Crowns of mortal kings last longer than their wearer's life
Standing firm as their rulers bend in earthly strife
Such are symbols of power and worth
Molded jewels and gold
Tyrant or triumphantly just, power they do hold

People are guided or trampled by feet that rule atop the throne
Outstretched hands strangle or stretch to the future, either loved or loathed
Who will guide and who will run through
To ruin or history
Such are the woes and wonders of the people guided by mortal kings

Crowns of mortal kings you stand, undaunting in your shine
The only etchings in history of your wielder and the exploits they leave behind
Adorned with blood, with fingerprints
Of dynasties come and gone
Crown of gold, ages old, as history rolls on

Ahem....
We had 104 days of summer vacation, then school turns to life just to end it
So the annual problem for our generation is finding a good way to spend it...
LIKE MAYBE:
Working and working until you are sore, only to come home and plop in bed
Forgetting your taxes 'till the last minute or getting pulled over by feds
Surfing the internet, pinning on Pinterest, or downloading pirated songs
Get halfway through a book, changing your kid's diapers, and watch TV to see there's NOTHING ON!!
As you can see, growing up just ain't easy, but we're in for the overhaul
But we can sit back and laugh at the fact WE DON'T HAVE SCHOOL IN FALL!!!!
YES WE CAN SIT BACK AND LAUGH AT THE KIDS, 'CAUSE WE DON'T HAVE SCHOOL IN FALL!!!

My dear, you wound me
As only one who holds my heart can
So unassuming yet so
Sweet
Warm
Mesmerizing
There’s no wising up with
Such a pretty face
Graceful
Wonderful
A subtle disaster
A ticking bomb in my arms
Oh how you wound me
As only one who holds my heart can do

I am at the point of a unavoidable breaking
This life that overcomes my will and all I'm undertaking
And to say I've found neither solace nor peace would be a correct assumption
But you do not see me past your judgements and presumptions

I am at the point where I feel my heart about to shatter
Turning into grains of sand mixed with dreams that no longer matter
Yet you desire to see the smile that's actually a frown turned upside down
Just so I'll say "welcome home" as I act as the matt that you stomp to the ground

I am at the point of screaming at the top of my mind
Seeing the things that the world's forced me to leave behind
See all the mistakes and heartbreaks that litter the floor like shards of glass
Cutting me and dragging my consciousness back to the past

I am a tattered soul who is choking back the tears
Just to say hello and make it seem I have no fears
Being crushed under the pressure of the smile plastered on my face
Seen as no commodity, but only something that can be replaced

I am a rebirth waiting to happen that your eyes dare overlook
The page written by the hand of God that's unread because mankind closed the book
A tried and failed prototype that is this world's very own casualty
And yet it should fear the future, for it shall no overcome me...

Not today...

Tender words spring
From her heartstrings
Tender words whisper no
Turn around, see
On the ground she
Whispers please, don't go
Hold tears no more
No reason for
Teardrops not to flow
Heart on a string
From whence tender words spring
Never let her go

Blood on the floor
Heart out the door
I'm 99 percent sure I can't do anymore
Here I'd be standing, but standing's demanding
So I stay on my knees, no idea what you're planning

Wrong to presume
****, this suit's new
Burning from the bullet, mixed blood, me and you
So afraid to ask if I'll live or is the casket...
Pause on that thought, because I'm too afraid to ask it

Body like lead
Ringing in my head
Got to get up or I'm gonna' get dead
What went south is what keeps nagging about
Small room, then boom, we shot, no room for doubt

Stumbling on
Knowing you're not gone
Blood from on the floor, out the door, brain beats brawn
Leading to an open door, adrenaline pumps my core
I don't need this anymore, my whole body ****** sore

Gun *****, breaking in
Shot rings again
I yell for you to come from your place round the bend
My mistake was made and with my life I will pay
As you come from the door behind me, you shoot, and you win

