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JMFL Jun 2014
How do the flowers not wilt in the shadows
Along the lonely paths in the desert
I can see them down there in the cracks of the earth
And I wanted to dive from the plane,
Parachuting into the depths with a safe landing of course

I wanted to sit atop the barren mountain face and have a whiskey with a friend
At a wooden square table
With one of those red and white checkered table clothes
You know the kind, like in the movies

I wanted to crisp the skin a little and get lost in the winter like nights
To be so exhausted all I can do is look up and ponder why does the sky look so bright when it is so dark around me
To wake up the next morning feeling like it'll be my last and than to only see that I have conveniently lost myself next to a pond only yards away

Wouldn't that be grand?
Jan 2014 · 371
Glass Trees
JMFL Jan 2014
The trees looked as if I saw them through textured glass
As the rain splashed, tip tappety tapped against my car windows
Tears escaped from my blind eyes
For in this moment I felt beauty
With every fiber of my being
And your face echoed along the waves
Jun 2013 · 516
To My Muse
JMFL Jun 2013
To My Muse

The weather makes it seem easy to disappear
The fog so dense that if you roll down
Your windows you feel like it could
Penetrate your lungs
Makes it enticing to think
What if when the fog lifted

It was a different place
Could you disappear without a trace?
Would you? Could you?
Could you do it, just leave?
Where would you go?
Where would you go?
I want to know!
Because if you do
I’d like to go with you
Wherever it may be

You see it takes two to tango
And I thought maybe you could be my
Dance partner
See if you promise you’ll walk to the edge
Of the universe with me just to see
If anything exists beyond it
I guess I’ll promise that I will be a star with you
But be weary
There will be bumps and
dips and sips of beverages that’ll make us lose our minds
There will be times that our knees feel weak
That our hearts begin to feel like they could break

But see, I will keep my promise
Even though there won’t be much to do
We will burn bright and feel each other’s warmth for eternity
Even though the people below will only see
Images of what we were thousands and thousands of years ago
It is okay, because I am here with you now and
When our time comes

We will go out with a bang
Our insides will combust and will
Turn inside out like the breaking
Of hearts
Won’t it be fantastic?!
That our colorful eye catching insides
Will be on display for
Thousands and thousands of years

We will be remembered
We will end like stars
And all the while I will
Be right here next to you

So as for my question…

Would you like to dance to the end and back?

To my muse
Wherever, whoever, whatever they may be

Would you like to dance to the end of the universe and back with me?

— The End —