Kyle Matthew Berry

Kyle Matthew Berry Nov 2010

Your careful eyes hardly looking,
avoiding me, I believe.
I see you here, even still
they disappear...
but I really don't see you leaving.

I can feel your hands and arms warm around me
hours after you leave.
I lay there for hours and hours,
it'll be hours 'til I can sleep.
Rewind to keep you here,
I think I missed a scene.

Your careful eyes hardly looking,
avoiding me, I believe.
I kiss you and they stay still.
opening to reflections of yours and mine.

I count them when you're here with me.
the hours we spend in silence, the hours we've spent kissing.
A trance for thought, a loss for words, they blink...
Nothing to think and nothing to speak,
closed eyes now, there's nothing to see...
Our tongues entwined for the evening.

Time flies, but it doesn't mean anything,
I take my watch off to hold you closer,
even closer to me, you'll wear my ring.

Opened, closed again,
closer.
Credits rolling, the end,
closure.

By the time they open again, we lay still, only breathing.
I think we are hours past this movie, but I really hope you aren't leaving.
I couldn't ask for anything better to dream of...
when I'm next to you, smiling, soundly sleeping.

I wish you could read my mind,
but I'm not so sure you can't.
There's nothing really in this town,
I'll use that as a quiet place with you though.

Or a place for me to miss you,
miss your lips when they leave .
But your flavor slipped onto my mouth too,
so before I see you again,
in anticipation, I can bite my lip.
In a souvenir, I can taste you.

I want to be a testimonial
to your testament of love.
For now
in this town.

We are hours into some movie, we are slowly losing pattern.
My words are hopeful and your eyes are daunting, bearing every ring of Saturn.
We're in our own space, and any exit would be a fork in the road, a wrong turn.

Kyle Matthew Berry Nov 2010

Flying Together

No pretense, with words like life written on lips like wings.

Nothing could make you see the light in your eyes that I've come to need.

No mirror reflects the image in tact, but at least I can see what I want and know why I breathe,

lying before me, a reason to live and appreciate beautiful things.

Lifting in height, so we don't have to make believe

with words like love written on lips like wings.

With one kiss we're flying,

those two lights set me free.

Kyle Matthew Berry Nov 2010

From the Hip

I celebrate the silence

you spend with me.

Among the things that I sense,

you seem to be somewhere

across the void.

A lesson here that i've learned

a little bit too late.

Never trust your instincts

and don't follow hate

in this hole.

Seldom would you have guessed

I could even breathe.

I don't know who you suggest

but I know who you've been.

Ready as I aim, you fire

from the hip

across the void

in this hole.

Kyle Matthew Berry Nov 2010

Bad Chromosome

My melting for you

under the heat and pressure

is not enough to

convince you you're no better

with these precious impurities.

And I see you blur the edges

so that they aren't so jagged,

you make another mistake

and an excuse for it's namesake.

Well, I pair up my imperfections too

and with every infection on an X,

there's a Y that stands for you.

A bad chromosome.

I could listen to the sounds you make

that could burst vessels in my head to leak.

So I could hold my skull to my neck in place

but still with every rumble it would bleed.

I could **** down all your lies and fear

right to my brain, right through my ears

I'd hate to think I wouldn't have a word to say,

but what you want to take I do want to see...

just in case it's me you need.

Can you relax in this madness?

I'll take a moment, calm you down.

Can you relax in this madness?

I'll take a moment, calm you down.

Can you relax in this madness?

I'll take a moment, calm you down.

Can you relax in this madness?

I'll take a moment, calm you down.

A bad chromosome.

Kyle Matthew Berry Nov 2010

We've Been Found

I found, while walking down the street, I could love you anywhere.

With cement against my feet, in the bleeding summer heat,

where we want to be, our toes can let us go... and we'll get there.

All the time in the world to spare.

I found, with sand beneath my nails, I could love you anywhere.

With rocks against our heels, memories become stale,

and so we set sail, our song birds will let us know... when we get there.

All the time in the world to spare.

I found they tell us don't, when to the sun we stare...

but we're not going back.

All the time in the world to spare.

All the time in the world to spare.

And while walking down the street, your eyes mine do see.

And with sand between my nails, you are there in each grain.

And we'll get there.  And we'll get there.

I found each foot against the road, each beat against the night.

I found our souls against the tide, for all reason and all rhyme.

We'll walk on light.  We'll walk on light.

No matter where we go, in our hearts we'll know.

We are there.  I'm right here (we've been found).

We are there.  You're right here (we've been found).

We are there.

Kyle Matthew Berry Nov 2010

Sore Thumbs (Arm Your Ground)

Arm your ground,

you let them push you around.

All I've found is those who get you down,

baby, baby, they aren't your friends.

There was a light set to dim.

When will I see you again?

Off to the right all alone,

you spent all night on the phone.

You were fighting with him,

my hand was fanning my grin.

You looked at me with your own,

yours had the brighter glow.

With fully good intent,

"when will I see you again?"

Sore thumbs can not blend in,

"when will I see you again?"

What little we had known,

acquainted we had grown.

A puff of smoke for a friend

from a match that I had lent.

A match we made from home,

who knew what we'd become?

Sparked up with good intent,

"when will I see you again?"

All systems are go,

what have you to show?

I've not much to tell,

this is the very end.

When will I see you again?

Kyle Matthew Berry Nov 2010

Once in a while (a Song)

I'll sing a song every once in a while,

about a face that once did smile.

I'll play in tune but out of style,

play a song once in a while,

a song about the way we did kiss.

Look at the moon in the sky up above.

So far from us, how could it know any love?

Beneath the stars of which we're struck,

there are two eyes I won't give up.

And, for her, I'll play a song once in a while.

Across the sea, have no fear, I won't retreat.

That burning bridge is gone enough for me.

On the shore of which we meet,

so happy there, I will be.

And for her, I'll play a song once in a while.

With all my hope and some clothes, I hit the road

to try and find some place I can go.

But then I feel so alone,

I must return home.

And for her, I'll play a song once in a while.

I'll play a song to cherish you.

I'll play a song to remember you without having to say your name.

I'll play a song to hold onto you like you're my last breath, because I know you are.

I'll play a song because it's all I can do.

I'll play a song until I forget about you.

I'll play a song until I know I can't.