Break the glass encased around
Hear the loud crashing sound
See amidst the shards you've found
Is a secret long since forgotten

Read the words upon the scroll
Etched in ink derived from soul
From half of one which once was whole
Thrown into bottomless sea

Pass each letter with your gaze
See this love, a trivial maze
Unfaded by a undaunting phrase
Oh sweet love, return again

Underlying all the confidence and succes there's a longing that I've known of for some time
Looking earnestly inside herself behind courage I can see the concern within her eyes
Who will guide the girl who's reached such destinations as so few have in her span of life
Who can tell her where to find such a thing as love and therin lift all the underlying strife

Did you know that she runs quickly simply because she feels as if she might get away
Burying her being within herself in hopes that someday the wishes just might fade
Looking at tomorrow as not just another day, but a possibility that she might rise
All these things and more I find I realize whenever I stare into Sarah's eyes

Whispering while screaming, you may never know of the sudden turmoil that lies within her mind
Whirring through the days and nights that she's lived through, trying to not leave a detail behind
For in the faces and the people that wear them, he may shine within her memory one day
The one tales promised that would come into her life, bringing the colors out the underlying gray

Somewhere inside she will find that she is more than she gives credit for, though it won't be tonight
And you'll see confidence and a smile, within it a prayer that she will be alright
As I pass her by, I'll find inside a glimpse I am remembered as a possibility
For Sarah asks not for a name or a story, but on things that she hope might transpire to be

Where does the setting sun lie at night? He lies right by her side
Lighting darkness so no demon can enter or even think to reside
Revitalizing himself and his warmth as it lies next to her chest
A girl who outshines even his blinding rays and never straying brightness

Heat that echoes in a room that no man has ever seen
The girl who gives him renewed hope and therefore keeps him shining
Working long days and waiting for winter when early with her he may expire
Lying next to a heaven with no proper equal, eyes burning ***** of fire

The loveliness that's awaits every day for him to return
The only reason for such mortals like us can see his flame still burns
A never vacant daytime sky and a plentiful earth that grows and grows
All because of the girl who awaits the sun and his return back home

See and be captivated each day by the smile upon his face
Feel his perfect warming rays and know it from her embrace
For such things only shine that much brighter because of the fuel they use
The girl who lies by the sun each night when it says goodbye to skies of blue

Tell the tale of a girl once bold
Singing songs about a heart once cold
Hearing heaven with every breath she takes
Praying the next time her heart won't break
She will tell you that she is okay
That she's getting through her day to day
See the lining of red in her eyes
See the truth although she denies she cries

Listen to each dream that she whispers silently
The story present past the eery quiet sea
Looking for not just a lover, but a friend
See the beginning in her eyes and pray from a happy end
Respect the words that come from her heart
Know her brand is a work of art
Find the fairy tale and the reality
See her and the beautiful tragedy

Pray someday it will be a story from long ago
That hearts will be reignited and melt the chilling snow
That she will love with love that won't let go
And that heaven will bring to the rain a colorful bow
Tell the tale of a girl once bold
Singing songs of a heart once cold
Hearing heaven with every breath she takes
Praying the next time her heart won't break

Some days
She finds
Herself
Vacant
One
Self-destruct switch
Away
From
A life
Her own
But different

The steps
She takes
So delicate
As not to
Hurt
Still leave
Craters
In living room
Floors
Unmistakable

But better
Are craters
Of shrapnel
Than to be
Stagnant
Feet embedded
In a place
Where she
Finds
Only vacancy

Tell me when forever stopped any why the love just ended
The weary eyes and quivering lips that we should have transcended
The voice that constantly told me my love is for you alone
That voice that echoes through the halls of my now empty home

Tell me when uncondtionally suddenly was cut short
And how every single snide remark and every stabbing retort
Would change the love we solemnly swore we had into a lie
Which made the screaming of a broken heart our nightly lullabies

