I’d rather watch you run barefoot
Through the summer grass, chasing fireflies
And pulling a monster face
To make your little sisters laugh.

Show me the way your eyes light up,
Your breath skips,
And your whole face is transformed
When a kiss catches you by surprise.

Let me see your persistent heart,
Chipped and broken,
Stopping and skipping,
But relentlessly beating back against it all.

we were the best
those warm nights,
my head on your chest,
your heartbeat so melodic,
your every move so euphoric,
I could hear the chords of your heartstrings serenading me
the song of your love, crashing against your rib cage like the waves in the sea

we were so real
so new
so innocent
the real deal
that melodic heartbeat was really the saddest song
we believed we were in heaven the whole night long
but baby, we were so wrong

I was so deceived
your love what was i thought I had received
you've made me think that that song was fake
you lied to me
you promised you would never take
my trust, my love and crush it under your foot
your foot which gifted me a kick to my gut,

I am so black and blue
I don't want to love anyone as much as I loved you
you tore me apart, kiss by meaningless kiss
love is a tedious game of hit and miss
my eyes are sealed and my lip drips burgundy
the same tone of burgundy I wanted to paint the walls of our home, now a home of uncertainty.

that home seems to be me
I am burgundy uncertainty.

~ T.T

back then there were no
people sharing ideas
on personal monitors
people didn't like
talking about
certain things
but I know for a fact
yes there was desk writing
when my mother
was ***** several
times and her mother
didn't do anything
she didn't think
anyone would lis
ten so she cut
her hair and
tried her best
I know she did
no one discussed
things like that
no one called
the police and
the police were all
men who would
probably say
she was to blame
just because she looked it
the same men who
thought you could turn
offtheflowjust
likethat
the same men who
joke about handling
human beings
innocent, stupid
uneducated
"protecting"
I would not feel safe
even though
I am a man
I do not feel safe
yet now I am here
I am proof that
she picked herself
backtogetherallthelittlepieces
and walked on
she's stronger than
any *******
musclehead
policeman I know.

Sometimes the sound of crickets late at night are tiny tears shed over a love gone bad ... The whippoorwills seem o' so very sad ...
Stars are searching for love and their place in the world ...
Bullfrogs are sharing my pain with the cry of a Barn Owl ...
Wind whispered rejection at midnight grows o' so painfully loud .. Sometimes .....

Living a life full of shadows, full of echoes
Voices from my past bellows
In my head and in my heart
They seem to want to tear me apart
To make me pay a price I don't owe
The devil put a price on my soul
He's tried to crush me
Rush me
Brush me aside
Make me hide
God's angels join in
Chasing away any friend

I'm not ment for heaven or hell
I just ride the growing swell
Until I'm dropped into the hole
Where all the unwanted souls go
The black abyss will be a welcome sight
No longer having to put up a fight
There in the darkness I'll dwell in delight
Far from hell's dogs
Or those heavenly hogs

Here, Thunder boom ,boom, booms around the sea
and lightening is a crackling flash to blind the eyes of all
an intense consuming white light in the black dark
and the thunder Booms Booms Booms echoing around our small bay
I think of the fish, and the birds roosting down the shore
it must sound like the end of all things, Mankinds final war.