i will not adorn this
will not weave in images that would distract
will not fill the heart of it
with tender thoughts
i will let it speak in its own words
i will let it be true to its nature
i will let it be
a simple thought and emotion
a hearts truth
it is
i am desperately alone
and i desperately wish you were here to hold me

Your hypnotic eyes, faceted beguiling jewels
bright as a million stars, entrancing liquid silver pools
and I, just another one of love's dumbfounded fools

I don't know how to to get to you~
I want pull you into me
But I don't know how to get to you
We swim in a giant sea

Finding you was hard for me
I wish I had the hook you need
I don't know how to get to you

I don't know where your at
Love to be where your at
Swimming so close to me
The person I want touching me
I don't know how to get to you
I wish I could get to you
This is a giant sea
Currents might carry you away from me
That thought scares me
I have a few insecurities

I want to be what you want
I want to tease you and to taunt
I wish I had the hook you need
I wish I knew how to get to you~
I want to make you drool
Not sure I know how to get to you

Tell me and I will make it come true

Want you please speak to me in the 60's
In far out psychedelic rhymes
Take a ride beside the blacklight
On the Velvet Underground

Wake me up with the Strawberry Alarm Clock
Serving incense and peppermints in bed
Fixing a hole where the rain gets in
As the 60's flood my head

Walk with me through Asbury
With a flower child in hand
Listening to the groovy tunes
Of Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band

Hang out with the hippies
Before Monterey goes pop
As they fly like butterflies
At the moment the acid drops

Want you please speak to me in the 60's
In the innocence of peace and love
Back then we all had our share
But is there ever really enough?

the heartbeat of the living night
breathed its magic into my mind
as she sailed into the room like fairytale of an ocean tide
sweeping away all that i had been so dreamin darkly of'
in a simple cotton dress and a floppy hat
danced a quick two step to the music and smiled to me
with such a sweet innocence that it simply melted time for me
we talked half the night
till the dawn touched her hair like fire meeting snow
and i will never forget the words she gave to me
like the key to kingdoms great and small
like the secret of mystery's expressed by none other than
the gentlest songbird on a midnight breeze mid-summers eve
she told me to take her to my bed
and to never let her go
but time has made miles out of the molehills
and my boyhood bluejeans are now an old mans tattered flag
but my heart still thunders like
the heartbeat of the living night
whenever my thoughts turn to her
when that little two step quick smile comes to mind
soft thunder never faded cause the heart remains true
and i will allways be there
in her sweetest arms
in her spring nights soft dream

Looking dead and empty from the outside
Every window dark and overgrown
A picture perfect not-so-sweet abandon
Standing long forgotten and alone
Beckoning to me with secret nothings
And stories each of us may never tell
A place that life and time have long forgotten
A place of death not far from living hell

Twisted vines tattoo the sides like cancer
Cataracts of dust enslave the glass
A jagged smile of railing slats now beckons
Waiting for the worst to come to pass
The steps, askew and incomplete, sustain me
As do the missing pieces of my mind
With every step, a creak that echoes louder
Than the silence that will fill the end of time

The door, now long ajar and slightly canted
Much like my eyes, half open to the truth
Sees through me, as I gaze into forever
Caressing every shadow of my youth
The surface, cracked and scarred like distant memories
Much like the hide of demons yet to be
Becomes as braille beneath my trailing fingers
And whispers, “Come…,” as fate opens to me

The corner shaves an arc on dusty floorboards
Motes now rise and sway, as if entranced
Every footfall landing past the threshold
Conjures more to join this ghostly dance
Etching upon stillness a reminder
That even the forgotten tend to change
Emphasizing time as an illusion
Every passing moment soon estranged

Traversing through each room, the memories linger
Linger but a moment do I dare
For in each dusty corner lies a shadow
Lying not, while hungry and aware
Every hallway stretches on eternal
No trace of salvation upon the stairs
Nothing here but promises now hollow
Forcing me out into fresher air

Wading through the overgrowth and briers
Working my way ‘round this haggard shell
The cellar door awakens now from nowhere
Hinting both to heaven and to hell
Standing here in waiting, not in wonder
Not knowing how I know what soon will be
The cellar door extends its invitation
As it opens ever slowly unto me

Stepping into darkness disillusioned
Emptiness extends its open arms
Embracing me despite the separation
Beckoning me further in its charm
Crying, not in fear, but in elation
I stagger through my tears to my demise
The death of everything I had forsaken
Forgotten like the past I had disguised

In the furthest corner of my conscience
Crouching in the corner of the tomb
The child of devastation smiles sweetly
Driving every darkness from the gloom
Fighting not the chains that hold him captive
No longer forgotten and alone
For I have come to free him from the memories
And together, we will find our way back home