Tell me when the great roaring ocean became bone dry
When the words stopped coming from my lips and instead in tears I'd cry
When nothing was left to be said except that we knew of each other no more
Leaving the only sound the closing of hope's door

Tell me you still love me and you will tell no truths
Furthering my discomfort and taking away memoirs that soothe
For I am lost in a world where promises go untouched
In which a forever submerged in love seems not to mean too much

If we could stop a moment and breath for just a bit
Carry out the hullabaloo and cut all the ****
Listen to the surroundings and then just contemplate
Find ourselves in the noise, stop, and simply wait

If I would just look into your eyes and see the value of it all
Why we chose to take these steps and why we chose to fall
To feel the wind rush through our hair as our hearts drop from the sky
Only to realize that the falling is just a lesson on how to fly

If you could just lay down with me and say not a word
Let the dark and silence banish the harmful and absurd
If we just could understand and maybe contemplate
Then we could find a point on where be both find we relate

If we could see the point where awkward smiles turn to tragic tears
Where bravery is overtaken by overwhelming fears
Where we can alternate covering each other's fallibles
Then turn a tragedy into something wonderful

Dear Lucy, I will paint a dream as best I can for you
Pick up a paintbrush so you, too, can help me make these skies of blue
Loosing the grip of a seemingly loveless reality
Killing you're hopeless mentality and reminding you of why to sing

Lucy, I will never give up on the rose in your cheeks
Each time you blush, I cannot speak because it's a sight I forever seek
Tasting all the colors that the easel offers you
Clearing microscopic views to show that love was made for you

Dreaming of leaving the past of dreadful things you've seen
Jumping the fence to grasses green and having picnics, you and me
Lucy, I have seen the golden crest of a sunrise
Though night may come, it's in your eyes by which I seem to be hypnotized

Looming are the days of love that break apart storm clouds
Living in love, right hear and now and knowing we'll get through somehow
Lovely are the thought of it being just you and I
Looking upwards at painted sky as told to us in lullabies

Lucy, never lose hope in the gift that's owed to you
Pay no attention to critic's bad reviews and make a show just starring you
I'll be in the front row cheering and jeering you right on
The spotlight for this stage is the dawn and it tells you to carry on

It shouldn't be this way...
You alone and my arms empty a million miles away
You crying without anyone one there to say
I'm here

It shouldn't be so cold for you
Sitting with legs wrapped and only walls in blurred view
Longing for a love I know I can give you
Easily, lovely, yet there you cry

I could be there, the tears wiped from you face
My lips calming you whilst in a tender embrace
Lying with you in moments none can replace
Tasteful, tender, warm moments

It should be that way
Everyday. Today, tomorrow, yesterday
No sorrow, me with you, forever to stay
Never alone hereafter...

I look upon these stained-glass windows
Hearing the words that've been echoing inside my head
As I walk down the aisle

Curtains flow down in a lovely indigo
Hearing the sounds of this church as if raised from the dead
As I walk and I smile

Barren sanctuary with cathedral ceilings
Fermenting in the silence of empty wooden seats
As I dwell in it all

Stone upon wood warms me with a feeling
I can hear the tile as it meets affectionately with my feet
As they rise and they fall

Call me again, Father, to the alter
Let me not stray as I whisper the Lord my plea
As I fall in the midst

Let me be as the Rock of Gibraltar
Under this roof, let me stand firm on my knees
A lighthouse in the mist

Echo-cho-choes bounces off my wall
Of my mind and ring through my mouth
In stereo I find I try
To convey what I'm speaking about
Let it out it says in perfect pitch
To my inner ear so no one hears
You've got something to say, then say it
Don't go out like a *****

And I stand upon my soap box
As I point you out in the crowd
Stranger I've never seen before
I hope you read this nice and loud
In reading this, you owe me a smile
A hug, a handshake, or a kiss
I'm the lover that went unsung
And so I'm writing this

