Cramming fingers on keyboards
Cramming knowledge in the back of our minds
Puke it on these papers to get by for four years
This is high school

Graduate
Move on
The tests life will throw our way
Will be impossible to study for
Cram your way through school
Life will be the death of us
We will all miss high school

Feet on the dash
We smoked the stash
Threw out the ash
& Tried not to crash

The smoke hangs
In the sun’s lazy rays
You brushed away my bangs
As we continued to blaze

Maybe it’s you
Maybe it’s the high
But this feels like déjà vu
& I still don’t know why

Let me walk with no agenda
to where the failed days are still rewarding.

No judgment,
no burden, no façade.

Let me take off all that is me
and become what is meant to be,
Who is meant to be.

Let me drop what is now and
run to the woods,
my solace, my love.

Let me rise with the sun and let it warm my heart
like you never could.

Let me sing with the barred owl at dawn,
and let me scream my lament with the crows.

Let the dew upon my feet be the tears
that wouldn’t fall.
I wipe them off so easily.


I am the moon, I am the sun,
the displaying turkey, the loping deer.
I am the morel living with the dead.

Let me be the maple,
the bramble, the peat.

Oh just let me be.
Let me be me.

In my home.
In the woods.

With the answer.

The door went ‘ping’
and you walked in,
making jaws drop,
making hearts pop.

There’s no kernel of doubt
I’d like to take you out.
You’re a butter-kissed delight
and you’ll taste just right.

I’m sweet for you,
I’ll be a treat for you;
and if you’re not salty,
I won’t be faulty.

This is corny – I know that –
But it’ll be worth getting fat.
**** my diet and my waistline;
Let’s cheat death one tub at a time.

Here I dwell,
Embedded in the memory of you.
I reside in the there
of which you once existed.
Reciting moments which seem close enough to grasp
They lay within the palms of your rugged, resilient hands.
I am inferior
Delirious in the concept of your being
Far from where you are
I question the complexity of this madness.
May I ever find peace within your sturdy grasp
I ponder aimlessly at the thought of your return
Sluggish and hopeless I find myself waiting
May we ever be again my old friend?

Sometimes I
                            p
                                o                                      all that I have, all of my energy
                                  u                            & time, maybe even some of my love    
                                    r                       
                                      ­                   into
                             **nothing

Everybody wants just what they want
At every given moment
But the veil that blocks their logic from reaching
Dulls that very potent
Truth, is that when there is nothing but Sun
What comes of it is desert
I don't know about you
But joy becomes tiring

Girl please just do this for me
I know it's really hard
But if you just try to calm your rough seas
It will be easier to start
Something that lasts forever

Now I don't want you to get the wrong idea
Because its might sound like a fairy tale
But if you just put all of your trust in my heart
The joining of our simultaneous beats may tip the scale
It could be that no ones seen anything like this before
But I'm willing to go that extra mile
Who knows, we just might be etched in modern folklore
We might be able to make the drizzle turn to beautiful downpour

So let the water fuse with your skin
Put all your faith in me
Just open up your arms and soak me all in
I'll turn the lights on so you can see again
I'm not promising anything out of this world
But what I'm saying is that this is special
And with something like this, who knows what could unfurl?
Just let me know if you get me

So much lost
And so much learned
We'll push our luck
Laughing with tears
We'll make mistakes like every child
Does once or twice
We'll go beyond
And do it thrice
Who knows where
Or why and what for
But we'll  try each key
Open each door
Throw our pennies down the well
Ride each wave
And crash each swell
We'll hold on til the bitter end
Only believing in the innocently pretend
We'll wreck our brains and feed our souls
Build memories and forget about gold
For it's too heavy for the free of heart
And last but not least
We'll make a strong pact
That no matter who or what
We won't look back