Emerald shoots
With golden crowns
Obsidian heads
Rising from topaz ground

Ghosts from the past
Haunt your present day
Phantoms from the future
Over run your brain
It's enough to drive you insane

Can you hear
Can you see
All of the ghosts
The ghosts that haunt your dreams

Do you understand
Your rights and your wrongs
The mistakes that fuel these specters' haunting songs
The rights and good will
That almost drive them away
No
You can't
You don't
You won't
You want them to stay

Hearts are for people
Hearts break
Hearts crack
So I'm glad I'm an alien
This way nothing gets stolen
My organs are intact
Just as I left them in fact
Dopamine doesn't invade my brain
There's no need to play silly games
So I'm glad I'm an alien
This way I feel no pain

Somebody catch my breath
Spewing from my lips
Lifeless and cold
Please save my last breaths
Bury them with me like gold
So that one day
I may once again use them

Green comes in waves
Rolling over the ground
Slinking through the trees
Hiding in between branches
Meant to be buried in snow
It's too warm
To be winter
There is no cold
There is no white
There is no grey
Only green

A Christmas without snow
Is like a diamond without coal
Incomplete
Nonexistent

Sparkles and love
Dreams come true
That sounds less like me
More like you

Where's the dragons
The war
The grime and gore

What fun is there without blood lust
What excitement without death and deciet
Shadowed intent
Shattered goal

What fun is it without kings or queens that must be overthrown
Deciding who's head to cut off as they sit alone

The protagonist a prodigy
Strong and young
Filled with burning rage for what cannot be undone

The villain cruel
Living in darkness
In a world lacking color

What fun is it to always have peace and kindness rule the land
To always have the hero win
Save the day let's go and play
Clearly now evil shan't threaten again

Ocassionally the antagonist must win
Create seas of blood
Darken the skies with flocks of crows
Come to feast on the rotten corpses of their enemies

Ocassionally you must let happy endings die
To let excitement live

Useless
A *doll
A broken toy
There must be something
Anything
To help
To *fix

Stormy eyes
Wore a disguise
Hid everything inside
Time to time
To feel relief
She'd think about her coming sleep
Not now she said
Not yet
Her pain was growing stronger
Now there's nothing left
Finally she thought
As she took her final breath

Our minds are corrupted
Our hearts are dull
Our souls have been taken
Far beyond a wall
We are stopped far away
No one thinks its okay
So secrets we keep
We lie to ourselves
For no reason other
Than people think we'll go to hell

One in a million
Everyone wants to be a billionaire
Perfect white teeth
Perfectly combed hair
Perfect clothes
Perfect car
Terrible ending
Perfect start

A gunshot
That your body caught
Fell to the ground
A ringing sound
Pool of blood
A heavy thud
Empty eyes
Silent cries
Wasn't ready
Hold me steady
Flashing light
This isn't right
Sirens screaming
No more dreaming

No empathy
No love
Just hate
Just pain
Where your heart was supposed to grow
Only darkness glows

Ideas flow
Rushing like a river
Rushing around our heads
We write to let that river escape
Always another
Shall take its place

If you're lost
I'll lead you home
If you're lost
I'll lead the way
If you're lost
I'll help all I can
If you're lost
I'll follow you
If you're lost
I'll be lost too

I'm not a misfit
I'm not a nerd
I'm a person
A person that wants to hear
A person that wants to be heard

Can't wait to turn eighteen
Get out of here
Go follow my dreams

Can't wait to turn twenty-four
Have my masters
Get out of college
Get a job

Cant wait to turn thirty
Finally settle down
Tons in my bank account

I simply can not wait another day
To plan my life
My back up plans

I simply can not wait
For you to let me go
No
I must prepare
I must leave
I must live

For a slight of hand
You may be found
In the forest
Birds chirping all 'round
Stabbed through the heart
Tied to the ground

In the moonlight
One tiny movement
The subtle swaying
Of a blade of grass
A tiny sign
That all was fine
So with long silver hair
Twinkling voices and skin fair
They danced
In the moonlight

In the moonlight
A giant gust of wind swept the ground
The vigorous shaking
Of every leaf and branch
A sign
That nothing was alright
So with long silver hair
Twinkling armor and blades bared
They fought
In the moonlight

From lovers
To warriors
In a minutes time
All could stop
At the drop of a dime
In the moonlight

Drip
Drip
Drop
Onto the floor
Have you seen this before?
The cuts and burns?
Scars and bruises?
Have you noticed?
Have you seen?
Did you think you could end my suffering?
No my torture
It never ends
This pain
Is my prison

I'll rip your body from your head
And if you're not quite dead
I'll stab your heart
Run it through
Do not worry
It's not the worst I could do

Jerry
Jerry
Mario cart
Playing with his flippers
Jack is back
Septic slap
Bow-tie in your feathers
Now reduced
To a pair of boots
Long gone is your penguin song
Brydan misses you
And so he cries
Down
Down
Down
On your bed of ice

