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TigerEyes Oct 2014
Stay still..
the fan is moving in your kitchen
rotating back and forth
look
out your window
there are flowers
the rain is falling
the sun is shining
don't go
wait..
hold your breathe...
for the next amazing moment
even for a second..
just wait...
for the smile that may happen...
while you're at a stop light
that person...
could be God.
© Krisselle S. Cosgrove
TigerEyes Oct 2014
Stay still..
the fan is moving in your kitchen
rotating back and forth
look
out your window
there are flowers
the rain is falling
the sun is shining
don't go
wait..
hold your breathe...
for the next amazing moment
even for a second..
just wait...
for the smile that may happen...
while you're at a stop light
that person...
could be God.
TigerEyes Oct 2014
Lay down your love
lay down your lies
honey you know there's no where to hide
So when we hooked up n' it was just fun
yeah, looks like you're finished/yeah, you're all done.
I laid down my love
I didn't give you excuses or lies...
the truth you saw
spoke straight into your eyes...
I guess it's over /yeah we're all done...
you were just there to have some fun...
I guess you're just one of those guy's
it's so easy for you to tell all your lies
I meet your type /each month/n' all day
n' in the end you can't look into my eyes
cause you just wanted  to have your way.

You can't have me without a ring...
So lay down your love n' do the right thing...
© 2014 Krisselle S. Cosgrove
TigerEyes Sep 2014
There's a sailor that I know
a type of guy that gives me love
Yeah, but then he picks up ~ Yeah, just he just goes...
Sailing off
to another port that he knows
Surprising me each n' every time
when he has an extra dime...
to have the ***** to up n' call..
as if nothing happened
between us ~ at all
I'm not some Yo-Yo you can play...
whenever
you decide you want to stay...
So listen carefully
to what it is ~ I have to say...
"Hey Sailor ~ Hey Sailor
Go take your ******* to another store
Cause' I'm not buying here ---
anymore---!!
Oh, Sailor don't you see
You can't ever be with me...
Yeah--
'Cause, I've bought a vowel, or two
Yeah..
I've gone n' caught a big *** clue---
of the ***** Sailor inside you---
Yeah, go ahead n' sail away
You can't ever come back n' stay
cause, Sailor -- it's over - Yeah, it's the end
You can't treat me like this again.
© 2014 Krisselle S. Cosgrove
TigerEyes Sep 2014
There is a girl
that lives on my street
she has blonde hair n' blue eyes
she beams sunshine as she greets..
all the strangers that she meets
n'
She keeps secrets to herself
about all the darkness she's ever felt
This girl's been hurt too many times
and, so she's learned to run n' hide
from those who dare to get to know
all the sweetness inside her soul...
Oh, and she's so beautiful when she's alone
keeping her quiet passage  hidden, and unknown
You caught a glimpse of her dance..
passing her window just by chance...
n' you heard her sing a song...
where you thought angels could belong
with this girl that lives on your street
who beams sunshine to all she meets
but, then carefully retreats
n' you wonder to yourself
what exactly it would take
to show her how you could make
a world for her where she felt safe.
© 2014 Krisselle S. Cosgrove
TigerEyes Sep 2014
FADE IN:

V.O.
(sultry female voice)

I'm that girl..
(you know the one)
she strolls into an Advanced Creative Writing class
wearing leopard skin boots
designer jeans
smelling like coconut
Swaggering Confidence
like she owns the room
You feel her energy
when her skin brushes up against yours
it's so electric
and, you're the guy that sits down across from her
just wishing she'd look your way
(but I don't)
my focus is on my professor.
He loves that I stare at him occasionally
as I take notes
and, it makes him blush
causing him to turn away
nervously
as if being caught...
"thinking those naughty thoughts"
I'm the girl that works really hard
but -- everything comes so easily.
Yeah,
I'm the girl that gets an A+ every time.
And -- you just might be the guy
that hates me for it.
© 2014 Krisselle S. Cosgrove
TigerEyes Sep 2014
Not to sound cynical but --
the modern woman is saying...
it's just a matter of time...
before the new guy in my life's gonna go  
yeah, he's gonna stray--
She says...
"Wow, if I had a dime is all I have to say...
What does the modern woman have to do?
Turn icy?
Turn into an ocean that's frozen blue"
She says...
"We can't turn into glass..
we'll just end up shattered n' broken
crying on our *** "
(even though they like us all soft -- and, warm)
with adoring eyes that flash up at them
saying,  "I love you Baby-Baby-Baby, over n over again..."
n' She says,
"Then they wonder why
we don't put up with their bullshi* n' all their lies..."
She says,
Let me tell you a little secret about the modern woman...
she's smart, independent, n' wise.
Yeah..
She's burned out of the megalomaniac guys
She hopes you like hoops...
cause she has a lot of ropes -- with complicated hoops...
that you get to jump on through
to prove that it's worth her time
for her to even be with you
She says,
"I hope you can run fast -- n' that you like the chase...
cause baby, baby -- you're in for one hell of a race."

