You burned me
For even in the darkness
She shines
Demanding to be her own flame
Soft caressing warnings
"Next time I'll set you on fire."

She’s the kind of girl
Who makes you
Want to chase fireflies
In the dead of winter.

I'll be the first to admit, I am not fireproof
I feel it burning me
Oh, and darling isn't it just scorching you?
I really hope I don't ****** me
If only being sent to heaven wasn't such a burden too
If only we say oh, we do, we do

Do you think years from now
This old town will still call us family?
Cause’ I remember what you said
Let’s not lose our heads
And I’m moving fast
You’re holding slow
Leading the way
Learning to swing and sway
Every move is so dramatic and erratic
The gleam in your eyes has me fanatic
Always there and never giving up on me
My own personal therapy
Dancing under her starlit canopy
It’s so hard to see
The future is blinding me
How will this end for me? I can only imagine quite tremendously
Could I convince you?
Let’s do all the things we’re were not suppose too
Let me see a different view of all the carnal sides of you
Meet me at the twenty-fourth floor somewhere on the roof
Whisper pretty fictitious truths
Let our first dance a top the world be for the world to see
It’s just you and me

She has no idea, begging for help as I bleed her dry
She doesn't know the transfusion comes from my mind
Body and Soul giving her life, some trick for a trickster
Lately our communications been off
Both deemed unworthy in the eyes of lovers
The depths of hell calling our names
Let's breathe out and breathe in
Fill our forgotten lungs
With timeless seams of winter
You just couldn’t help drifting
Like the love the leaf craves the cracked cement
Asked me to let go, and my stress seem to let go
It’s a hard feeling knowing the truth will hurt and the regret will sting
So, we’ll just let it float

I'm struggling with mortality
Oh, Honey this world is mine
****, I just want to live forever
Feet don't fail me now, I just want to go
Sticks and stones, a couple broken bones
I've just been wanting to be scared
The beatings over now
Still I'll have my crown
Free to be free is pain
I'll incite the riot
I just don't know any better
I just want to ******* live forever

We're young
We've made a lot of mistakes
Heartbreaks is the norm
We're always looking for a crutch just a need for human touch
Just brief romance
We let ourselves go and when we let ourselves down we just shrug it out
what's wrong with that we're young live fast die legends
Forgive us for what we have done
We were young.

This world
Isn't quite
What my heart expected
Except you and I, two hearts
Refusing not to be connected
If the church knew were weren't believers
Living stupidly free just lost dreamers
Oh, how badly I crave to be free
Just, trying to find my home sweet home
Maybe, something's just wrong with me?
It doesn't matter cause, it's not just me, but it just so happens to be we
Thanks for helping me feel so lively
Just trying to find my way back home, oh sweet home

I’ve always been a gambling man
Especially when it comes to love
So, I bet her that we’d end up together
She laughed that angelic tone
I so crave to hear
Asking how ever shall we know?
Ah, love we’ll flip a coin
She demanded heads
The weight is heavier
Tails it is my dear
What she didn’t know
I had a double sided coin

I think I have a ghost that follows me
They’re a shape shifting trickster devil
Playing tricks on me
Cause’ I see you everywhere I go
Hear my name called
Lost in the seas of people
Echoing with sweet delicacies
I thought I found a lover at twenty three
Almost was the death of me
For I tripped and fell
Found myself in the depths of hell
Can’t remember where we’ve been
Traveled on the wind
I met your ghost
It whispered in sweet delicacies
Lathered in sins
Let you go
Just seems the words
Got stuck in my throat

There she was
The pretty girl at the party
In line at the bathroom
I said let’s talk
But, my liquid confidence is wearing off
Something so sweet, it’s tragic
I bet devils love ya, but I’m not sure
With a laugh that pure
Flames in your eyes I’d love to meet
I miss the look on your face
Lost in a summer haze
Feeling like it’s Coachella
Every weekend
With free spirits
Bound to the flowers on your head
And I loved the way you danced and sang
Oh, I miss the way we danced and sang

I’ve never been good with religion
It’s a damning personal decision
Even then I find myself on my knees
Begging you please
This world has glimmers of hope
They’re all that allow me to cope
To be honest, I shouldn’t be here today
It’s a moment I’ve learned to replay
Every day, in my mind it’s the only way
For I am a sinner and you’re a saint
Lost for words and only images to paint
I wanted to dance in the chemical rains
But, they never came
You were dancing with the sun
I guess I’m just not that fun

The heart has died a time or two
Yet, the courage still remains
A new narrative
A fiction rooted in truths
In a world in flames
With a villain called Love
As the story goes
The sun loved the moon
As the waves kiss the shore
And the hero is death
Pitted to lose
For love and life are but the great devils
Descended the gods from the heavens
For in our back story we were lovers
Chasing inspiration
Weaving the old into the new
Treating the pestilence
With simple kisses
Consumed by hope
Seeing something that isn't there
Careful not to bite
We don't forget, what is always there
And sometimes it's so unreal
There will always be some mornings that we will forget where we are and we'll reach for one another across the endless scapes of the mattress we call home

All a little lost when it's over
You're reciting heartbreak philosophies in the shower
Alone I'm walking through the beautiful flowers
I think I might just take off for a while
Cause' tonight we're freezing
Everything that you wanted, was everything I needed
I'm sorry for last weekend
It'll be quite the shock realizing you don't need me
You'll be wondering how you're losing sleep
No matter where your soul is
I hope you won't try to fight these feelings every night
You still have every right
To breathe
I didn't know you were golden
Till I tore your heart open

