They were kids I once knew
Kids my heart once loved

The lights in their eyes danced
The warmth in their touch burned

If you see it you could believe me
If I said so you wouldn't believe me

Your lips form I do
But you don't deceive me

Burning hands are everywhere
They're everywhere

Tell me everything that happened
Tell me what they looked like

They were someone I once knew
They moved forward

Did you see the shaded window
Did you see the bolted door

Are they afraid of you?
Your hands- did they touch them?

Did they seem so real to you?
Your eyes- could you see them too clearly?

It's hard to know that you're still caring
But they're out there

Now they're all dead to you
They're all gone

My heart died
And I still don't believe you

I'll love you forever
                                                 Remember the time when we were lovers?
Your smile ingrained in my mind
                                                 Your anger branded into my soul
Always so kind
                                                 You never loved me back                        
I wanted to hold you forever
                                                 You're impossible to forget
I think about you all of the time
                                                  Your first beat upon my chest
I'm so glad to love you
                                                   I wish I'd never known you
Murmurs spilling out of your sweet lips
                                                   Anger spewing from your mouth        
I tell you all of my secrets
                                                   A stranger knows all of my secrets
We're inseperable
                                                   Your back was all I could see
I love you...
                                                   ...I hate you

I'm blending into these white walls
Silence to be heard
hands claw at my lips
Shredded skin
****** words spill

Stares
At the mural on the wall

You are a breath of fresh air
With every inhale, the very essence of you is consumed
In light, you are my own star
You’re shining brightness keeps my planet alive and warm
Our magnetic fields pulling each other closer
And closer

One day, one of us will be consumed
One day, we will become one
A blinding flash as our atmosphere’s collide
e x p l o s i o n
as I am reduced to dust

You are my ocean
Your love lilts from each continent 
From shore to shore
You are the water beating down upon the rocks
And I will be worn away until I am nothing but a smooth glassy stone
Until I am nothing but a particle of dust evaporating into the air

You are my wind
Causing the wild flowers to sway in the breeze
You bring rain, feeding my hungry roots
Nourishing, and engulfing me in life
You are the spinning vortex tearing everything I know to pieces 

You are the monster under my bed
There
But not

You are the last person on earth
As we stand alone, everything else dead and dying around us
Your eyes will light with fire, and your smile will outshine the scorching sun above us
You are the only being stealing the waning oxygen from the life I know

You are the one I love
You are the one I’d die without
And the one I’m dying with

für ein herz so groß,
    aber für ein tat so klein...

for a heart so large,
   but for a deed so small...

it doesn't matter that this
is a form of imperfect
german...
                 i'm hardly going to
establish myself as a grey-mass
in Munich chanting
               football-hooligan slogans
at a match...

       but there's a sly smile on
my face...

            i know what early April
will look like...
          finishing Sienkiewicz's
the order of the teutonic knights...
krzyżacy...
              which is also a name
for that bug that moves on
pond waters... krzyżak...
                       a form of spider...

even what i began with was
in imperfect german,
       i can give you the motto
of a people
              that currently live among
you, right away,
   or what i call: the genesis of
prussia...
    
              prussians aren't exactly
germans,
                if prussians were left
alone, there, would be a
people of estonia, lithuania,
latvia, prussia,
                    kashubia,
                        and pomerania...

but let me re-iterate,
i can say this with perfect german...

           gott, mit uns!
              
just called my heart the equivalent
of a hot-air balloon,
and my brain a peanut-sized
honing device for pigeons...
             f'aaaaa'ck...
                            viva las vegas.