She'll move on -- yeah, she'll be long gone
if you've done her wrong...

Because she owns her time...
she owns
her own dimes...
she knows her worth...
She's knows that she's a beautiful Goddess..
that lives with Joy as she walks this Earth.
© 2014 Krisselle S. Cosgrove

For my sisters...
TigerEyes Sep 2014
She wears her imaginary veil during the day
it's the imaginary wall she puts up to keep her safe
from the harmful words she might hear strangers say
if they get too close when they come her way
Yeah---
She'll run/she'll hide/she won't stay...
Charlotte grew up in the jungle
yeah, in the Africa wild...
She knew the language of the forrest rain...
the sound monkey's make when they're in pain...
or, the roar of a beautiful Lion saying hello...
offering its golden mane --
as her own personal pillow
She wishes now that she'd run faster...
that she could have escaped her capture...
now, living in a different kind of jungle
she does not know, or -- understand...
(it's hard for her to comprehend)
the words she hears sound so foreign
dreaming at night of returning to the jungle
she longs to hear the language within a forrest rain.
© 2014 Krisselle S. Cosgrove
TigerEyes Sep 2014
The war on hate continues on
fueled by corporations around the world
they're sticky like honey...
they're in love with the sound of...
"cha-ching, money---"
it starts with a house at the end of a street..
spreading with rain...
trampled by boots...
it gathers more pain
to leave its next stain
on snow colored white
crimson red
staining the dead..
It may have all started with a hateful stare...
an unkind word...
perhaps, a spiteful glare
enough for it to fuel the fire
(an ego desire)
to right the wrong of what had been done
unjust in the eyes of the hater
    revenge that had to be carried out..
sooner rather than later...
the circle is now complete
spinning round n' round...
with the violent sound
of bombs ripping, and tearing
flesh on the ground
Meanwhile the Dow is up...
n' all the fat cats on Wallstreet
are just living it up...
so happy they cashed in
knowing when it would all begin...
before it was too late...
to make money on all the hate.
© 2014 Krisselle S. Cosgrove
TigerEyes Sep 2014
Between one night, and the next
between the silence of a hush
you've left my cheeks with a blush 
n' I hear your gentle foot steps walk out my door
n' my body still aches for more---
I still feel your warm breath---
melting/twisting me into you
I am your fire ~ You are my flame
This magic we make has no name---
You find yourself..
cooling me next to water  ~  cooling me by the shore
You leave me wanting
wanting...
more n' more--

Yeah..
beneath the twilight of disappearing stars
You always say ... you won't be far--
before you go, yeah, before you leave---
You whisper these words right into me...
"Oh Baby, please can't you see--
My love -- I won't be long - I will come back -
you rock my world/you blow my mind/I don't think---
I've met your kind--
(Chorus)
You begin where I start---
I love your magic/I love your mind
I dig your body
You're my kind---
Don't you know
you blow my mind--
Yeah, you begin where I start--
  n' you're the magic in my heart---"

(n'   ~ I know)

Between the stars that fade away  ~ between the twilight on another day,

Between one night, and the next---

between the twilight where our love is swept--
That's where all our magic is safely kept.
© 2014 Krisselle S. Cosgrove
TigerEyes Sep 2014
Floating between darkness/floating between stars
Earl lived in the backwoods/
…with snow on the hills
he sharpened his knives
while counting his pills..
his dark blackened eyes..
would give way to chills..
yeah, they were shaping, and twisting so many lies…
he liked to get ******/he liked to get high..
Earl liked to do
whatever he pleased…
and, it grew n’ grew
like a darkened disease…

There once lived a girl
her name was Nadine
An innocent girl
just barely eighteen…
She knew not of wolves
that lived in her woods…

While out on
her walk…
with eyes on his prey…Earl knew in a moment
what he had to stalk.