We carried Johnny home
Past the sycamore tree
A bullet sized hole apparent in his chest
A scarlet blanket covering his breast
A trail of red on grey stone
Followed Johnny home
Up to the door we marched poor Johnny
Just a child was he
We carried Johnny to his home up in the mountainside
His mother waiting there
Her face pale and scared
We carried Johnny home to his mother in the mountains
Hardly a word could he speak
He said I love you mum but I must go
I must go back down that road
Past the sycamore tree
For I can fight for myself and everyone else
And none shall fight for me
There Johnny lay
his fierce words ringing in everyone's minds
His mother reached down and gently shut his eyes
She said
Burry him in the battle field
Forever there he shall lie
Fighting for those who walk on earth
For the only peace hell have is if he's doing something great
So we carried Johnny down back past the sycamore tree
To lay poor Johnny to rest
The scarlet blood gone from his chest
Musket laid 'cross his breast
People wept
For that lost boy
For Johnny
Another child lost to the war
Bound to protect those who are in need
Bound to protect those he can
Bound in death and blood to the promise he made us all

You aren't a failure
Just because you fail
You don't break bones
Just because you fall
You don't die
Just because your heart stops

I'm a kitchen sink
A kitchen sink that fills and spills
A kitchen sink that washes everything away
A kitchen sink that is stationary
Cannot move
A kitchen sink that is silent
Save for the whisper of water running
Save for the silent protests of agony
When dishes are thrown
When it is filled
I'm a kitchen sink tears in the form of a leaking faucet
Calm and silent
Stationary and unnoticed

I'm leaving behind the fun and joy
The sunlit trees and rushing river
I'm leaving behind the stars in the sky
The waving shadows and purple sky
I leave behind
All to me that is dear
So when I leave
I won't fear
Losing it

Like dust we settle
Like leaves we fall
Scatter through empty rooms
Through the vacant halls

Hatred
Boiling...
Bubbling...
Rising...
But I digress
This emotion I do suppress
But when you pound my head into the ground
Take my hair
Throw me round
Sit on my chest so I can't breathe
Scream
And scream
And scream
About how you hate me
Should've never had me
How much of a disappointment I am
How much of a failure...
Tell me how much you protect me
How much you love me
Cry and try to hold me
Try to touch me
I think I'm entitled to
Just  a little bit
Of hatred...

My little sunshine girl
How you laugh
How you twirl
How you smile
All the while
When deep inside
You taste bile

My little sunshine girl
How you fool the world
How you show only brightness
How you show only flames
All the while
Just a pile
A pile of lies

My little sunshine girl
How do you feel without feeling
How do you never cry
How do you hide what's inside
All the while
A beautiful smile
That wouldn't suggest a thing

My little sunshine girl
When you walk into a room
You make people's hearts bloom
They smile like fools
Being sad is no use
Not around you

My little sunshine girl
I wish you'd learn how to smile for real
Everyone else you meet
Is perfectly happy
Why can't you be happy yourself?

Lizzie burden took an ax
Gave her mother forty whacks
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one
Such anger
You're in danger
Run away
You can not stay
Serial killer
That's what we call 'er
Ax stained with blood
Her shoes caked with mud
In court innocent as can be
Everyone but the jury can see
Lizzie burden who took an ax
Gave her mother forty whacks
Who when she saw what she had done
Gave her father forty-one
Was set free
Because all but the jury could see

In the clouds
They met as they did underground
Lonely and lost
Devoid of all thought
Nothing changed
Yet nothing was the same
They walked and slept
Forever
In their lonely eternity
Soulless creatures they lived
Soulless creatures they died
Everything they knew was a lie

Why worry for youth if in your heart you're forever young
If your joy is kept alive
If your smile is still bright
Why worry for the future of gray hairs and parchment skin
If love is had would it be so bad
To one day sit and reminisce without the threat of immortality
Without the prison of eternal youth
Fun for years
Fun for hours
Decades
Centuries
Eternity towers
Appreciate the world
When the spring in your step has gone sour
Appreciate the season
Stop and smell the flowers
Feel the snow
The cold
The pain that as a youth you were in a rush to rid
What have you to say after your rushing worries have rushed away
What memories can you retain if you speed through to the end
You can sit for years and muse, pretend
Make a plan
Take your time
Life may be short but it's a short long while
Especially to the end

Crime doesn't pay
Well enough to take away
All of the pain
Money down the drain
A single kiss
A feeling of bliss
Because that kiss was from you
I feel brand new
Fall today
No reason to stay
Out of love
Not sent from above
No other way
Nothing else to say

I had you first
Heart soul and mind
Grown up, not apart by time
So alike, so unchanged
Through different environments, in a different stage
Now they have you, thoughts and body
Weeding away our time though unsteady
So many wishes, so many prayers to one not there, answered suddenly but incompletely
Now I have you soul mind and body
Your heart is away, on vacation these days

Now I again begin to pray, to beg one not there
May I have you?
Again the way you once were?
All mine finally for once
Uninjured, unbroken
Loved and loving but mostly; loving me?

