Keiko

Keiko Sep 2012

I have been mistaken for quite sometime now--
    I do not need you to release me with the truth;
    Only I have the power to do that.

I have forged these chains of ignorance with passion;
    Blinded by solemnity
    I hopelessly waited
    for you
        to rescue
            me.

How foolish, for only I hold that key--
        As it should be.

So I will say my "goodbye" once more
    And shut the door
    because I am strong enough to
And these chains will be vanquished
    by my own
            heart,
   mind and
        soul.

Keiko Aug 2012

The Second Half

The broken hearted weep
while the other side sleeps
in freedom
from the tangling of
heart-strings

When will your heart go amiss;
And mine reach its'
freedoms bliss?

Keiko Aug 2012

A question never answered.

If I died tomorrow,
would you have loved me
yesterday?

Keiko Dec 2011

For you.

As you kick me out your house to leave
I do concede
These feelings that I plead
For you
My heart still bleeds
For you

But whether you understand or care
Is neither here nor there
I simply breathe air
For you
An unrequited affair
For you

These words are conglomerated
Only confusion is created
Cognitions translated
For you
Feelings inflated
For you

A bleak misunderstanding
A fatal crash-landing
But feelings expanding
For you
Notwithstanding
For you

Despite this bitter fate
These feelings won’t abate
I will stand by and wait
For you
In a terrible state
For you

Keiko Dec 2011

Façade

Flowing words
   do not beat
as the rhythm of my heart
For they are scarce
   and hard to come by;
Though quiet it seems
   it beats in rapid
succession
At times
     in silent discontent,
    in chaos caused
  by my own façade;
The ironic cadence
   becomes unbearable
And with each--
          sounding--
              beat--
I become weaker,
      and
          weaker.
Yet, I stay in silence
    all too afraid
to scream
        and disturb the peace
Though I compromise my own.

So in vain I sit
in hope someone
will hear
                  the stillness
which rings in
my ears.
My façade is
  all too great
an impenetrable burden
of my own creation
It is this harsh and
       succinct
rhythmic tone
which is my demise
I am trapped
         trapped in structured
synchrony
for the appearance of calm
And I cannot
    quiet my heart
                  and
                                     release
For I am utterly
   scared of the consequence

So I turn
  to you
as I fall from
pressure.
You manage to
calm my quiet,
discontented heart
As no one has before;
The sound is bearable--
the beat has returned;
soothing and calm
Your eyes
      announce
there is nothing
wrong;
there is nothing
wrong;
It will resolve--
   and it has
A better song
      stays in
              my
                 Heart.

Keiko Dec 2011

Shattered

Upon these shattered lights she treads,
Alas, her beauty was not dead.
She feigned for sleep but could not die,
For only love did catch her eyes.

Up in the sky she withered well,
Within her eyes the tears did swell
And in her tears the past was shown.
Of one true love that she had known.

The tears that formed did stain the glass,
Beauty if bred from pain at last"
She closed her eyes in hope for more,
"It is your heart I do adore."

Keiko Dec 2011

Response

Less eloquent but all the same;
Your words and heart are not in vain.
The lyrics that you do express,
My ears and heart they do caress.

I've never smiled so much before;
The cause of which I do adore;
Your eyes, your smile, your gentle gaze;
Each time I breathe I am amazed

That you and I do feel the same
Together we shall toss the grains
Into the sea, that grand abyss;
For fear and doubt should not exist.

As salt dissolves into the sea;
We sea the truth of what can be.