Take me for what lies beyond these shining eyes of mine, she said
Beyond the properly placed smile, get in my heart and in my head
And see the casualties in life and how much I pray you won't be one
The beginners have ended too soon, I'm beyond just looking for fun

And she told me that the tears she'd cried were much more real than past-times laughing
Men seem to think she walks on water when really she is drowning. gasping
Pray for a silver knight who isn't actually a beast within
Hoping for a branch of hope amidst a forest of broken promises

And I told all that I could say, to her I could not tell a lie
Hoping my words didn't spark a moment where she'd break down and cry
And I whispered truths into her ear with honesty that was understood
Telling her I no a perfect man, but I'd love her like no one else could

Paper skiffs amongst purple cliffs, an eye and I between
Floating along with hummingbirds, sea of green under me
And I behold such wonderments that stand so wondrously
The world in the hands of a painter, a painting so awe inspiring

Floating as the flowers pass and shine immortal hues
An eye of mine so filled with joys, colors spilling into view
A world of gold, in whole, a world of both the old and new
All these things from a paper skiff, purple cliffs, and skies of blue

Don't mind the parts of me fading into the background, for I am best left unseen
For you might find you're disappointed if you view all of me
The mountain's tip shows only that the valley is so very far down
And it would hurt if my bungee was cut and I went spiraling to the ground

So don't mind the parts you cannot see and see the picture painted
You already met this supposed thing called me, no need to be reacquainted
As is the way things go when the shallow waters are trodden here
The rest of me faded from your eyes, but always somewhat near

See the smile that I've plastered on my face only for you
Hear the laugh I give and believe it, this fantasy you're not meant to undo
I know you and your complexion pales each time you see a flaw
And know you as I do the rest, you'll be quite quick to withdraw

I will walk as if I'm floating on air, I will sing clearly as the day
Not letting you know the load which I carry, the storm clouds that won't go away
So look not into the backdrop and see only half of what is put in your hands
For I will not be deserted by you, even though me you'll never understand

You are absolutely the most gorgeous
Modest
Goddess on two feet
Those ambitious
Wished
Auditioned, failed
Had to sign a non-compete
You exemplify amplified
Undeniable
Realism till I’m knocked right off my feet
And meeting you leaves me
Tongue tied
Buy and refund vowels
Because I can barely speak

You are Artemis and Athena
Sometimes meaner
You’ve both the brain
And brawn to back it
Not many times do sights
So right
Prove worthy of me
Being flabbergasted
Mere mortal men’s minds cave in
Bend
And bow at your intricacies
And you blush, turning crimson
Glimpse
As humbleness rushes to your cheeks

You may not feel the heat
But I know the stakes
Grade A
You are prime to me
Prepared, unshared
With utmost care
Rare
And it’s the only time I’ll compare you to meat
I’ll avert my eyes as you rise
Ascend
A gentleman for eternity
Because love was fantasy
Fallacy
Utter blasphemy
Till you made a believer of me

Paint such visions in my heart
In this cold, feed the dying hearth
Tread where my footprints are in this snow
My lovely, warm me, don't let go

Hear me calling amungt the noise
Rest in the rumble of my voice
Feel as the warmth in our blood grows
My lovely, warm me, don't let go

Sing such songs from year before
Dare me, tell me to fear no more
Home is you and all I need know
My lovely, warm me, don't let go

I will kiss your hand as we close our eyes
Hold you close, your breath my lullaby
Let our love stay on the straight and narrow
My lovely, warm me, don't let go

Call her summer till you lungs are blue
But she's my winter always
She is who always forced me to
Hold her closely each and every day

Call her lovely and you'll make her cry
She only believes it when I say
She's has been taught to learn that men lie
Just so they might get their way

Find in silence, she'll sing her heart out
Just to drown out the sad
Of her wonder, all have not one doubt
Her grace exceeds the bad

Hold her closely and she'll shy away
My arms are the ones she claims
Call her summer each and every day
But her winter remains the same

I'm not worth the paper plate on which you time is held
Nor am I a sturdy one on whom your dreams can be shelved
And I fall so many many times almost as if on cue
But I can love like no one else. This I promise you.

