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Mar 2019 · 215
Ship of Fools
Jordan Stanley Mar 2019
Ship of fools
climbing up the river
bounded to progress
blinded to beauty


ship of fools
don't know where they're going
but they always think so
do you really think so?

the water is not as
cold as you had thought so
last year I watched the leaves fall
now I fall with them

I,
watch the ship burn down
every night
I lay my head
I see the blazing story
in my bed

ohh

I,
watch the ship burn down
every night
I lay my head
I see the blazing story
in my bed


and what happens next
isn’t ours to choose
what happens next
really is just ours to lose


The Ship of fools
Mar 2019 · 151
Dream Girl
Jordan Stanley Mar 2019
Dream girl, I live in
a lovers dream


Talk to me
and tell me
Oh just what you think

hold you close and
understand
feel your warmth while I
still can

feel your touch and forget
the plans that we make

Dream Girl
Jordan Stanley Mar 2019
Look one way and know
where to go
Die one day
through the open door you go
an open door
I know
An open door..

Looked at me as I
looked at you
and thought about me
through and through
and I knew
I could feel your blue
what a wonder that can do

Still you look one way and know where to go
Die on day
through the open door you go
an open door
I know
An open door...

Looked at me as I looked at you

and felt the pulse as you
Pushed on through
and you knew

You saw my dripping face
Oh the grace of this new place
Mar 2019 · 173
Fall
Jordan Stanley Mar 2019
And when you fall
you will feel it

a taste
of the place that you
call yourself

I’m waiting for you to
come home

I'd join you but i’d feel
so alone
Mar 2019 · 147
Spots
Jordan Stanley Mar 2019
The truth is here
and so are you

Water drops clear
from the sky so blue

Green grass sways,
people play day

and I watch lady jump
leaf to leaf

Holes in your arm
from your teeth, so large

Stains on you brain till’
the motives are yours
Till’ the pain feels sane
Your days are arranged
And I'll watch lady jump leaf to leaf
Mar 2019 · 288
Questions(to think)
Jordan Stanley Mar 2019
Questions flowing down
the river

piling underneath my feet

Push together, like a mountain

to form the blade that
I unsheath

To find the questions that I
seek

the River pours to you and me

To find the answers, you will plea

the rivers here for you and me


To find the questions that I
Seek

the River pours to you and me

To find the answers, you will plea

the rivers here for you and me


look, it’s only you and me
there’s others too, but they
will see

You are the one you want to be

and you decide reality
Mar 2019 · 154
Here I go
Jordan Stanley Mar 2019
An army of soldiers
searching for sun
caught in the shade
of what they arrange

They build to keep safe
underneath they sway,
in the shade

This army of soldiers
searching for sun
caught in the shade
of what they’ve arranged

They build to keep safe
underneath they sway,
in the shade

Winning the game that you
play without reason

everyone loses their mind
into minutes

Passing the torch
with the skulls on our porch
success

And I sit, and think
while people yell at me
to do, something
my thoughts they cannot see
Mar 2019 · 132
Head on the pillow
Jordan Stanley Mar 2019
every soul thrown into this place
has a longing voice
and an awful choice

and every choice that I
choose to make
brings me awful pain,
Until my dreams unfurl


The only constant is change
watch it all
rearrange
you got the change in your pocket
along with your dreams

saving them up for when you are
deceased

Back   against   the   wall
or is your head on the pillow
I really can't tell

Tired but comfy as well
life is so swell
existence inside of a shell
Mar 2019 · 139
The past
Jordan Stanley Mar 2019
The past
Your past

Your feelings of a remembered hallucination
tie you up
tie you down
form a conception of you
One that is stagnate
held to the ground
Mar 2019 · 126
Me
Jordan Stanley Mar 2019
Me
When I reach
and feel,

A dream of me
is all I see

A dream that is
Mar 2019 · 141
bubbles
Jordan Stanley Mar 2019
Comfy clowns
Rolling heads on the ground