She told me I had golden eyes
Except lately they just don’t get her high
That must be the reason why
When I look into my own eyes
Love seems to die
It’s a really long process learning to fly

I'm not dead, I'm MIA
Cruising down the coast
Bag's were packed you don't even know I'm already gone
Lately life has been cool and chill
Except I hate when people front
I was told they loved me from the start
I always knew this would happen before I was a cool cat
Still that elementary loser just turned into that guy
Turning to my writing just pass time
I'm a savage yeah I know, but lately I'm just skippin'
My hands always movin', grindin' out these words
Never satisfied till they're ******' perfect
I told them they're going to talk about me when I'm gone
So I packed my bags and moved away like I'm gone

A vicious game
Now a days they say love and hate is one in the same
I really wonder what it is that I offer you
I mean, at least you feel my touch whenever I walk on you

I should've known from the start
I'm still a little lost and don't understand how I feel so alone with your hands on my heart
Yet, were still so far a part

Our generation is taking love out of ***
So, only to question is left
Its alright together it's always better it seems
It's funny, if you have feelings you're weak
So, we'll just say less than what we mean

We got lost
In abstract sounds
Of one another's hearts.

We need it, we chase it
Face it, you want it, you crave it
Believe when I say that you'll know once you taste it
Look what we've done
Before you gave me your words, take mine and run
Before long, you'll move on, and I'll be too far gone
Cause' I ain't got patience to slow down the chase
We'll need some space
To realize I'm not quite like other guys
Heart on your sleeve like you've never been loved
Your friends are in the back waiting for us to move on
Guess you could say we've been here to long

Let's write a confession
Nothing fancy, no rhyme scheme or pretty words
Truthful insights that a corroded mind calls home
What's home?
Down wishing wells
Lost in ocean swells
Cause' the truth is hell
Drowning minds
Overcome with grief, sadness, without an ounce of hope
Lost and bitter, feeling like you could die
It's like a dream that you can't wake up from
No matter how hard you scream
Like, darkness calling you home
To the deep unknown
Where light and time cease to exist
They say secrets make you sick and you should all know
The problem is you can't tell anyone for the fear that they'll go
Imagine you were a kid running and stumbled
Scraped elbows and knees
Just to find yourself years later still stuck with apathy
And you get a moment where life's just a bit different
It shined briefly and you hadn't eaten for weeks
So, you stuffed yourself to the extreme
Just to see that you'd go hungry again
And I like words, they give something I can't seem to find
Knowing that my health isn't good and I hate myself
Stoking the fire, complaining you're still cold as hell
Overwhelmed and empty knowing you aren't well
I just won't keep running in circles ending where I began

Dreams and dreams of a man
The only one who can do what you do is you
Taken paths of decadence
To the moralities of an heart not yet corrupt
Lie two picture frames
The legacy of a man

1. The family and kingdom adored by all
2. A man of twenty-four atop the world, of snow capped states and stars, yet a lone for the glory

Heavy Lies The Crown.

Fitting in with the crowd
Like a puzzle piece
Forgotten glories
Delusional goals
I'm tired of getting all the answers
By mimicking others
Even if the stars that connect us
Could sing a gleaming song
Morning would still be broken
This life that we're living might haunt us forever
We're burning in hell if we're dying tonight
All of this changed and messed up and I still find myself addicted to You

I'd like to meet her
The girl that's completely obsessive about me
Loyal to no end
Forgiving
Crazy even
Girlish when I need her to be
With a name that even in the most difficult times
Will shout throughout my body
That would in dire times do what I could not
Who can be brutal...deadly even
If it came to protecting me
Who will make my heart sear with pain when she isn't around
Days aren't as sunny when she stays in doors
Who can understand my love for her when other's cannot
Who knows my love from just a simple calling of the name
I promise you Love...We'll be together someday
Whatever the cost.

She had irrational fear
That no one would love her again
Like you did
It was quite some time later
She woke before the sun
Snuggled up in a sweater
Sipping on coffee
Gazing out into the peaceful morning
As the faint greys came to light
She began to realize
She could

For she is my queen
Goddess of all my personal hells
Ruler of this heart
Torment and sweetness
Depths of madness only achieved
In craving kisses and unjustified bites
For the lands of my soul
Feel a despairing drought
When your love rains cease
So, please pour
Let your inner storm
Rage down upon
These fires within my heart
So, that you can begin to heal the charring remains

I don’t really know when it happened
Or even how it happened
I suppose I just woke up one day
And didn’t really feel the same way
I was different
I knew it, I could feel it
I wanted to start over
Except sorry’s can’t change time
And it was hard for me to be mad at you
I don’t want to be
There’s a part of me
That loves you still
Always will
You know, I just want to be your friend again
It’s really hard that you look exactly like me
And, we’re taking turns in my mind
It happens all the time
Just give me some time
I’m sure I’ll change my mind

Tonight, I’ve had my heart broken and so I’m just going to take a break from all forms of communication and such is this. I truly appreciate all of you who admire my work and you’re all fantastic writers, I purely just need some time to re-evaluate myself as an individual. I want to personally thank you all for your support and wish you nothing, but the best in your adventures with beautiful words and emotional delicacies.

With all my heart, I hope to find your words caressing my thoughts in a endless sea one of these days.

-V