I'm not the charming grandfather clock that always keeps on time
Neither am I the cloud from which you may float up as high
My hand to God I'm not the most clear, I swear this to be true
But I can love you like no one else. This I promise you.

I am not the lark who holds the sweetest sounds
Surely I am not the moon or sun for I've barely left the ground
I am not the key to you wings for I am the bird who never flew
But I can love you like no one else. This I promise you.

My confidence leaves much to be asked for. This much you can see
But I give you my honest word there's another side to me
For although men may come and go and skies switch between gray and blue
I will love you like no one else. This I promise you.

I will write it 'till the ink of the earth has all been used and gone
And still even then I will write it with the rays of the dawn
For though my talents, like these words, are passionate but few
I will love you like no one else. This I promise you.

Find me elementary and I will show
That I'm a child at heart but there's alot I know
I could start to grow on you and change those reds into blue
And before you know that inner glow will show how my love is true

Find me ignorant and I will say
There are just some things that I avoid to save the day
But with the sun shining down so slim upon the needy ground
Could you blame me if there are parts of yellow I long to save

Call me bewildering and you will see
There's so much beyond your fence's patch of green
I'm part of technicolor folks who clear away this blinding smoke
And leave you with a simple harmony

Call me elementary.

Life for me's like a Crayola box
A simple structure made out of those buildin' blox
And I bind and take these new shadings of the world that I am coloring
Placing them on the structure of a solid rock

I can play with you amongst the sand
Don't you dare be afraid to take my hand
Those there's no ocean anywhere we can swim upon the air
Stop me please to tell me if you understand

My elementary.

Imagination paint the scenery
Use the finger paint that we supply freely
I will paint in and out the lines to make sure that you're forvever mine
And we will find that we can forever be

I will lose you today and there's nothing I can do
For all the love I've put in this and all that we've been through
I find these tears that we both share are futile, but never few
And I am sad to say that I know I'll lose you

I will search for you, my love and discover you are gone
And I will find that with you also left the dawn
And the moon will not shine upon this loveless island that I'm on
To me I find the misery of life is often drawn

I will miss you when you leave me and this hole will not be filled
The beating of this heart of mine will be forever stilled
And this loss is not pertaining to hope, neither is it the lack of will
But still inside my sparks are divided by such an icy chill

And my soul screams I will lose you today and there's nothing to be done
And so I dread this loss and relish my last rising sun
For I know that the loss of this warmth in me has already begun
As heartbreak throws me back to a battle I thought I already won...

...I'm sorry.

I could see you a thousand times and still not understand
The heart that creates fabled sonnets and holds love in her command
The wings of whom are white as swans and as wide as the albatross
All I can do is tell you why for words I'm at a loss

I could listen to silken words that fall out of your mouth
But be no further in my mind for a letter to come out
Such earthly made thing are like encasing gold within cold lead
So I will keep such things in my heart and fret not on what's in my head

I could touch the skin I crave each and every solitary day
My lips touch yours and then I find that I am worlds away
But still come short pertaining to these trivial words of mine
So I vow here, on bended knee, for the rest of my life, to try

If such stars as these should shine and time treat you well
If your hand should reach towards the heavens and your feet stand above hell
If dreams should culminate in mind and not be drowned by tears
And life lived well and fully, then pray, what do you have to fear?

If God should smile, as He well does, and touch a humble soul
If champions could be brought out from the lowest of the low
If dust could be made rich again and reason resonate in deaf ears
And the sky touched by mortal hand, then pray, what do you have to fear?

If darkness cowers in the face of ever burning light
If monsters can be opposed by silver armored knights
If hope can rise out of the ash and dark skies be made clear
Then look inside your core and ask what do you have to fear?