No one in town knows where Nadine went…
Except.... Earl...he knows ...
how Nadine's days are spent.
© 2014 Krisselle S. Cosgrove
TigerEyes Sep 2014
Peaceful warriors know all to well
when it’s time to walk away
from all the hatred n’ hell
they’ve seen it before
Yeah- a long time ago…
or, it happened today—
on the news in some way…
we’ve seen it again, and again
it’s a repeat of days
in countries a blaze ..
n' it never ends with the hatred it sends
for those dangerous souls with their need to control
to spread their hatred again, and again—-

It’s as simple as this…to know peace
n’  bliss..
You don’t need to be right—
to let go of a fight….
You just need to know
that we all belong
that we can all learn to share ~ n'  all learn to care
there's enough for all of us here
No,
We don't need anymore tears--

that peace is the way
and, it can all begin today
if we let go of the need to be right—-
yeah, yeah—-then
we don’t have to fight—

If Martin Luther were alive today…
I know what he’d say..
with millions behind—
his words would ring true  ~ his words would be kind…
he’d say peace is the way—
for the world - for today…
Yeah, that’s what he’d say…
peace is the way….
for the world - for today.

You don’t need to be right…
to walk away from a fight—
© 2014 Krisselle S. Cosgrove
TigerEyes Sep 2014
Peaceful warriors know all too well
when it’s time to walk away
from all the hatred n’ hell
they’ve seen it before
Yeah- a long time ago…
or, it happened today—
on the news in some way…

It’s as simple as this…to know peace
to know bliss..
You don’t need to be right—
to let go of a fight….


If Martin Luther were alive today…
Marching on Washington
with millions behind—
his words would ring true  ~ yes,  they’d be  kind…
he’d say peace is the way—
for the world - for today…
Yeah, that’s what he’d say…
peace is the way….
for the world - for today.

You don’t have to be right…
to walk away from a fight—
© 2014 Krisselle S. Cosgrove
TigerEyes Sep 2014
Fair weathered friends steal your soul, they choke your life
they **** you fast/they take your breath
The good news is ...
it's a quick death.
They're only there when your life is up...
You've made a name/You've climbed the chain
perhaps you've even gained a little fame...
When your life goes down...
they turn around/without a sound...
until...
you get that call
When you've had a spill/Yeah you've had a fall...
It's the voicemail that says it all
He hesitates before the loss...
before he decides to tell you,
"Go -*F off"
I have to spend more time with my wife
n' you know/ I was just play'n
You were never going to be a part of my life
(it cuts/it hurts/as he twists the knife)
You see my friend..
this has to end n' btw, you're now blocked...
I had to reassure my wife
that your calls have stopped.
© 2014 Krisselle S. Cosgrove
TigerEyes Sep 2014
He sat without legs, crutches by his side
not far
from a Hollywood Golden Star...
(the Hollywood Walk of Fame)
where I wished with all my might
that I could have written his name
as I observed people hurrying on by
without any kind of "Hello", or "Hi"
(or, a simple smile)
they just moved around...
not even noticing to look at him - or, look down
feet moving quickly past this legless man
looking tired, and worn
his grocery bags were all ripped n' torn
I kneeled down right there...
asking him if he needed help to go somewhere...
but The Unknown Star
looked bravely into my eyes
and, he just smiled...
Replying,
"No, thank you. I just have five more miles."
© 2014 Krisselle S. Cosgrove
TigerEyes Sep 2014
The eyes behind the camera reveal truth hidden in the shadows
in foreign countries like ****** Alley.
A story to be told--
through the camera that I hold...
men,  women, and children running for freedom...
how their fate was sealed..
because the truth is revealed ...
about how they heard the shots
the bullets coming/they heard the sound
their arms spread out like eagles/as they hit the silent ground
one bullet to the heart was their taker
that made them meet their maker...
Flesh n' blood like you n' me
(the shutter release is clicking away/whirring away)
capturing the stillness of these souls on this rainy Winter day...
Why does freedom
have to look this way?
With open mouths n' open eyes
they've been cheated from their lives.
n' the eyes behind the camera choke back tears...
in ****** Alley...
that a bullet took them away like a souvenir.
© 2014 Krisselle S. Cosgrove
TigerEyes Sep 2014
My Gemini man understands
everything that I am
n' when we are together
his touch feels like a magic feather
I get chills up n' down my spine
cause he whispers words so soft, and kind
n' he appreciates what's on my mind...
n' he listens to what I say...
I appreciate all his ways...
I didn't know that love could feel like this...
there's no drama / just peaceful bliss
Oh, how I love his tender kiss.
n' he loves the way I dance n' sway
to the music he he gently plays
knowing every note inside my soul
the riffs are hot ~ like awesome
rock n' roll
Yeah,
My Gemini Man feels like home...
n'  I know I'll never feel alone
whenever he's around
time fly's at the speed of sound
So this is the song that I'm sending him...
until I'm back in his loving arms, again.
© 2014 Krisselle S. Cosgrove
TigerEyes Sep 2014
I am /falling down my dear...
Please catch me
I am falling down/I am scared
can you please wipe away my tears
I have never been one to be afraid/I have never been one to know fear
I /can't see through all this rain
I /can't see through all this mist
I/just want your love'n touch
I /just want your love'n kiss
I/don't understand all this hate
(strangers)
I /don't know these people n' their hate/to twist my life n' fate
I/am so lost  here without you
Please paint a rainbow with pinks n' blues...
(because)
I/am used to bright sunshine
I/am used to love that is holy n' divine
Yes, I'm used to only love...
that my angels send to me above
I/am falling
n'
I/am calling
won't you please..
comfort me with all these foreign feelings/with all these foreign fears
while you take away all my sadness/while you wipe away my tears.
© 2014 Krisselle S. Cosgrove
TigerEyes Sep 2014
There's been a shadow haunting me
that I don't really ever want to see
and I've come to a point in my life, where...
I believe ~ acceptance has got to be the key

