When you come to me, unbidden,
Beckoning me
To long-ago rooms,
Where memories lie.

Offering me, as to a child, an attic,
Gatherings of days too few.
Baubles of stolen kisses.
Trinkets of borrowed loves.
Trunks of secret words,

I cry.

I've been fighting
The devilish tongued liars
All night
With the door locked tight
Pitch black in the corner
Back towards the truth tellers
Who refuse to speak louder
Than the hum from a lightbulb
Thats filament has long since shattered;
I know its there
Somewhere
But its dark and my backs still turned
And my ears can only hear what has been said towards my face

Boldly going nowhere fast
Rolling in the fragrant grass
This has-been kid sits on his ***
Waiting for bad **** to pass
Nothing lately comes his way
Out of pocket
No means to pay
He slow starts to slip away
Fading fading like the light
Slipping sliding losing might
Verging deeper
Can not be heard
This young man won't be deterred
This passing phase
Won't phase him out
He'll rise up strong
Without a doubt
Learning lessons the hard way
Because this kid is known to party
This kid known to hit drink hard
But it hit him back
Left several scars
Winded
Wounded
Fighting back
This dark black out
Will be a thing of the past

It's all a glance and a little thought I had,
That started in a room full of studs.
A single deed has lit the stillness of my thoughts.
T'was a piece of yellow paper handed to me.
You've never realized that's half of my day a thought.
Yet you've made one thing possible to me that day.

I felt shamed and glad on the contrary.
Can't believe but a stranger did it to me.
Now I fall into too much pondering,
But still could not justify a string in it.
I'm a broke and can't read you,
Yet I long to wake up where I can see truth.

On the third moon I still wander on a broad daylight,
Wanting to find out if I'm still with me.
But a shadow showed me where the sun has not shone.
It isn't mine nor somebody I know.
I startled abruptly and screamed;
Because I'm afraid I won't recognize the face.

I turned my head ahead and tried to keep on.
My feet suddenly lose it's courage to touch the ground.
Like a child scare to take it's first steps.
Like a warrior afraid to lose in fights.
But at my back says, never waver,
I'll suppress your fights so you'll conquer.

I was blinded by injustice and too much agony.
I was succumb with my own fear and loses.
But that shadow which showed me where the sun has not shone,
Told me to hang on and be still.
I was like a prey submitting my self heartily.
Because I know this shadow won't **** me.


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You asked me for a late night drink
You worried just what I might think
I saw you hide the laundry by the sink
As I moved the cat to find the sofa

You said this wasn't really you
As you sat down kicking off your shoes
You said you asked me, what's there to lose
As you moved beside me on the sofa

A good girl, that was what you were
People say "oh no, not her"
I heard the cat again, really loudly purr
As we stretched out on the sofa

I knew that I should rise and leave
A tale like this, who would believe
They would think I was the one who did deceive
As we tumbled from the sofa

I remember how we spent that night
At first it was just stay or flight
I stayed and you know it turned out right
Sixteen years...upon that sofa

Once just Two little people
Now all grown
Far from me
All on their own 

Years fly by
Like a buzzing bee
Only 5 minutes ago
Both were Half the size of me

Now they're adults
Out in the big world
My handsome boy
And my baby girl

Always on my mind
And forever in this heart 
Regardless of how much
Distance apart

I look at a Map
Great distance I see
Of where they are 
And where I be

They're always with me
Their smiles give me mine
My Two little people
Are doing just fine 

I'd give anything
And then give even more
For my calendar to read
1994

Until the time machine
Is finally real 
I'll carry some sadness
That sweet memories kinda heal

If I had three wishes
I'd only need one
I'd wish a long lifetime of love
For my daughter and son