Joseph Perales

Joseph Perales Sep 2010

I wish, for the slightest second,
that I might stop swinging
between running away from her
and, with finger tips, clinging

I feel my grasp slip slowly
I wish I had a better hold of her
I’ve been calling for hours now
but I can’t seem to get ahold of her

I want to tell her that I love her
despite my every transgression
that she should take precedence
and be my only obsession

all I want is to stop this rain,
I want our storm to see a calm,
to feel her voice in my ears
and hear her hand in my palm

I wish, for the slightest second,
I could show her the forever
that I had always planned
with us hand and hand together

Joseph Perales Sep 2010

All of Our Hopes Were Seeded

I fell in love with a girl
and she in love with I
we pledged our existence
For here until we die

we reveled in love
it was all we needed
in one another’s eyes
all of our hopes were seeded

but what happens now
that everything’s been broken
that our final good byes
have now been spoken

forever, until we die.
that’s what we said
because without her
I’m nothing but dead

Joseph Perales Sep 2010

******* By My Repose

******* by my repose
confined in these here clothes
why I’m here who honestly knows
perhaps to keep you on your toes

most likely to keep me on mine
involuntary impulses through my spine
to jolt my idle body back into line
a puppet posed to play fine

I will sever these said stings
so I may move on to grander things
move where love rarely stings
and the sky and moon often sings

Joseph Perales Sep 2010

and Worse Yet Ambitious

my tongue tastes like cheap girls
and my mother’s disapproval
if I had any indication of a mind
it would be primed for removal

what a mess I’ve made of myself
and an even grander one of she
she really should have known better
I can’t even bring myself to love me

I’m vicious, and malicious
with venom in my kisses
I’m lonely and I’m listless
always your favorite sickness
seduction like it was seditious
amiable, and worse yet ambitious

sights and sickness set on you
I’m the monster inside your bed
like something similar to a siren
my songs stained inside your head

if love is truly a great battle field
no holds barred war will be waged
I will destroy and devour all in sight
no one will be saved, I am a lion caged

I’m vicious, and malicious
with venom in my kisses
I’m lonely and I’m listless
always your favorite sickness
seduction like it was seditious
amiable, and worse yet ambitious

Joseph Perales Sep 2010

If Only I Could Find the Key

I’d let the piano drive me
as far south as we can go
If only I could find the key
I’d leave all that I know

I’d let the music move me
To letting all my bridges burn
And I’d write one last note
Leave this town and never return

I think this town is tired of me
Keen to all my same old tricks
I’m aging a little too rapidly
The clock mutters too many ticks

I’ll move where people still smile
even if it’s only a mask they place
Because seeing at least one smile
is better then every frowning face

I’d let the piano drive me
as far south as we can go
If only I could find the key
I’d leave all that I know

I’d let the music move me
To letting all my bridges burn
And I’d write one last note
Leave this town and never return

I’ll miss it, I’m sure I will
My new home will start to wane
a brand new town to live
every one dying of the same old pain

Maybe it’s me that has changed
Maybe I responsible for the old grins
this will be where the new I dies
And the old me once again begins

I’d let the piano drive me
as far south as we can go
If only I could find the key
I’d leave all that I know

I’d let the music move me
To letting all my bridges burn
And I’d write one last note
Leave this town and never return

Joseph Perales Sep 2010

Love Was and Love Is

love was frail, but it was all that made me strong
love was short, but I’ve dreamt of it all life long
love was right, but along the road became wrong
love is word, that when said by two becomes song

Joseph Perales Sep 2010

We Wrote A Story, You and I

We wrote a story, you and I
In our skin and in the sky
With our lips and with our eyes
With our truths and with our lies

Skip the prelude and introduction
Start to strip **** with stark seduction
I love you written inside timid ears
I love you erased all teaming fears

You were all I wanted, all I needed
Hearts exalted, expectations exceeded
Now you’re all I crave, night and day
But along this road we lost our way

Have we more chapters to author
Or did we deliver all we’ve to offer
should we put our pens out of commission
As we reach the end of our fruition

a love we couldn’t put above our selves
Now writhes on rotting bookstore shelves
Deep in those hearts, hard and leather bound
There will be but this inscription found

we wrote a story, you and I
In our skin and in the sky
With our lips and with our eyes
With our truths and with our lies