and inside the stillness
of all this darkness
there's a melody within the shadow
    musical notes ...
being played out on a grande piano

This shadow is a part of my soul
n' I feel that I just need to let go...
this burning fire that's a part of me
I've decided ... I can't control

... if I just stop for a moment to see
and hear...
then  I can finally wipe away these tears
and, accept that it's all okay
that I was born to be this way.
© 2014 Krisselle S. Cosgrove
TigerEyes Sep 2014
The tiger is strong in character, strong in body
strong in mind...
they are amazing animals
one of a kind.

The tiger utilizes complete follow through with each strike with the intention of penetrating and destroying his or, her target.

What happens to the Tiger when they get scared?
Do they know fear at all
when their back gets pushed up against a wall?

I know a Tiger...
She's a fighter...
Her head has been held under water
Yet. Still.
She remains strong
She reminds herself that she's someone's daughter
Royal & True
These are the attributes of her
She has been scarred, and mistreated..
but by no means is she defeated...
Her eyes have a speck of gold that flickers in the night...
they light up at the sign of danger
she uses her keen sense of hearing along with her sight

No. A tiger does not know fear.
She doesn't weep. She has no tears.

She does not fear, does not hesitate, and does not regret.
And..
You'll recognize her the moment we've met.
© 2014 Krisselle S. Cosgrove
TigerEyes Sep 2014
I'm spinning around
I'm moving at the speed of sound...
I dance
I prance
I listen to Delerium
In a trance
I jump up in the air like I'm skating on ice..
Imagine a "V"
I touch my toes ~ it feels nice
Energy pulsating through my veins
I'm spinning around...
I don't ever want to touch the ground
I go for a run
when I feel spun
(To the a** hole shrink that said I'd never be William Faulkner)
That's not my style
that's not who I want to be...
n' you're never going to know
what it's like to be free
As I'm spinning around
My vision is clear/I truly see...
You're not in my body..
You're not me.
© 2014 Krisselle S. Cosgrove
TigerEyes Sep 2014
Tumbling out of bed after a long night out
(my head hurts)
after hanging out with friends at Beach *** Burts...
I put on my office face that morning like a pair of worn out shoes
I'm sad that day/I've got the blues
I let out a sigh
somehow managing to survive the 405
In my car I down my Starbucks
spilling it down my dress shirt
I'm mumbling to myself "***"...
I put a blazer on to cover it up
My boss cheerfully says "Good Morning"
inside my head all I hear is...
(Oh, please ...Shut the f-up!)
Wandering to my cubby I find my spot
pushing papers around all day
it's 5 o'clock n' my brain is shot...
(I should work out tonight)
Instead I find myself numbing up again
because the rat race seems like it will never end
(I need to write that book - I need to write that script)
I need a vacation...
I wanna check out - I wanna get ripped
All of this responsibility feels like such a burden
(I feel like Tyler Durden)
I've got car payments now/and rent to pay
(Do I have a choice...
Do I have a say?)
~Paradise has a price~
to live in the Golden State...
(I'm surviving)
I have to put food on my plate.
© 2014 Krisselle S. Cosgrove
TigerEyes Sep 2014
Selah Salah was an ancient Hebrew Princess
she wanders along
Yeah, she sings along the shoreline all day long
an ocean ghost who once lived long ago
with long blonde hair
she tosses red roses up in the air...
catching them with her hands
her eyes glimmer blue, and gold like she secretly understands
all the quiet children playing in the sand
building sand castles with their little hands...
secrets they cannot tell
because a big person told them
they'd go straight to hell...
So she places a rose she's blessed near their feet
n' she says a prayer that this will keep
them safe from harm
asking angels to watch over them while they sleep.
© 2014 Krisselle S. Cosgrove
TigerEyes Sep 2014
There are ****'s at my door again
Yeah, yeah, yeah--
She-she-she-bop Shalom...
I wish they'd leave me alone
So what would Jesus bomb...
forcing all of us to get along?
Would he eradicate the hatred in my neighbors face?
Screaming at me with so much hatred I wanted mace...
Would he bomb the self-righteous
the ones with black and white checkered brains
to release those they're holding down in chains?
Yeah, yeah, yeah--
She-she-she-bop Shalom...
I think you need to move to Rome...
so you can all just leave me the f* alone
Or, I need to move to Malibu
where I never have to see you...
Yeah, there are ****'s at my door again
with clubs, and guns to take down the green eyed girl
she's too happy/ they must crush her world...
Lord Jesus, won't you please drop a bomb on them...
so I never have to hear from them again?
These angry men with hatred in their eyes..
telling gossip/telling lies
Yeah, yeah, yeah--
She-she-she-bop, Sholom
please go away...
just leave the green eyed girl alone.
© 2014 Krisselle S. Cosgrove
TigerEyes Sep 2014
You don't have to give yourself away
because you know
that you can leave/ yes, you can go...
you're worth more than all the gold
your a diamond to behold..
don't you know...
So hold on tight you know your future is more than bright
this darkness that has come across
will soon end/yes, it shall pass...
just hold on
the darkness will soon be gone...
and you know..
you will go on.
© 2014 Krisselle S. Cosgrove
TigerEyes Sep 2014
All we have now is the moment to extend our hand
with kindness toward humanity to understand
that we are more than what we see
stars on earth for humanity
shine your light up toward the sky
so it's reflected in your eyes
© 2014 Krisselle S. Cosgrove