Flashing their lights at
the sound of bubbles


Comfy clowns
can't even watch
wonder drown
Flashing their lights at
The sound of bubbles
Mar 2019 · 160
Different
Jordan Stanley Mar 2019
A different shoe for
Me and You
and it gets me every time

what brings a smile
to my face
would make some others
cry

love is confuse
thought cloud so blue
circling my head

I am amazed
that I am here
and I can't wait
to be
dead
Mar 2019 · 125
Blue
Jordan Stanley Mar 2019
With a cry, I joined this laugh
Just a face in a lap
of you I became

and forever so often, the light travels by
far outside a blue sky Lies the warmth of our minds

In an ocean of feeling
we reach for the ceiling
but I reach for you
A hand stretched in the blue

making waves in the water
the weight of our laughter
we share this together
the love of another
Mar 2019 · 111
School
Jordan Stanley Mar 2019
It’s a land far off shore
A land I once knew before

With scribbling tools
the delving fools
wash the day away

As shapes pass by
he gives a cry
it simply is too much to hide

his only dreams
to see you and feel me
His only dream
the dream of reality
Mar 2019 · 124
What's that sound?
Jordan Stanley Mar 2019
Hearing sound if now out of bounds
she turns around, the film is down

A shadow at play
in her dreams to stay

out of bounds she lays
hearing sound
Mar 2019 · 96
Carry me
Jordan Stanley Mar 2019
In a passing glance
I found myself in the wind
waking up as I was blown down

In a twirling dance
I lost myself in the sea

Nothing more, the breeze
of the ocean floor

carry me

Under the blue, swaying with you
Breathing the tides
Laugh when we cry
Mar 2019 · 127
Everyone
Jordan Stanley Mar 2019
Someday it will all end
all you've made real, all you pretend
in a box it will all end
for the mother the man
and the friends

just a box inside your head
it's the reason that you're dead
Mar 2019 · 93
Jordan
Jordan Stanley Mar 2019
Jordan?
He’s simple, misunderstood. He’s simply misunderstood.  Pouring language over his feelings, he’s commonly alone.  Not much will sway him, but Jordan searches for what will.
Mar 2019 · 86
What a joke
Jordan Stanley Mar 2019
I
asked a bear in the
woods for a joke

he pointed to the man in
the house and I laughed

then I went to speak
with the man
he knows my name
he doesn't know who I am

“Look at me”,
you could have it all
you could have it all
he told me
I could have it all

but I already have it all
he was standing so tall
but he was feeling so small
so he threw me away
Mar 2019 · 108
Her
Jordan Stanley Mar 2019
Her
She's bleeding
She's crying
the winds carry her screams
swelling the ocean and opening dreams

Currents of whispers, low to the ground
and those below only now hear her sound

Curious corpses
the deaf walking dead
dance with us now
unlock doors in your head

Change is of becoming
The sun is on my tongue
Mar 2019 · 89
Yesterday
Jordan Stanley Mar 2019
Early morning sun
day has just begun
and you're in a foot race

The wind was howling in my head
but she still lays here in my bed
the opening door
the light on her face

My guitar ate me yesterday
and spit me up in my hide-away
just to see what I’d say

when no one’s around

Bodies dragging through the streets
I wonder if they'll ever see
what’s staring
right at you

A lashing of letters
when the speaking is neat
****** black knees
you feed the streets
you are meat
Mar 2019 · 94
Majesty
Jordan Stanley Mar 2019
What do you think?
You’re the only one that knows

Why don't you play?
When you do it surely shows
me

Something I long to see
humans feeling free

reaching out endlessly
for a friend
Mar 2019 · 115
Do you see it?
Jordan Stanley Mar 2019
I don’t rise for the sun
the sun does not rise for me
but we're both up
Mar 2019 · 291
Magic
Jordan Stanley Mar 2019
I see the faces you make
Sharing the fate of the hands that you shake
and ohh....
I think you look great
With a bug on your thumb, all alone in the shade

Swimming through seasons along comes the wave
the wind blew me over then left me alone
A golden light passed me, dripped watery wonder
The magic of all as I dance out my slumber

— The End —