From scratch
pampered
warmth, love

Rise

Fall

Only with you
can time stretch forever
where it feels
like an endless walk
circling the Earth

Round and round we go
like giggling children,
heightening our
senses to new altitudes.....

Dizzy,
we gaze into
each other's eyes,
exploring the depths
of gravity's absence

Floating,
we pass the
city's evening moon
listening for the
echoing sounds of
Saturn spinning...

Of your own free will,
you release chords beyond your
throat, angering a lashing tongue
that starts fires

Of your own free will,
you travel a great distance from
where your vocals carry north,
but echoing desires,
travel south of envy

Of your own free will,
you blacklist the frail,
bury your mistakes in haste
and pave over them, with greed

Your free will isn't free at all,
it has a cost

I borrowed your dread
though it is not mine
it accompanies my every move
I want to give it back, get rid of it
but it penetrated my skin
occupied my soul
I borrowed your dread
part of me now
a scar I've made room for
a squatter in my home

Make
like a star
child,
and
F
  A
     L
       L
fast and far
Beyond the dark
S P A C E
that
raised you.....

You're reaching out to me
with words unspoken
they follow me through a
"burning house" ignited by sound
I hear you clearly
I feel you loudly
Your instrument lies horizontally
upon a table
Passionate fingers softly caress the lamenting strings
plucking a haunting melody
lingering to extinguish the lonely
cinders that dance upon thin air

Still,  the steady flow of vibration mourning the loss....

and in one
fell swoop
of a sunny
Sunday morn
she steals our
breakfast smiles....

when I look up
at all the ego I have left
to climb
just to summit victory
a top of a rhyme

Find a phonebooth
jump into a cape
outrun the id
in me,
before it
escapes

Insults,
like toxic drops
erode self esteem
forming fissures
deeper than
canyons

With,

nothing left

to give

I went crawling back

for more

if you must

chain me up in your basement

do it!

just don't let me leave

I'll come up with a million reasons,

why I should leave

don't listen to them

listen to me

I deserve you

a gentleman

honest and true

So no matter how much I beg

to be free

remember, don't listen to her

just listen to me

lock me up in your basement,

hold me forever

throw away the key

There is a light in my eyes
that comes shining through
when I experience the gratefulness that comes from loving you

The size of honesty
Mystery of
TRUTH
unable to measure.

DREAM BIG
but where would I find
TRUTH
in all of that pleasure?

All the spectators
gather around
await the circus
coming to town
when we moved in
oh, what a show....

Suspend me from a hook
to dangle
face down
for
I am ashamed,
no longer able to
stand on my
own

Looking on to listen,
offer nothing to support
except my
dust,
in place of hollowed
bone

This trail of breadcrumbs
has lead me astray,
lost,
from myself
wandering thru the deep woods
every creature, a threat
every song, a howl
Soil too coarse to walk upon
A reservoir of dehydration

Thirsty, hungry, tired
stank of regret
Tangled in vines like wire, sharp as tacks, stifling as fear

I've played against your game,
tried to hide
my hide
up inside
the manikin
your bullet created
entrapped, secured and stuffed
full of your filthy thoughts
NOW,
pose her in a life like position,
trophy mount her
Display her as you wish
She's no longer mine...

I listen for your voice
on lonely, humid nights
chilling,
like tropical ice
the way you once
held me so tight
then, just let me
slip away.....

But how will I live
life, in my own way
if I keep having
to listen to everything,
you say?