Sea

Quiet the storm 

Lost in the oceans thunder 

Tossed like a small boat 

Lost my anchor 

Lesson

I think the only lesson in life we have to remember is we just have to keep pushing on ... 

And the people worth loving will be there , the ones who aren't won't . 

Where you left her

Divided amongst one 

Story of holding hands 

Just my heart 

Kneel beside me 

And Come home . 

Your letter , was like a stranger left 

With a blank stare .

And I don't want to write any more . 

Great Divide

There's a sacrifice for being brave 

For wearing that face 

Swallowing tears in a room full of strangers 

Everyone pulling at you 

No one 

No one 

Seeing you 

There's a gaurd at the gate 

Where your heart holds a vice 

And he knows your name 

There's nothing else that matters 

You look away 

There's a million things you wish you could say to change his mind 

But you know you can't 

So you stay silent and brave 

50 years

I feel you watching me 

As I lay here I feel safe still in your arms 

This is the silent war I'm waging 

You put the same uniform on 

And fight on too 

I can't help but wait 

But it won't be forever ...

There's something about the day 

And stale conversation that makes me 

Know exactly what it was all for 

I try to explain it 

When they don't understand it 

I know 

It's right 

I travel in crowds 

With out you I'm alone 

I lost my best friend 

If I wrote a love poem 

It would be about losing that 

My soul is the needle to your 

Unstitched thread 

If you never come back 

I'll manage 

But not whole as I once stood

you carry the best parts of me 

Where ever you are 

Where Ever you stand 

I was lucky just to know you 

Just to sit with you 

And you can read years and years back of everything I ever wrote 

That I never felt like this 

So you know it's real 

This might not be the most beautiful letter 

But it's the most true 

And it will be in 50 years .

2 D

Video reel plays 

Enough to translate a smile 

From your face 

Crowds walk by 

I notice the tone 

Of a lost voice fading 

From a computer screen 

30 days 

Weighs heavy 

Life in. 2 D 

Control 

Alt 

Delete 

Empty

Tap type search 

Blank 

Stare 

Nothing tells me 

No answer 

I type feverishly 

Sit in this chair 

Russian roulette sounds nice 

A bottle of pills 

Reality sets in 

Google can't find my joy 

I delete old history 

Tapping 

Typing 

Nothing 

The Coming

There's a collection of sunshine 

Under grey clouds 

Simple storms bring progress 

Around the bend 

There's a star waiting to impress you 

With your one last wish 

Before your last breath when your about to quit 

An all the while when memories flood your veins and over whelm your heart 

And nothing feels the same ... 

Remember the finger prints you left 

On yesterday 

Could bring back those hands 

On your face 

Of the clock you watch -day to day 

Clandestine

Clandestine 

Hollow out frame 

Making my way 

Raised eye brow 

Dialated pupil 

Empty mirror 

Shade 

Broken h2o

Exhausted pillow 

Pain 

Existence 

Heart 

Pounding 

Mourning 

Pressing 

On

1

I never knew it until it stared me in the face 

I couldn't even imagine it 

Write about it 

I laughed at it 

Mocked it 

Guarded it 

Spit on it 

A life time of wars conquered 

Vows made 

Lectures won . 

Until one day 

A girl was faced 

Eye to eye with a boy 

She was able to see into 

Every corner of his soul 

With out hesitation 

She reached for him . 

With out thinking 

With out looking back 

And he saw her too 

And reached back . 

And he left her 

Believing .