Packing my childish thoughts, storing my dreams
Stabbed by reality and distant ambitions bleed out of me
Rainy is due for sun's shined in my head
Now comes for the part that I find I dread

Treading, no trudging down a word so detached
Imagination in the grey I find I lack
Here all is nothing and I want it all
In the end result of the fall

Hello good son upon my doorstep
Have you gained your old man's respect
Or rejected trivial things
Has the boy become a man?

Hello good son, are days kind
Have learned teachings eased your mind
Will you take this world one hand at a time
Or have you found no ground to stand upon

Hello good son in foreign lands
Does a lover hold your hands
Have your demands been met with silence
And tell what you'll do be heard

Hello good son, rise again
The morning sings through your windowpane
Each note singing of choices new
And you have so many roads to take

Goodbye good son, I'll see you once more
Another time when you knock on my door
To ask the questions life has yet to teach
And fall upon the words I offer you

Dearest, please, take these little pieces of me
Bury them in stone and soil so I might finally be
Strong enough for you, strong enough for me
Taking the weight the come with love and all things it may bring

Dearest, please, take these little pieces of me
Mix them well so I might blend within the sea
So I can submerge in a love that roars eternally
And so that a love that always was will forever be

Dearest, please, take these little pieces of me
Throw them to wonder that is the wind, so free
And I will never tarry when I hear you calling
And I will be the chariot that carries you to your dreams

Dearest, please, take these little pieces of me
Instead of in the ashes,  where our home once was standing
For my love will scream louder than the horrors that still ring
Redder than the ****** ax you use to make little pieces if me

These days, they lose their potency
As love is lost to misery
And history has taught me
To just stop fighting it all

For letting go, it often seems
Is best to grow, to keep moving
Rather hiding in the lonely
Than to risk damage in the fall

And I ask for you to only
No chastise, but just let me be
And then maybe I'll find some peace
Inside my loneliness

But I most likely won't...

Let me borrow your ear
I need to clear
This up for a minute
By far
Everybody is scarred
But no one wants to hear it
They wanna believe
A spirit can be wise
And pure
Unweathered
When in actuality
You and me
Barely keep it together

I’m a fretter
I’m anxious
Brimmed cup of anxiety
And it took a lot of patience
And mistake
To create me
And I come in different shapes
And colors
A variety
To the point I have to wonder
If I compose society?

Do you feel it
The heartbreak
Due to the overwhelming pressure
A feather
Dancing on an flame
Trying to pull it together
I better be better
Cause a better better is coming
Across my way
And I am less than adequate
A bruised peach
They will not taste

A waste
A want
As we all lay ever starvin’
I’m pulling punches
‘Cause of time crunches
I’m reminiscent of Marvin
In the way
That each day
I wonder exactly what is going on
And something something else
I’m too stressed to remember the song

Dear lover
Dear dreamer
Dear whoever you are
Love beyond the frayed bonds
And see all of us
Scarred
I hope you love with love to spare
And that you spare some for me
Stop looking to be perfect
Because you’ll be very
Very
Very
Lonely

Whisper quietly to me
How things are and how they should be
Heart and soul, they pass sweetly
In a silent world

Tenderly caress my face
Stop all tears in an embrace
Carry me pst this darkened veil
Show me to the light

Stay and calm such fear that burns
Help the sun and smiles return
Turn me from a darkened world
And I will be made new

Humbly, I pray...