Finished...
TigerEyes Sep 2014
So many lost souls passing through the station
they've lost their faith in their youth/they've lost their faith in their nation
with broken angel wings
they turned up the wrong road/they've lost their way
they've found themselves silent with nothing to say...
they feel like their life is really over/it's finally through
n' this whole time they've been the fool
now they're at the mercy of men with large arms in uniform
all because these broken angels could not conform
so they curl up in white blankets, and sleep on cold steel
waiting for their court date to make their plea
to the judge that will look down on them
while these angels with broken wings/utter these words..
Oh, Dear Lord Jesus not again
the angel looks up with teary eyes
thinking this is it/this is the end
"My angel wings are finally lost...
Oh, and at what a price/what a cost"
© 2014 Krisselle S. Cosgrove
TigerEyes Sep 2014
Watch me fly through the sky
high, high, high
My back's pushed up against the wall
it's do or die, die, die...
Sorry haters I've got to fly
high, high, high..
I'm not hanging around here
I won't drink your cheap beer
This girl likes diamonds, and roses...
European Yachts made by pro's
Yeah, so watch me fly
up in the blue sky
so high, high, high
it's do -- or, die, die, die..
I won't let anyone take me down
go ahead if you're dressed like clowns
I'll knock you out in one punch
Cause,
I've been blessed with a vision/Yeah, a hunch
that it's my time to fly
high, high, high...
Cause it's do,
or, Baby
die---die---die--
Gonna fly
high, high, high.
© 2014
TigerEyes Sep 2014
She was a dreamer during the day, and a vampire at night
seeing ghosts around every corner in the light
She tried to wish them away for another day
closing her eyes reaching her hands toward the sky
sometimes falling down on her knees/down on her knees
on the pine scented ground she’d pray
whenever there were rainy clouds the sound of grey
wishing/wishing
them away
all around she’d try to listen, or look for signs in tree’s
even in the way her red flowers blew in the breeze
Yeah, she was a dreamer during the day, and a vampire at night
she tried to scare the ghosts away to take away her fright
wishing them away/wishing them away
for another rainy day/for another rainy day
All she heard was the sound of grey
Please take these ghosts away/that’s what she’d always say
sweep them away/sweep them away
I don’t want deal with them today
not today/not today…
Yeah, that’s what she would always say--
whenever/whenever/ she heard the sound of grey.
© 2014
TigerEyes Aug 2014
You're my river that flows under the bright sunshine
I'm so happy I get to call you mine
A lotus flower that you carry along
floating on your river where I belong
You carry me over mountains under a midnight sky
during a white full moon
shining with all the stars in the Universe/in Heaven so high
You're my river that never ends
even as it twists, and bends
you gently carry me to the blue ocean
with so much loving devotion
Floating this lotus flower safely along
you're my river, Baby...
in your heart where I know I belong...
making me complete/you make me strong.
© 2014 Krisselle S. Cosgrove
TigerEyes Aug 2014
on ones back
under the stars
on a hill
with you…
smelling the scent of freshly cut grass
gazing at a butterfly fluttering nearby
I would give you daisies and roses

