Thursday, July 30, 2009

Peace?

Midnight or passing three a.m.
This night is darker than I ever could remember.
Roads wind familiarly to places long forgotten
and a startled recognition that walking away
could never be so clean
... or easy as it seemed.

Finally, I breathe.
Finally... release.
Finally, your face regains it's rightful place in memory.
Darling, tonight we tried but we failed to see the lighting.

Rest in...
Go in...

Peace finds you when it's over.

Thursday, May 7, 2009

three small words

baby i would have loved to take that flight
with you, down to that ocean getaway
to that island in the sun, romantic stay awake
but what comes easily to me
is not just 1, 2, 3, believe and you shall see

i still need the 1, 2, 3 steps that make up the in between

baby i would have loved to play that song
for you, i wrote so you could fall in love
a note for every word, a word for every hum
but what comes naturally to me
is not the 1, 2, 3, everything comes out so easily

i still need the 1, 2, 3 steps to teach me how to sing

baby i would have loved to laugh all night with you
kissed and made up after that fight with you
talked of life inside and out with you
but baby what made scared to me
was the 1, 2, 3 reasons why dad could just get up and leave

i still need 1, 2, 3 breaths to find serenity

baby i’d love the chance to prove
that ocean parkways never end
that yes, we have the same thing drawn inside our eyelids
but now its much too late, it seems
its been 1, 2, 3, too many days since you’ve been close to me

i still have 1, 2, 3 words i feel the need to say....

Friday, February 13, 2009

Better off

"Fly me away,"
...all I used to know how to say
"Take me away. Let what may be, let it be."
But not until it happened to me

Frightened and Afraid
Isolated and Away
All the fears will come out
When you try to sort them out
Seeking a way to grow up and change
But innocence is lost with every passing day

"Take me home. I want what I know"
A little girl will plead,
"I don't want to be here, but I want to be free!"
You need to stay for any of it to change,
"Well, then I think I want it to all be the same."

"I want to know the names of all the places that I go,
And all the faces that I see,
Even if that means that I'll give up this part of me,"

"Okay, I've decided. There's nothing left to say."

Take a deep breath. Take it step by step.
Take it to the end
Take it even when it bends around the corner
Where the unknown is next.

This is best... This is best...

Sunday, February 1, 2009

the shelter of my single bed

cold, shudder
cuddle under covers
bury into me
(don't even leave your feet free)

breathe in the night
breathe in the sight of you
closed eyes, tight for the light of dreams to shine through
(to guide you, nevermind you, its all unconcious anyway)

we begin again today and tomorrow and the next
until goodbye is just a mornings breath
not a whisper in the night
between the blinking of four eyes at rest