Olga Valerevna

Olga Valerevna Apr 2013

The dust has settled on my skin and I no longer feel
But since I can't make sense of this I find it may appeal
And though I'm dragging both my feet to keep your hand in mine
I still believe the roads we walk were mapped by hands of time
You stuttered once and spoke my name, I wonder if you knew
That shivers traveled down my spine and turned my body blue
And all the pressure they released pushed blood into my head
Illuminating all the more, once subtle shades of red
My eyes began to harden as a gloss upon them formed
And how I had perceived myself then gradually transformed
In looking out upon the world, my harmony complied
And everyone could hear me ask my memories to hide
So come replace what you began to form within your mind
And use the flesh I've harbored thus to get the bones to bind

Olga Valerevna Apr 2013

Sell few, make me more me

Permeating every room, your presence settles quick
But sometimes if I tarry long the air becomes too thick
I know it when I place my hands before my sallow face
That your contagion enters as I memorize your taste
Shuffle, stir but don't react, you'll propagate a sound
And make your body visible to all of those around
The consequence for such a thing will only prove the dread
That living in a world of you makes everybody dead

Olga Valerevna Mar 2013

Warden of the waters

Maybe in the moonrise we can sanctify the night
I'll wait until the morning, wake for you to shed your light
We'll define existence as the something we have made
Put together slowly and then altered every day

Observing all the wrinkles that have borne the weight of time
I have ceased to challenge things that I cannot define
So as we both continue on, to rearrange the seas
There is something greater that will counteract our breeze

Olga Valerevna Mar 2013

let's tessellate

meet me in the moment and carry me away
tell me there are better things in store for us today
tell me you're a dreamer, night can be our guide
we can live inside our heads, a place for us to hide
space will claim our bodies and bind them in a knot
keep them where the people are but never let them rot
time is not the issue, granted we're asleep
riding out infinity like rivers running deep
synchronized completely, a level playing field
fluid rationality is finally unsealed

title taken from Alt-J's "Tessellate"

Olga Valerevna Mar 2013

Fishing with no hooks

One day I went fishing, unloaded at the dock
And picked up on the sadness that the earth was giving off
No matter where I wandered, I always felt its pain
It matched the kind inside of me for it was all the same
The day had passed so quickly, the night would soon be here
Intensify despondency and make me disappear
I knew I needed something, the thought had not caught on
'Til weariness displaced my bones in ground I walked upon

from a conversation I had with someone about fishing as a child

Olga Valerevna Mar 2013

Take it back

You found a hole inside my head and covered it with thoughts
Then watched the ways that I'd respond whenever I got lost
Insipid mind I deemed my own, according to your words
The ones that kept on telling me it is as I have heard
Convinced I'm in agreement with the arguments you've made
I place my arms beside myself and take my life away
And what remains before your face is nothing but my shell
An empty vessel you can fill with every kind of hell
So test it out and draw, design, my flesh is but a tool
That I may choose to leave behind for someone else to rule

Olga Valerevna Mar 2013

Off but not all gone

In chewing on hypocrisy I've masticated truth
Yet I expect my tendencies to take me somewhere new

I'll stay a while and reconcile the world unto myself
Then claim the fate that I have lost to be my source of wealth

But what I gather with my hands collects upon my back
Exceeds the weight that I can bear for all the things I lack

I'm tacit, blue and out of breath, I lay my body down
And use the covers on my eyes to take me from this town

title taken from lyrics of The Dear Hunter's "Lost but not all gone"