I would love that while feeling….

the way your arms curl around my hips
and the gentle touch of your lips
all over my body.
© 2014
TigerEyes Aug 2014
When we were
touching hearts I thought
it would never end
now this is the only message I can send....
It is the one to say you touched my soul
I hope in some way it helped us grow
I'm writing the next Chapter of my Life
which feels like a message in an empty bottle
tossed into the ocean
A message just to say when we were touching hearts
I thought it would never end
now, honey...
this is the only message I can send.
Now my heart is floating somewhere in an ocean, or a river...
Lost.
Floating waiting to be found.
© 2014
TigerEyes Jul 2014
Daddy: I did not know you well/except for the suits you wore
they were always well tailored in the color blue
would it be okay if I told you how much I miss you...?
You always smelled of Black Jack gum
I remember running up to you
when you came home sometimes you smelled of ***...
n' I was barely four
but I remember uttering the words, "gum-gum"
Daddy, I loved you so much...
why did you have to leave/why did we lose touch?
I loved the letters you used to send
when I left for college
I thought my life would end...
but you wrote humorous lines
about long dog your wiener schnitzel pet...
you always made up stories about some guy named "Chet"
I'm so sorry I didn't get to say goodbye--
I wished and wished...
the day I found out you had died...
it was a bad joke/a terrible lie...
I love you Daddy...if you can hear me up there
I hope Tigger n' Lion's are fly'n everywhere
just like the stories you told me every night...
before you tucked me in bed with my baby bear...
n' you brushed my hair...
you always said, "Papa loves you...
Tiger, you sleep tight...
now you just  go...
n' let your dreams take flight"
TigerEyes Jul 2014
She was a ghost in the day
her mother drank her days away
Always trying to do her best
she got the highest grades on all her tests.
Thinking she'd never be that way
covering up her pain with smiles all day...
Her mother did get better
but never wrote that important letter
saying sorry for all the pain
that left her daughter with disdain
for the mother that was never there
all because she didn't care.
So the little girl with big brown curls..
the one that became a ghost
became the thing she'd hated most
And so the cycle began again
the little ghost had a girl
this time with big blonde curls
the mother took away the girl
treating her to the whole wide world
the little ghost became very sad
for all the things she never had..
her wrists began to drip with blood
as her soul began to drift above..
and the mother never understood
why the ghost went out this way
choosing that cold December day
(her anticipated 16th birthday)
Because all the ghost ever wanted
was to be loved, cherished, and acknowledged..
she missed her baby girl with big blonde curls...
and, glad that she would have the world.
The Karmic twist seemed so outlandish..
that she decided to just vanish.
© 2014
TigerEyes Jul 2014
We lost her at the train station on a busy Saigon afternoon
her hand had slipped out of fathers when she lost her red balloon
Searching desperately day, and night for months that did not end
one day we found her favorite little doll where the river twists, and bends
I heard a little bird sing a song while sitting in a tree
this is what I heard her say while she sang her song to me...

"I watch you father everyday, and I miss you very much
your voice, and words always had such a gentle touch
It is cold now with the winter snow you ought to bundle up
please know that I am near because I like to cheer you up.
I see you through the window, and it makes me feel so very sad
that you blame yourself because you lost my little hand....
and, you make yourself feel so guilty, and incredibly so bad--
I'm the little bird that sits in your tree....
I sing for you everyday.
I hope you hear the song I sing to you,
from my heart to you ... from me."
© 2014
TigerEyes Jul 2014
He said /I've got to let you go/there's just too many things I don't know
we just don't see eye to eye on things/n'  I don't know what our future brings/
seems like we're up all night/n' then all you want to do is fight

She said/ why don't you listen to me/why can't I make you see/that I don't like it when you tell me lies/cause then all you do is run n'  hide/like I've gone n' hurt your pride/remember walk'n on the beach n' sand/while we were hold n' hands/those are the times I miss/the way we used to kiss

