Amongst the crowds of moving feet I make my way inside
And all the while trying not to hinder precious lives
The push and pull of all their weight has brought me to my knees
It's here beneath the cloud of flesh I supplicate my needs
They're pouring out, become the sea of water for the drink
I'm holding on, I start to float, oh help me not to sink
Living words don't fail me now, I fear I've said too much  
But there are reasons I won't name that feelings cannot touch
So I will speak until I'm mute, if ever that should be
With seasoned tongue so full of salt to justify my plea
Hear me now or hear me not, the choice is always yours
My voice may crack but I believe I'm holding open doors
Come inside and stay with me, I welcome every soul
Let your body shed its skin and extricate the old
You are free, don't let them say that you are dead and gone
The place you've been for all this time is not where you belong

The fruits of what you planted here are rotting in my
mind
And every day I lock the doors and leave it all
behind
I'm looking for a fire that will **** the rancid
fume
But as for now I'll rectify in ink and through a
plume
Injustice reigns in all you do, oh planter of these
seeds
I've felt you water parts of me with hotly boiled
deeds
You've burned me more than I can say or memory can
claim
And how I can be of your flesh should drive me half
insane
Instead I balance what I know with what I've seen you
do
Let clarity prepare a way to purge what's left of
you
I'm almost there, I sense it now, the last I'll use this
key
For I have found the other room you tried to hide from
me
So take your place inside yourself and I will walk
away
And harbor neither hatred nor the curses you could
lay
I'm breathing now, I've filled my lungs with freshly seasoned
air
I'm entering with both feet in, a newly painted
lair

open eyes that cannot seem
to grasp their own reality -

I've been sifting through
fragmented parts of my
life and this puzzle
doesn't seem to make
sense

But I know time
cut the edges and
scaled them to size,
to fit in such a
way that nothing is
wasted

Thus bend and break
still as I might,
I can change only
the number of shapes
I'll sustain, piece by
piece

all of me has already been made
the whole picture remains unscathed
everything will be put to use here

She brought me an apple and held out her hand 
the tree she had plucked from would lay out the plan 
Partake of this perfect communion with me
those were the words she had whispered, her plea
And should you accept it, the offer she gives
you'll see a world in which everyone lives
Not like the one where our bodies may dwell
that is laden with burdens and personal hells 
In contrast reality'll seep through your bones
exposing the parts of you no one else knows 
And this be the knowledge you'll gain from a bite
that the morsel ingested will turn into light 
It is harbored within until time becomes ripe
and swallows internally all of your strife 
For everything done was completed in truth
to finish the work that was started in you

if time has taught me anything, I can't remember now 
the ticking clock has hypnotized my every thought somehow
and here I am in lulls of sleep, beckoned by my heart 
i need to feel its beat to know that I won't fall apart
see, you can talk and weary me but I will not reply 
for all the reasons I could give are hidden in my eyes
so if you wait and closely watch you'll find that what you seek
are perfect words that only rise when neither of us speaks
the silence looms and calms the pulse running through our veins 
just enough that you can hear my footsteps in your brain 
for I have traveled far and wide across its weathered ground
all the while making sure I gilded and unbound

just you and me and this unmade bed

the perfect place for our tangled legs 

a home for hearts that once were dead

but now have found a way to spread 

the newly flowing shades of red

upon the eyes of sleeping heads

it's time, the vows are being read

for readied minds are soon to wed

and truth be told, you are my bread

i live off every word you've said

don't
force
words
down
on
the
paper
like
they're
victims

She is everyone, he is everywhere 
Talking fast and walking strange without a care 

Pick and choose the words you bruise 

They're apples falling from a tree
Once bitten, you ingest reality 

And skin becomes the center of the battlefield 
A place that you have entered but forgot your shield  

Feel the fleets pass over every inch of you

When men saw hiding spots inside themselves 
They became protectors of unruly cells 

Reflecting that which summons such passivity 
And welcomes what's elusive all too easily 

Because remember, there is no mask on a mime

I was so far gone long before you came along.

I ran out of oil so I went to find more
this is what happened when I opened the door

A gentle transition had welcomed my feet
I was now walking to the sound of a beat
The pulse made its way to the top of my head
readied my body as if stringing a thread
Stitched up together with hands at my side
the air I inhaled procreated my guide
Infancy spread throughout my whole being
and with eyes circumcised I began seeing 
Aged just enough by the end of each day
to comprehend that which no one could say 
Treading along as the hours threw clocks
it was time in the form of stumbling blocks  
Wearied I'd grow and I'd take up my rest 
on things to which only my soul could attest 
The process by which my flesh was restored
and freed of the ghosts that my temple would hoard 
Then finally lightness had sprung in my step  
and I returned home, to that one I had left 

What I'd forgotten was now all I  knew 
the oil I'd needed adorned my own room

among the trees 
to grow the one 
inside of me

Catch the water dripping down
Like beads of glass, so small and round 
And as the sun comes out to shine
You'll see kaleidoscopes defined

Colors made anew each day
They're more than words can ever say
The lives we paint inside our heads
Will find some rest upon their beds

Sleep in dark to find the light 
Then use the day as wings for flight
Every moment leads to this
The seconds gone but not amiss  

How the dreamers build a world
For all who breathe to be unfurled 
Lungs release the filtered air 
And wake the souls with perfect care

Insane
Inane
It's so mundane 
The strain
Outweighs
What I have gained 
 
I trust
I must
Repel the dust
You ****** 
With lust
While we discussed 

The days
And ways 
We set ablaze 
In haze 
Our gaze
Went through a phase

The flame
Became 
Our only name 
A frame
The brain
Could not contain

Will we
Believe 
What we have seen
Or be 
Deceived
By every deed

dancing in my skull  
i can feel your tapping feet
putting me in trances  
i go in and out of sleep
bend my body forward and
you wake me with a kiss
and tell me there is nothing
in existence sweet as this
shifting all my senses
to the texture of your skin
i have known it well and
now can see what lies within
maybe you have learned me
just as I have learned you too
so let me hear the ways that
you have mastered what you do

These two empty people
are sitting in a room
waiting for their fates to cross and hoping it be soon

Washing off their faces
replacing them with masks
and saying that they see themselves to everyone who asks

Catching all the sickness 
from other people's hearts 
then purging out their own disease by way of tainting art

Everything they painted 
has dried and turned to stone
and soon their hands will harden too as bodies decompose 

Making way for masses 
to follow in their suit
planting seeds that never grow or yield them any fruit

These two empty people 
are sitting in a room 
waiting for their fuse to burn and magnify the fume

sodded with soil of dark turmoil
ready for the earthworms

there's a web in my head that catches your
thoughts
and wraps them all up in my own


it glows in the dark and it makes me see
spots
whenever i'm feeling alone


as we move along while connecting the
thread
weaving becomes our whole life


we're busied unwrapping each other in
bed
refusing to turn on the light

seconds rest on your eyelids and wake up in tears

i can't remember the
last time i died to
myself

the one they are and the one they want to be

      well this is me, fighting duality, making an attempt to wholly be free 

i can tell you assuredly - i'm not scared, admittedly 

i have no idea what it is that I'm doing
i don't understand what it is that I'm pursuing

if such is life I willingly, shall spend my days accordingly

i'll not expect too much you see, only take what comes to me

       i'll keep it close within my reach, hide from those who steal to be     

one of me grasps easily, the other let's go skeptically

you don't wanna be like them
not even they do