I shot my bullets in the sky
I unloaded my gun
They touched her face and lead, she cried
Until the day was done
Soaked was I with her tears
From anguish came agony
I shot my bullets in the sky
And the sky fell down on me

My wishing star fell from the heavens and into the depths of hell
Leaving me without a hope to fill this hollow shell
So if you wonder why my head's down, it because I've searched for it in the sky
Finding it's light has been extinguished without a single goodbye

Hell has come by once or twice and knocked upon the floorboards
Taunting me and prodding an already open sore
The thing that remains to be decided is whether or not I'd want it back
Knowing the charred remains lie somewhere as it's luminous white turns black

So hear I stand with head to the ground and tears welling up in my eyes
Hearing the darkening sky which gives me reason to cry
Not a hope, not a dream, not a song, not a wish, not one story to tell
Not since my wishing star fell from the heavens and into the depths of hell

I see your face in stages
As I flip through the pages
Following your story as the war around you rages

Significant in elegance
A cruel world's recompense
But fervent in your rarity and ever present subtleness

In no history books are you written
A blip in a grander vision
A story of mistake and scars from varying decisions

But I flip through and see you
And in this your story rings true
And I see the flaw and wonder that only living can accrue

You feel you are a stack of mortar and brick
I see you as a sailing ship
So funny how these things contradict
You think you’re still, I say you’re still moving

Shift with me, but standing against the waves
You’re not one for the newest craze
Traditional as you innovate
You and your wonderful “you-ness”

See each time you rise and fall
Ship to sea, not stagnant wall
Consistently moving, never to be stalled
Till your destination is reached

And until you sail again

Days come to a halt
Is it my fault?
Could I have done more?

Words fall to the ground
Cannot be found
As they slip through the floorboards

Ever so silently
My mind violently
Shake me awake

Dreams fail to resume
As I resume
My silent heartbreak

I am the falling out, no doubt and no doubt I fall away
From favored hands and favored eyes that once held Cupid's gaze
A host of a former heaven that landed upon the ***** ground
A person who is always there, but never can be found

My heart has gone unstruck and unstruck I fear it will keep
For I dug into my heart a hole that was six-feet deep
So here I am buried in myself simply because you never came
And I must pull myself out while dealing with the shame

So I will stand with depth in hand and hand in the depths of my soul
Holding on not to things gone wrong, but making my half whole
With unflinching determination I will rise from misery
And find the love that Cupid seems to have denied me

Change the pace, replace, then sing
The words, unheard, the tempo focusing
And unto hallowed voices bring
A little bit of clarity

Please part the clouds of smoke we've made
While songs of hope burst like grenades
The smog now cleared, amidst the haze
So we therein might find bright day

Barefooted runs, dirt between toes
In chorus, a million solos
Rise up, a message from the globe
Live more, cry less, sing as you go

Hold my hand and fly, and fly
My sweetest Caroline
Falling is the nectar of life
Like sundrops, from your eyes
Sing of souls once downtrodden
Who will see light in you again
Hold in time, this hand of mine
My sweetest Caroline

Keep in view, in view is you
My lovely Ashley Ruth
Pray in day your dreams come true
Though these dreams of yours are few
Keep in mind the hopes you treasure
Love is truth, not always pleasure
Float right through from greys to blues
My lovely Ashley Ruth

Run as if the summer wind
My darling Madelyn
Show the spring where to begin
In this cold world we live in
Stand stronger than the maelstrom
Pray for what the world might become
Heart of gold in plains of tin
My darling Madelyn

If my words inspired such things
As demon's fire or angel's wings
Then the words I'd write might be warring
Like opposing, blood-stained kings
Each word in depth as if a book
The letters soldiers, a chessboard's rooks
With swords that clashed and shields that shook
As hallowed ground was overtook
Such damage or healing my words could share
Each one sweet'ning or staling the air
An angel's kiss or demon's snare
The choice being mine, both side both there
Oh, what effects these hands could bring
From siding with such warring kings
As grounds they shake and swords they sing
With raging fires and beating wings

This ember inside of me has yet to be put out
Simply because of the succulent taste you name puts inside my mouth
The words exchanged in a kiss that belong to us and us alone
And so if my journey may be long, know that you are my home