He said/ I've got a lot of things to do/before there can be me n' you/see it's hard to be a man/I don't think you understand/I've got make a plan/n' I've got to let you go/there are just too many things I don't understand.
TigerEyes Jul 2014
The front office lady that looked like a man as she handed over her belongings.  She remembered the man-lady's plump hotdog like fingers as her iPhone was pressed into her small, and delicate hand. One phone call allowed. With barely any battery charge left. Everyone she knew was busy at work back home. Scrambling to think of someone, anyone, she called her dry cleaner. Ring. Ring. Ring. A cheerful female voice answers, "He-roe, Sunshine Dry Creaning, how may help?" She nervously spoke, "Uhh, yeah this is-- Taylor. I need you to get me out of this place where I'm at". A pause. "Tay-loe? You have ticket? I can no barely hear." Click. The man-lady with fat fingers wearing man pants with a man shirt bellowed loudly, "We can't let you leave unless you reach someone on the phone!" Miraculously, the young girl's cousin twice removed in Kansas, five thousand miles away, picks up the next call. Hot dog fingers looks angry as she watches the young girl drag her belongings down a well maintained flowery garden path.  The iron gate squeaks open, and crashes loudly behind her. Her nerves feel shot, and she wonders how, or, even if she'll make it home, alive.  In the hot desert 120 degree sun she juggles a large water bottle in one hand as she drags a large melting trash bag on the lava like-desert pavement. She keeps having to run back to retrieve shampoo bottles. Stolen toothbrushes. Scattered clothes. Determined. She keeps walking with her garbage bag, and a single suitcase bumping along the gravel road.  An old beat-up station wagon slows down, and stops next to her. A car door swings open, and the young girl climbs inside.