Faith

Passing words carry keys 

To lanterns hanging on trees 

Lighting dark nights 

Illuminating whispers 

Inches apart over vast seas 

Stretching apart a good bye 

Proves he's not a coward 

Making  her love grow stronger 

A telephone made of silence 

Begs him to be hers 

He says I can't 

Tonight 

Rings

I crawl in the depths of enemies 

Grasping at my strength 

Clutching at my light 

I'm screaming 

I want to hide 

I'm at the finish line

Broken bones

I stand 

They reach for the power in me 

For everything 

They are lacking 

I look down 

And smile 

I know the price 

To be found - wanting

Close your eyes

I sit at a kings table 

I walk the distance dressed in scars 

Buried in risk 

Cloaked in mistakes 

I'm looking back 

Running forward as fast as I can 

I can't forget 

All the while my world seems to be falling apart 

And coming together 

I know how to do that to well 

Until you walked into my world 

I was guarded 

Only one song played 

The universe held my hands together 

Eyes shut 

Hearts played 

You kneeled beside my bed 

Gave me shelter 

I fell in your safety net 

Heros come at night 

Leave in the dawn 

Wear masks 

And capes 

Make you believe in fairy tales 

Hold my hand tight 

Left at first sign of light 

What I would give 

For one more 

I sit at a kings table 

Writing about a girl and her very first love 

And how she wishes this fairy tale was real 

If only she had one more night 

Kneel beside her bed 

Tell her it will be all right 

Endless love

My first love 

Was everything all at once

The kind you never fall back from 

You never try to 

Never want to 

A love so big 

So strong 

It never dies 

It never fades 

It never loses it's electricity 

The kind of love you fight for 

The kind of boy you fight for 

Subways

Pace concrete 

Black streams private 

In dark places 

The secret tide 

I write chapters 

About the thief in the night 

Once taken

Plagued with a new beginning 

Losing my heart 

Leaving it behind 

In the palm of your hand 

Know that you forever own it 

To never be given 

To 

Anyone again 

Paper Cuts

I search through a crowded room 

A hundred faces empty 

I hear your voice 

You show me the door 

I crawl through a broken window frame 

I know you are waving good bye 

I want to scream no 

There is no choice 

I know 

I fought 

With all I had 

I walk backwards 

Through the crowd 

No one knows my name 

I watch you 

Drive away 

I think is there anything I can say 

To change your mind 

To make you stay ? 

I toss a penny in the wind 

I'm left here standing in the middle of the road with nothing left to bet 

If you can feel with me gone 

Then it's not worth me crying 

Is it 

The room is empty 

But I'll find my way 

Just not right now 

Repeat

I see the boy collecting fingerprints from a girl 

As they kiss over the warm pavement 

I see the newspaper black and cold pressed spreading disease 

I grab my coffee and watch the clouds warm the shadows over the mountain 

The music drifts into the back of some memory of you 

As I drive 

And it's all I think of 

As I put the song 

On repeat 

Aces

I'm playing poker 

Misplaced the ace 

Royal flush 

I could say how I lost my words 

They sit here bare boned 

Left to dry 

Hide my eyes 

I could say fuck you for your letter 

You felt you had to write 

No meaning in your good bye 

Transparent in my chair 

Left unhanded and cuffed to the unseen 

Waiting 

Do you remember 

Me 

I believe 

There are lines I can't write 

That I know belong in you 

And 

Me 

So fuck all this bull shit 

I throw the deck 

I search for you 

Unplugged 

And missing 

I find you here in me 

Slowly disappearing 

I'm waiting for the real answer 

In all these pages 

Yet nothing is coming to me 

Brass knuckles

I'm white knuckling on the edge 

Of an atmosphere 

Time races by 

I hardly notice 

I swallow my tears in a room 

Full of Jekyll and hydes 

No thought here 

Blinking and talking 

In pattern like hand stitched 

To hell and fire 

I wake up with you 

I sleep with you 

I fight not to fall from this mountain 

I see what lies ahead 

I keep going -to live 

But I feel nothing with out you 

I turn pages and pages 

And write word after word 

I can't escape 

Searching for freedom 

At the same time 

I don't 

Want 

To 

Grasping 

With everything I have 

At the edge of this mountain 

Hanging by a thread 

An atmosphere trying to breathe 

With you 

Gone . 

Watching for the wish 

Of falling stars . 

That you will find this hand reaching 

As I sit on the ledge 

Find me here 

Save me 

Once 

Again

Scripts

Metallic and unlisted I go on 

Under highway broken 

Cracked and unregistered 

You won't find me 

Amongst the heavens 

They try to catch me 

I'm a hundred leagues under the sea 

Where I started 

Under the smile of my friend the Cheshire Cat 

Madness fills my eyes 

Bad decisions fill the  emptiness of last night 

Washing yesterday's love off my heart 

It isn't working 

I'm strong 

Strong enough 

To lose 

When your not looking back 

At my notebook 

And this is my pen 

Writing you out 

As you wrote me out 

Wish it was that easy 

When you have no heart 

No heart 

They call it a disease 

I knew it well 

Until you walked into my world 

But I am strong enough 

I'm telling you 

I'm telling me 

I'm strong