
Crow's feet when she smiles
Hands that shake when she's got emotion
Little girl is old enough to know what she wants, and still knows
what is GOOD for her
Knows what is safe
and young enough to not care anyway

When the
petals fall,
does the stem
fade too?

We aren't
always
The problem

Take me to the library
And we can sit against the bookshelves
We can look between the pages of some old atlas
Read some book covered in dust
and let the pages crumble onto our laps

Let's rediscover  the places we've
Only been to in our heads
I'd like to travel with you
Take me to the places you've been

Let's go between the pages
and I'll let your words
Rub off on me like sugar
Between my thumb and fore-finger

I've got maps in my head
and I'll show you where they take me
I'll walk with you on some train tracks
And we won't have a purpose

Take me to some interstate
And let's get lost

Being alone again
isn't so lonely after all.

You tell me
You love me in
Private
But
Your friends
Don't know my name

I let myself
Slip away
Softly
Gracefully
Eternally

The Sun Sets and Falls for the Earth,
There are many like her
And only one like him.

He needs her to live..
And still she is ordinary.
Not even the brightest out there...

Warm, and so is he, through her.
Inviting life into his core,
Needing her light and spirit to thrive.  

But the Sun, still falls.  
Though not for him.
But because she does it on her own.

I look in the mirror,
And I find God.
Looking in the eyes
Of someone who doesn't believe
In such a thing.
I guess we question
What we don't know.
I guess that's why I'm so
Good at never saying hello.
Because once they know
You're willing to put in the effort,
You become the only one
Trying to make it work.
So I don't work.
I kiss with the option to run,
To turn left and look back
But not come back.
So I guess I gotta start somewhere.
Same rings as he had,
But slightly luckier to have someone
To call and check on me.

Maybe I just wasn't
Meant to settle

I was as close to you
as I'll ever be again
And the road signs sighed
As I left you unhinged

The first time
You tasted like vanilla
And mint

So many children
are products of science
So few are
born from love

You
Bring back my childhood
Make me woman and girl
All at once
And love me

If you want to know
Where my heart is,
Listen to me say
his name in my sleep.

It feels so complete
To be holding my own
Hands
To be the warmth
My soul craves

Feels like

Looks like
Is

Different

What if I was the tree
And my arms were the
Branches
And you climbed me
Like a clumsy child
And held on to my leaves
Though they fell like rain?

Life is a vine
that grows beneath
The window
Before weaving through
The shudders.
Life is the vine
That contradicts
Your insurance contract
Before being cut down.

four walls could
never be a home
if my soul is sick
and my mind is tired

***** mouth gypsy

Nails filled with soil

Canvas and bootleg

Without the tortured turmoil

Edgy and real

Though sweet as a cherry

She's every bit as dangerous

And wild and growing weary.

She wonders if there's hope

If she lives on the road

If leaving herself behind

Would allow her to find who she is.

I didn't know that
The last time
I hugged you
And told you
To come home
Soon
It would be the
last time

He says to leave you
He says to leave you
You once said to leave him
I left him
Do I leave you?

She's everything-
I used
To not be.

I didn't make
Plans for a future
Simply because there
Wasn't one here

"I'm just waiting
For you to come home
To me,"

You can also
Keep dreaming.

I watched
As you peeled your layers back
Enough for me to see
The ripening fruit underneath
Enough, for me to love
The seeds that spring forth
At the mention of growth.

I watch
As you grow
As you break shell of seed
And peak of dirt
To kiss the air
As gently as ever

I’m in love
With being good
For myself
And mine

Do not
cry for me.
At the end
There is nothing,
But I have not wasted time.

There are leaves on my skin
Glass tongue kissing my legs
Yes they are shadow,
But my legs are covered in vine

And as the moon cast the window pain
Into my eyes I see it
I see it between the vines
Snaking their way through my sheets

Ripping through the cast of my house
Reaching for me in my sleep
Begging to ******* walls
Pleading to tear the carpet into shreds

Leaves on my skin
Though only the light is filtering in
Glass against my hands
The only thing between me and the Jasmine vines

Zůstaneš?

Prison has
Four walls
Several cells
And a warden.
This house is a prison.

She
already forgot
your name
Sometimes
I think that's luck
But I don't want to forget
You

The moon
Fills the glass bowl
That is the sky
Empties my mind
I wonder where you are
If you were made for cities
Did you grow restless in high school too?
Were people like us made for planes?
The ceiling is lit
Do pillows miss us when we aren't there for them to hold us?
Did teachers dream of being teachers?
The world has weight but never falls
I went to tell you I love you
But instead I typed "I don't know "
And life is full of uncertain
And do I want to know?

You adults
Do ridiculous things
Like not telling your children
That you are okay.

Hearts are breaking
And we've run out of tape and glue

How was I supposed to know?
That in the cracks of time,
Are places that you've dropped hints
Of endless happiness.

Where pillows hold your voice for me,
And bed sheets are made of sleep.
Each time I hit them,
I'm thrown back to you.

Walking is easy here,
You need not hang on to your trouble-
For they don't matter in the morning
And nothing will weigh you down.

He will still protect you
Though, if you're scared.  
But there is no reason to be,
This is where dreams come to visit you.

I never used to "goodbye"
But I guess it's easier now
That you're just another guy
Another person to let go of

I never used to count my blessings,
But now they seem lesser and lesser
And you've become a burden
When I have to tell him why I won't say it back

I never used to shy away from love,
But the word never seemed so rough
Looking back at it
Maybe it never started with you

he says
how dare you doubt me
I reply
*how dare you give me no reason to trust you

It was the hands
And their constant shaking
The 2 a.ms of falling apart
The thunder hidden
In my throat
That probably let her know..
And so she asked me
if it was only the rain
Or if she could hear
My soul ******* hitting the concrete
So I told her
I had only just been jumping rope
It wasn't my fear
Knocking on the door
So do not worry
But if she ever asks..
Tell her I'm okay