Someone hands her a cold beer. The hot air from the open window burns her face as her hair blows carelessly in the air. They speed down a lonely desert highway located somewhere in, Nowhere, CA.
© 2014
Inspired by Raymond Carver's short story's. It's the start of something - I'm just not sure what - right now.
TigerEyes Jul 2014
I had only known you for one week.  It was a brief encounter. You said, "Remember, what I told you?" as if you were talking down to a child of five with strawberry ice cream dripping down the front of a white dress. You, the mocking bully, pushed your finger into my chest to shove me down onto the playground of life. Your accusations of condemnation that I would fail at everything I tried to accomplish. I imagined you peering over me while sneering, "Good luck with that!", sarcastically, before you hung up the phone. There was a brief silence. Oh, how angry and frightened you must feel to witness the light I seek while you cry inside all the dark rooms of your soul.
I hope you find peace, soon.
© 2014
TigerEyes Jul 2014
In my home town
in the country/by the sea
near the shore/by the tree's
there was a place/I used to run
where I would laugh/where I had fun
I was five/I felt free
I used to chase the bumble bee's
We had a farm/we had a barn
there were chickens/there were kittens
I used to watch them play with yarn
I had pet dogs/I had pet frogs
I used to carve my name on logs
in my home town
in the country/by the sea
near the shore/by the tree's
I loved the wind/I loved the breeze
I loved the sky/I loved the sea
I jumped so high/ I touched the sky
when I was young/when I ran free
TigerEyes Jul 2014
I don't know you anymore
you're just an old phone number
on my floor
don't come knocking on my door
cause baby, baby,
you had your chance
just the other night /when we danced
don't think I'm sitting around here
wait'n for you
like some love sick cowgirl/sing'n the blues..
No, I got news for you, baby
n' this is for sure/this ain't no maybe
I got my red boots on/n' my tight blue t-shirt...
n' I'm out dance'n tonight
wear'n your favorite short red skirt
you know how I can flirt...
n' I've left you in the dust/I've left you in the dirt
cause, baby, baby
I don't know you anymore
you're just an old phone number on my floor
I'm out dance'n tonight with some new guy...
n' I'm in love with his blue eyes
No, I won't be home tonight
I think this time I got it right
this one holds me close/he holds me tight
yeah,  looks like we'll be up all night.
© 2014
TigerEyes Jul 2014
I haven't met you yet
but your eyes were so dark, and wild
your thoughts were sparked with fire...
like those of a mystery held inside a child
you uttered something about Kepler
or Shakespeare, perhaps...
I watched your soft lips moving
and, I knew I was in love
that we...
were in love.
TigerEyes Jul 2014
How easy it's been for you to discard me
conversations lasting
for hours until half past three
You, a faded ghost now
I watched you slip out my bedroom window
slowly...
leaving me behind
a crushing wall of silence
except for the sound of my own heart beating
and, the wet tears on my face
I hear my breath
in-between my sighs
I know that I am still alive...
and, in the quiet hours when the moon is full  
bright, and high in a starry midnight sky
when I gaze outside my bedroom window
I'm reminded of our ghost love
disappearing as the sun begins to rise
and, I think of you.
Jul 2014 · 413
"Equanimity"
TigerEyes Jul 2014
I will remain calm no matter what you say
You cannot take my breathe away
on any given day
You cannot take my spirit, or the way I love to laugh...
you cannot take my favorite color from me
or the way I love to see
the beautiful people in this world
that form the holiness of my humanity.
TigerEyes Jul 2014
I set the table for seven
for dinner at eight
telling all my demons n' an angel
"please don't be late"
dress was casual but I said let's have some fun
let's see who can out do the other one
So there's a knock on my door at seven thirty...
it's my first demon guest n' he looks nasty n' *****
I have to hose the dude off before shaking his hand
He introduces himself as he swaggers on in
"Nice joint ya got my name is, Pan"
The other demons finally showed up...
There was Guilt
n' Shame
Anger of course
Grief came along
Sadness too shuffling on by
(looking Oh/so high)
singing a sad song
about how he didn't belong
I cut them off n' said before we begin...
you've been guilt festing me
"like I have sinned"
I'd like to announce you're all going to hell
when my angel here rings this bell
Sorry I must send you away tonight
n' where you're heading
there ain't much light
you've all been a big pain in my a**
cheers to you
(as I held up my glass)
I bid you goodnight for the rest of my life
You've served not one purpose..
just a whole lot of strife.
© 2014
TigerEyes Jul 2014
The peasant girl wandered toward the Queen
she'd only read about her in magazines
The Queen's voice was kind yet strong
still the peasant girl thought something's wrong
she thought "there's no way that I belong,"
instead the Queen gave her a diamond stone...
ordering the peasant girl toward her throne
When she sat down the Queen bowed her head
saying, "You've always belonged up here instead"
The peasant girl began to cry
upset that it was just a lie..
looking fiercely into her eyes...
"Tell me what is it that you see
that I could be as great as thee?"
The Queen answered thoughtfully...
"I see your lovely graceful elegance"
"I see your fine, and great intelligence"
"I see your kind, and aristocratic gentleness"
I see that you are really me..
and, it's time to claim your dignity.
© 2014
TigerEyes Jun 2014
He'll take a new shape
(you won't recognize him)
except his tongue will be forked
just like a snake
his eyes might be blue
or, perhaps they'll be brown
he'll say that he loves you
this time around.
He's into his power
(to keep you down)
he loves it when...
you cry like a clown.
He promises to make you
"a shooting star"
he'll lift up your hopes
that your dreams will go far.
He'll accuse you of things
that you would never do
because when he looks in the mirror...
he see's only you.
© 2014
TigerEyes Jun 2014
I'm floating in on a razor edge of light
it's curving
bending
I see a rainbow of colors
reaching to touch them
my hand pushes through a wall
I enter a room...
I hear "pattering"
What is that sound?
The view is so strange down here.
I'm running from the little people now
children of the corn
(nephews, and nieces)
being given free reign to catch me
they want to hang me upside down by my tail.
I'm hiding under a bench now
smelling the stench of cheap perfume...
I listen to Aunt Bee ***** about the time
she loaned me five dollars
along with her beater gas guzzling pig car
that I returned to her on empty
when I was 21
I still can't believe you're all here...
(we haven't talked to each other in years)
I wasn't supposed to talk to that family member
because you hated them for this reason -- or that...
I forget
I'm making a run across the room
panting..
I skid across the slippery hardwood floors, and tumble
rolling up on my small belly...
I sniff Uncle Hank's shoes
they remind me of fine leather, and expensive cigars...
he's reaching down to pet me
I'm licking his fingers...
they taste like the fried chicken he just ate
he's pushing the hair out of my eyes
patting my head, and smiling -- I hear him say,
"Good puppy"
I always liked him...
he never complained about anything.
© 2014
TigerEyes Jun 2014
Eye of Horus
I face the north
Hale the angels
I raise the torch
A pinch of salt...
  A silver moon
Dragon's blood ..
I sing a tune..
I dance for him,
in the room...
I love the sin...
where I start
he begins
stretching arms
wanting more,
  ecstatic charms.
© 2014
TigerEyes May 2014
I was once an old '36 Ford truck driven by a very well loved man
who's face lit up so brightly carrying his tackle box of bate n' hooks
with his grandchildren by his side, and fishing poles in his hand
I loved the sound of their sweet voices when they'd climb onto my back
I carried them safely home, along with the salmon held inside their sacks
I'm very old and rusty now, but I think of them on summer days
as the sun glimmers in the distance on familiar seashore bays,
while listening to great grandchildren laughing so happily at play.
Dedicated to my Grandpa & that old 1936 Ford truck

© 2014
TigerEyes May 2014
The love story fades in on a big bright moon
it tells the story of me n' you
it begins with a single star  
when we split in two
n' the angels said a prayer...
as we blazed on through
that explains the melody of me n' you
when two stars began to dance...
out of the blue
two hearts beating the same notes to a song
two hearts meeting that know they belong
spinning & twirling all around...
together we make our own special sound
beneath a bright sky of twinkling stars
we sing our song
we play our tune
that we know by heart...
beneath the moon
it's called...
the melody of me n' you.
© 2014
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