The stars were not to blame
Nor the ocean between us
Or even that dreadful place
We used to call home

It was only you and me
Always a little too wrong
And maybe just a little
Too late

Flowers do wilt and die
It seems pointless, yes
But have you seen a bud?
Open its sleepy eyes to the dawn

As if a young child was letting out a yawn
With petals for hands reaching out to open skies
And the sun smiled at it
Telling it to open its arms without worry

Wherever you are
Sitting emptily or reading
My heart will follow you
A ghost walking next to you
Drawn to your love
A memory stuck in the past
It'll fall upon like rain
There'll be days when you'll find it in sunlight
Sometimes, it'll fly like the butterflies
It will be a hug
Even at the dead of night
I've said your name so many times
The moon knows it's for you

The silly minutes
rage by like a
falling cuckoo clock.
Dilapidated dreams are
bent and burnt like
autumn leaves.

**** the cliches.
Time hurts, like a
gaping wound.
Hold it close, and
value every precious
second.

In my poisoned arms
You can hear the muffled screams of my heart
Lurking in the shadows is a face
In the darkness, too hard to see

I've been wallowing in self pity
Swallowed by my own delusions
Trapped by my inner confusion
Crumbling under pressure of words

There's some feeling left in there
It is so empty, it is devoid of belief
But I do care now
Because you stirred my soul

I'm a victim of my own carelessness
A lifeless shadow of the past
Has convinced me to let go
Before the first step is walked

If I start now
It need not be perfect, right?
If I find love
It'll be because you walked in my life

When its gently raining, I'll live through it all again
It feels cold as it pours down the drainage hidden below sidewalks
In its rhythm and sounds of drops hitting leaves, empty streets whisper carelessly
There's a hollow bodied rhyme that longs for your sweetness in kisses

Your presence makes my life mean something, it is beyond what I can explain
I can't quite figure it out but it is something in your eyes
The gleam
The way the light dances in your heart and shines through you

When its clear skies outside, those lips are red
There's a place in my heart where it is warm yet unexplored
In the flowers and bees that live in the thriving atmosphere
There's a mighty beating heart that yearns for your strength and lightness of being, too

I've had enough of the beauty of seasons, I've had enough of the reasons to live
I've had enough of me and you being so forlorn from the past
So hurt inside, irreplaceable, irreparable, and broken like the fools

Torn apart from the seams like a book laying on the streets of pain
Where the rain has covered the leather in tears, drops of memories
Gashes form on the cover, your book has my name
Mine has yours, it drips in sweat and heat

I've seen you cry for me in the simplest way a child would
But I've been there in a way that I can't quite figure out
So you've surrounded yourself with the ghosts of your sorrows
And I've held on to the hope of tomorrow, slowly falling into the traps that God has laid for me

Its cold and damp now, I'm misguided you see and the words don't come easy
But they pour like the rain does a cold evening
I've cried enough tears for you, you'd break every time you see me
You've seen me once before in my coldest moment and in my most vulnerable

But not this way ever, I've never felt this way before
There's a tenderness in your heart
Supple skin covers your frame
You're the one who makes me believe in life's good things
It's the littlest things you see, you can hold me in your heart

I wouldn't mind being around you in spirit
Think of me when the day's done, I'll be there in the vestige of the night sky
You'll find me in the dawn's gentle light
It's the littlest things you'll find mean the most to me

My heart has a songbird
That I keep hidden from everyone
Naturally, I thought you were tone deaf too
Just like the others

So I kept the bird caged and alone
With the passage of years
She stopped warbling her practiced notes
I too stopped missing her soothing tone

Maybe she found another home
The bird could have flown anywhere
I had always wondered where it had gone
Knowing it was time that I let go

Until you told me
Something was throbbing in you too
What was confined in me
Was suddenly freed in you