God please!
You know me better than I know myself!
For years and years of my feelings bottled on a shelf
Resigning myself to a secret love ocassionally crashing from above, to break my heart all over again
I never minded it then...

But to have you and have you ripped away
Every night, every day
I will never be ok
The jar is unscrewed and feeling renewed courses through my chilled veins
To remember your gentle callused hands
To remember your words to me when secrets spilled and my tears would repeat
I would give anything for you to stay
Even a day or two of having you Completely having you, is worth more than lifetimes having the next best thing

Marionettes
All tied to the stage
Battered and broken
Begging for every token
Puppets for our masters
Walking disasters
Refusing to fall down
Standing on The stage now
Don't forget to bow down
You don't wanna stand out
Long to be free and roam out of your skin
But you would be punished and further broken
Beggin
Pleading
On your knees repeating
Marionettes all tied to the stage
Battered and broken
Begging for every token Puppets for our masters
Turning into crawling disasters
You long to see
What's on the other side
Could there be a good side
After all this time
How could it be
So hard to find
Yet so easy to see
But your broken
Bleadin
On your knees repeating
Over and over again
I am a marionette
Tied to the stage
Battered and broken
Begging for every token
A puppet for my master
A walking disaster

I laugh at what I see
People read
Oh yes
They read
They may appreciate my words
Just not the way I write them
Maybe
Just not the words I use
Maybe
Just not the style or my repetition
Maybe
But...
They read and they know
What I say is what I mean
And it comes straight from my heart

Red teardrops
Throughout the night
Collect in a pool
Reflecting amber light
You've been vicious and cruel
Blood stained knife
It lays across your chest
As you lay beside your wife
Three abreast

Moving up and down
Bobbing with the waves of the melody
Floating,
Slowly soaking  into my soul
note by note
Key for Key
My thirsty soul
Drinks heavily of sweet rolling sounds
Sinking down fully
Into oblivion

Faster
Faster
Speed up my heart
Play it louder
I'll be stronger
When once again
It is night
Play the songs who's tempos don't stop
Who match the beating of your heart perfectly
Pounding your chest
Coursing through your blood

You think darkness is peace
It's just the unknown
It will turn on you
Just like the world
You want the the world to remember
It want remember if you hide
You're shy?
I hate you
Just be you
I love you
Don't smile for others
Finally you see
You still hide what you feel
What you think
Say you'll destroy everything around you
So you pretend
You fake
Say everyone's ambitions are at stake
That's not true
Nothing will fall apart around you
You can show your real emotions
Doesn't matter what others think
I know you don't care
I know no matter how much you promise
You'll never tell me the truth
Because you know
I know
Nothing about you

My dear silence
Can you be broken
My dear silence
Can you end
My dear words
That go unspoken
Can you be heard
Not just in my head

There is no remedy
This will be the end of me
My worst enemy
Trapped in my head
Everything said
Only to myself
A danger to everyone's health
Repeat
Replay
All night
All day
My insanity
Has no remedy
It will be the end of me
My worst enemy

Doesn't matter what you say
My mind is mine
My mind is made

Fly away
Give me wings
Yes or no
What is the answer
Let me fly away
Though I may not have the grace of a dancer
I will not crash
I will not fall
If I go up
I may never come down at all

Here begins a new page
A new chapter
For fantasy
For laughter

How do I tell you I hate you
Despise your every move
Your every breath
It captures me
Spins me
I don't want to dance
I don't dance
How dare you
You know what you're doing
You twist me
Bend me
Knocking down the walls that defend me
I want to scream
But if you see
You'll smile
Hold me while I cry
Breathe into my hair that it'll be alright
You reach in
Tear out my heart
And I start to die
Don't touch me
Don't talk to me
Please
I don't want to love
I don't want to be touched
Just go away
I'll hide for a few days
We can talk over the phone
But in person
How could I love the person who stole me
You had what you wanted
I have what you asked
You wanted more and more
You wanted me to undress
No
I said no
But you didn't care
You already had me
Had what you wanted
In these thoughts you were comforted
How do I tell you I hate you
Wish you were dead
Your every move it captures me
Spins me
I don't want to dance
I don't dance
How dare you

I hate nonsense verses
But if there were none my words would be worthless
No fun meanings bringing people to the show
No empty spaces where your minds can grow
Nothing to hear
Nothing to see
Nothing beautiful
Nothing free

A nonsense poem
A nonsense song
A nonsense line
A nonsense rhyme
Nonsensical nonsense
Time after time
Just for something
Something to write