...paper dolls

...afternoon tea with friends

...belly laughs

...as good times lend a hand

...dressing up

...princess on parade

...buttercup

...daddy's favorite name

...precious days

...in the make believe

...reality at bay

...the innocence of dreams

When humanity gets you down
Look under the rug
Cry

If
the world
appears too frightening
Close your intelligent eyes

Judge me
Laugh at me
Whisper about me
Hate me
Love me
Call me names
I'm doing it to you
We are human
We are animals

It would take a true heartist
to ever
make sweet music
with these broken strings...

soft
love notes
played by players
with unfaithful hands

dirges
drawn forth from lullabies ...

I cry

Enough...

Let not this music be
forever the sound
of tears
f
a
l
l
i
n
g

but lift me once more to my crecesndo
with but your soft caress

that my heart
may once more know love



be my metronome
that I may again beat in time

anew.