The woods are my asylum
I'm surrounded by my screams
the animals all know my secrets
because they guard my echoed dreams.

Go to sleep
you broken thing
you tired, tired
sack of tissue
say your prayers tonight
get up tomorrow
and be ready
to be broken all over again
Amen.

Shallow breathing
where my lungs reside

Hollow soul
speaks from deep inside

Heavy yearning
as these feelings subside.

She's not you
she doesn't kiss me
those times I'm absent
she does not miss me.

Her eyes don't shine
when my name is said
she doesn't like to get close
or sleep in the same bed.

She doesnt like my jokes
or when I smile too wide
she gets angry so quick
that it's like a prison inside.


I wish life could be the same
but everything is different now
and it's only getting worse
since I can not speak your name.

Once the bombs fall
and the sky grows heavy with fireworks
you'll never see beauty again

Forests no longer bleed green
laughter does not echo
childish games become war exercises.

There is a darkened need
to overwhelm neighbor,
friends, enemies.

Only scorched earth remains
charred memory on your boots
as the taste of yesterday fades.

There is only advance, advance---
when footsteps fall, marching on
and it is the nothing that is shared by all.

I'll sing a song
of Sophie
and the life I've left behind
I've kept all your love notes
but I never found the time
to write you back
I lost track
it always slipped my mind
until the day I lost you
and I could no longer
call you mine.

In my shell
there is life

In my cell
lies decay

It shows itself
every single night

Then at dawn
hides itself away.