empty roads
and solitary houses
muddy creeks
their rippling currents
flowing softly
to the marshy swamp
pooling and dripping
and soaking deep into the rich soil
ribbons of grass
sprouting from the creamy earth
kissed softly
by hazy sun rays
emanating from
grey cotton clouds
that blanket the sky
and hug the mountaintops
charcoal cormorans
perch on the branch
of a tree submerged
by the still pond
that mirrors the earth

nothing like the ocean wind
on your wet tears

the course of the ocean
to drown out your fears

like the taming of nature
to dense concrete piers

like this moment you'll remember
for so many years

speaking thinking hoping
that someone just hears

yet the present unfolds
and the future nears

just along for the ride
people, places, careers

keep letting go, breath in, breath out
til thoughts cease and the mind clears

nothing like the ocean wind
drying your tears

i don't really know what to write
it's been a long time and i'm high
buckled in for this flight,
on a trip through the sky

i'm not sure where i'm going
don't really know why
i could say that i'm growing
but that might be a lie

and when i finally get there
i'm not sure what i'll find
i just need a new somewhere
or i'll start to rewind

mind keeps drifting away
bring it back bring it back
replays on replays
happiness that i lack?

it all keeps unfolding
with it so do you
this existence you're molding
what you once thought you knew

but you don't really know-
you know nothing at all
just give in to the flow
and realize you're small

it's hard to wait
like-- what do you do?
is it all up to fate?
don't know how to be you

but there's no how is there
you already are
so why do you care?
you've made it this far

your mind is the sky
say it again and again
sometimes you just gotta
clear it up now and then

heavy
i'm a hollow shell
empty
i knew i wasnt doing well

but i didnt really think
it would get this bad
not my first time seeing a shrink
but not like this, never this sad

there's some ******* a stretcher
her eyes look empty too
maybe its the weather
but you know its you

grey walls and tile floor
my heart quivers
there's gotta be more
it can't be the fear the darkness the shivers

some guy in a groufit cracks a joke
his arm's in a cast
shut up! i need a smoke
happiness feels like distant past

my appointment is late
but i must stay polite
though i wait and wait
marinading in fluorescent light

after all this time
now it feels like the end
time to let go
and call you a friend

i knew it would happen
and i try not to cry
you've moved on already
and i say 'so have i'

i still miss you every day
though you don't miss me
i can feel myself dissolving
from your memory

the silence, the drift
it makes my heart sore
you don't feel what i feel
not anymore

how peaceful and sound
where the dead lay to sleep
corpses in the ground
six feet deep

leaving but a stone
with your name and a quote
as you lie alone
in your nicest coat

your life just a mystery
to all the passers by
no idea of your history
who you were or why

they can really only speculate
to imagine who you were
to ponder of your fate
though they’ll never know for sure

wilted flowers left behind
from a friend a month ago
when you were briefly on their mind
and they were feeling low

but soon they forget-
leave you stored in the past
still another sunset
and it won’t be the last