The night belongs to you
I'm not real until
You're holding me

You gave me your guitar
I gave you my heart
And we're strumming
Heartstrings
Until the sun comes up

GUILTY KISS

Love is never really what it seems
Love is never as it is in dreams
If love is going to be like this
Then I don't want your guilty kiss

I waited so long to hear you say
That you want to kiss me every day
I waited here for you to be
The man I built up in my dreams

You're the one I waited for
You're the reason for my open door
I don't like to pour my heart to men
They always hurt me in the end

I hate the way you say my name
Like I'm the subject of your game
I got caught in all your lies
'Cause I was foolish and unwise

Please don't say you're sorry for this
I don't want your guilty kiss
I don't want you to break my heart
I just wanted you to take my heart

Love is never very real
It's nothing that you wish to feel
Everything you dream is fake
It will all fade when you wake

Forever I would dream of kissing you
Never thought I would be missing you
But I don't trust you anymore
Please get away from my closed door

Don't lean in to kiss me now
You've broken every single vow
Just walk away and leave me here
I want to drown here in my tears

Maybe one day you will see
That you and I were meant to be
But you're not the man I want to miss
And I don't want your guilty kiss.

i walk.
i run.
i jump.
i fall.
i fall.
i fall.
i call.
you catch me.

i walk.
i run.
i jump.
i fall.
i fall.
i fly.
i soar.
you pushed me.

The moon reflects my face
in the rear view mirror
as I drive forward,
passing strangers
late at night

Trees like weeds
they flutter, lean
street lights: stars
the radio keeps me comp'ny
as I slowly lose your voice

Submerging
in thinking;
drowning,
stars losing their twinkling
it's so dark down here
in my sea of dreams

Swimming underneath whales
with concrete bellies,
and lined, gray backs,
covered in minnows
as small as I.

It makes little sense
why I swim away from you
the stars no longer shine
down where I follow the line
of skinny, yellow fish.

Faster, faster
I dart to the grotto
of coral, reef, sand
It's my home for now
though it's fathoms away
from you.

The devil never came out of his cave
until the angel was in his presence.
My devil never attacked the angel
until I released his leash.

I let the devil eat the angel,
My angel, oh it's dead.
His eyes so blue, his lips so red
He's dead dead dead.
His wings are frayed
his heart betrayed,
my devil to rest was laid.
Insatiable curse
You've built me a hearse.
I rue the day you were born.
I trap you in verse,
but coldness gets worse
and now I lie empty and worn.

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The turtle and hare
scorpion and frog
devil and angel
he and I
light and dark
we're similar in that
we're opposites
divided by a line
of compare.

Never in my life
have I felt so dead
if it weren't for my rising lungs
I would find a bed.

Defining love
is like describing a color
to the blind.

You might say,
"Yellow is happy.
It is the sun,
a daisy,
a duckling."

You might say,
"Red is passionate.
It is a rose,
one's heart,
an apple."

But these are elementary, trivial words.
They are pointless.
The blind will only memorize your words.
They cannot truly know them.
They cannot truly know
That grass is green,
a bluebird blue.

In fact,
You could lie to them.
And most people will.

Color can only be seen,
just as love can only be experienced,
never to be conveyed in its true form to others.

And trust me.
Falling in love
is like seeing colors
for the very first time.

You hide in night like whispered song
I lie awake for far too long
I see your light, elusive flame
Never flicker twice the same.

I cannot tear my eyes from you
I cannot bear this love you brew
I reach with broken finger tips
You whisper silence on my lips.

"I am a star," I hear you sing
"Something for me you must bring
Pull the moon straight from the sky
And I will love you 'til you die."

How long, how hard, how fast I fell
For such a deep, enchanting spell
I cannot say how high I flew
Just to catch the moon for you.