I see your face in constellations found with the starlit nights
I feel your warmth in summer winds as they embrace me tight
Each step I walk may further separate us, but my love stands with you
For in the midst of it all, it insists I stay pure and true

Darling girl of fairy-tales, oh princess of my life
Know my thoughts of you are constant throughout the sun and strife
Know the embers burning within me will not die in this lifetime
Know that this traveling lover boy's passion goes beyond the brine

I will taste your lips soon, oh beauty. 'till then I call your name
And I shall walk on until I am back in your arms or crawl if I am lame
My eyes will look onward, my mind will stay sharp, my legs though tried will stay true
And ever *****, muscle, vein, and cell will feel the embers burning for you

Stand to ever hope again is what she said to me
And this was foreign simply because hope was such a distant memory
All feelings in this world that had greeted and left my heart
Had forced me to rip hope out of me and from it forever part

Stand to ever hope again is what she said to me
But I was not sure what to do, a man on bended knee
Beaten and bruised by the vandal known simply as myself
People paying me no kindness as I found I pitifully knelt

Stand to ever hope again is what she said to me
As my knees shook and waivered and my body and mouth screamed
For these things called legs had let me down time and time again
Always buckling and leading to the place where I'd begin

Stand to ever hope again is what she said to me
When my legs failed to do the task I wished them so earnestly
But oh, I find that she did lie when announcing hope's demands
For hope is present when we try, whether we fall or stand

Dearest raindrop do you miss the cloud you fell from
Floating in the sky and dropping to the humdrum
Of a car rushing to work or a sidewalk to be stepped upon
Do you ever look up and miss your view of the dawn

What are your thoughts as you fall from the skies of grace
Brothers and sisters falling down with you, touching a child's faces
Do you find a home within the ground you crawl within
Or does the sun take you to the clouds where you begin again

Running sink and dishes mix with tears she cries
Suds upon her hands mean she can't wipe her eyes
She has heard it and it has once been mentioned
So why can't she see it within her reflection
She is so much more. She is beautiful.

The Painter's hand uses smooth brush strokes to paint her curls
Which toss to and fro whenever she would swirl
And she might not dance the best, but always with a smile
Reminding inside this young woman was still a child
And she would look at you. Smile with her eyes

She walks slowly to her room, the tears have dried
Wounds still fresh, but still she says that she's all right
I would give up heaven to make her never doubt
To banish such thought that I can't seem to figure out

Her teeth a pearly white only comparable to angel's shine
Biting her lip when she's thinking, turning bright red when she's shy
No season could match how I feel when her love surrounds me
Hugging me each time so tight, as if I was lost and she just found me

She sits there, solitary, on her bed, in the silence of her room
Heartbeat echoes in her head where brutal thoughts that loom
And I stand there, helplessly to see the girl of grace
Lines etched and shining, showing where tears have fallen down her face
And she is wonderful. And she is beautiful.

And I will remind her every day...

Dear love I write to you
From lands composed of foreign tongues
Praying home is rife with sun
And that your eyes still hold stars and you are well

My journey away from you
Continues with you in my thoughts
And oh, the wonder my travels have brought
Will I be home soon, only time can tell

May your tender lips pray on
As my travels carry me near and far
May my dreams bring me to where you are
Whether I go by land or by sea

By this letter that I write
Know that your love longs for your arms
And to return to them safe from harm
Oh my darling, please wait for me

I remember passing a giant hole in the sky
And the sunshine pouring on me like molten rain
It burned me 'till it reached my heart
And there in began to quench it, so parched
Until I was sure I'd never thirst again

And as the golds and reds overcame me
Technicolor tears passed down these cheeks
As I looked upon the unrelenting sun
Its fountains pouring down and beating like a drum
Leaving my mouth closed and unable to speak

And those technicolor tears turned to glass in my hands
The heavens contained and compressed in the heat
And I stood there with the pearls called the sky
A gift from the sun and its constant shine
As it dripped from my hair down to my feet