The black canvas sits,
Gathering dust.
Let sleeping ghosts lie,
Leave them kept inside.
Glance quick on the past,
Move toward the rising sun.
Blinding,
Dust floats through the beams.
If I could see where I was headed,
Would I keep walking?
I guess this is where we find,
If we were meant to be.
Turning to the moon,
Never hurt this much.

If I told you that,
My head just keeps sayin no,
But my heart keeps givin in.
Could we stop this crazy pain filled game?
Cause lovin is for winners,
And so far ive done nothin but lose.
But I can't turn my back,
Cause you know I can't trust that much.
The bullet holes down my spine,
Tell the story that no one will hear.
But sometimes I'd rather forget,
The lessons I've already learned.

To start again,
To let the innocence guide me,
To believe the fairytales.
But now prince charming is the villian,
And the princess is long gone.
The shining feeling has left,
Replaced by black.
But the light at the end of this tunnel,
Holds promises I'm ready to keep.

Sign your name,
Just above that dotted line.
Push past those thoughts,
Show that you can smile and shine.

Tear down those walls,
That slow down your heart.
Go looking for good,
Find something new to start.

Eat up your past,
Till its not who you are.
Push past those memories,
Treat them as nothing more than a scar.

Turn away and forget.
Say goodbye to the pain.
Grin as big as you can,
Treat this life as a game.

Broken winds,
Sailing through the grass.
Endless it sees all.
Every broken promise,
Every spoken word,
It carries on it's sails.

Taking prisoner all that is meant.
The meak and the unloved,
It wraps around them,
Comforts as no human can.

I sit here,
The wind blowing my hair,
Lonely I listen to the words it speaks,
As it plays through the weeds.
It tells me of the secrets it knows,
Of the great things that it has seen.

I sit and wonder,
If I will ever see them too.
I sit and ponder for my future,
And gently I whisper it my legacy,
To someday come back to me.

I’m stronger than I thought
He will never be forgotten
the memories will take time
but with time will hold no more than a smile for me
And in this note is just to tell him
that I always loved him
and I always will
but sometimes time and circumstance
tear people apart
against their will
love is a silly thing
and sometimes doesn’t work out the way you might want it.
But things will be okay
the dawn is coming.

“Sing me a song” I asked quietly.
He listened to the words and saw no need.
He hummed along to the melody
not knowing it was the words that I so desperately wanted to him to speak.
He never really listened until it was too late,
never took the time to hear the words
behind the notes and chords.
Then that day came around,
when he finally understood.
Why I wanted him to sing those words to me,
that they meant so much more than the melody.