Just Like Heaven 

Dim light moving softly across the floor I hear you lightly breathing still deep in sleep Falling deeper watching you Knowing my heart is captivated by your ocean of love Envious of every breath  Wanting to wake you To hear your voice Wishing your lips were firmly pressed against mine The morning complete as you…

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You <3 (Make Me Sick)

I’d rather fly in the sky Than walk with the dead On broken wings not able to carry the weight of my soul I look to you with great love and admiration  You lather me with your forked tongue  With your harpies lies defile me with lies of love and forever One promise of never…

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dreams and nightmares 

I believe that it’s easier to love from the distance of a dream Your heart is protected in a shell unbreakable by the paper arrow of Cupid Only lost in a hopeless romantic slumber are we given the ability of free love Unconditional until it’s tested by free falling into the oblivion of self Giving…

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Cherish 

It’s those lazy afternoons that I cherish the most Your head in my lap Holding hands The way you kiss my lips softly You never seem to know that the only thing I really need Is to be right there with you Holding hands Brushing your hair away from your smile The only person I…

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rise

Long days pressed with stress and disappointed  Fighting to keep my head about the surf Sinking slowly into a dream of gin and sleep Neither are at my disposal  No arms to hold me No voice of reason My smile still sits firm on my face Determination to rise above the deepening waves Not even…

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No Title, yet

I woke reaching out for you Out stretched hand for the ghost  Left by a dream so real Yet escaping like a thief in the night Catching waking light peering through my window Watching it dance like pixies on my wall Wanting that light to be your warm body Making its way slowly to my…

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Unseen

My soul looks out to the edge of forever Thankful to an open Universe  That you have my heart Lost in the fear others have created Jaded and broken by careless people  You step forward with kindness falling like rain  Your soul touches mine Dancing with joy and excitement  I rise from the earth where…

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I Stand Tall

Laying in bed early morning With thoughts of Sullivan Street on my head Like a weight pounding it takes me back Wishing for a better yesterday serves no real purpose  Drowning in a sea of regret After a night of worry and suspicion  It’s hard to move paralyzed to my sheets A slow death like…

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A Pale Sad Moon

Lost in a night sky as dark as the heart of Lucifer in the nightmares of children a bright moon sits as if hung from a string mocking me knowing that you are away from me tonight Your memory lingering like the stars puncturing the night sky  On my sheets your scent the memory of…

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Gather Your Wits

I set a drift in a hurricane of emotion and inner turmoil fighting hard against bandits with blood filled mouths and out reached hands grasping for my dignity and pride Falling short of unseen eyes while holding firm to beliefs  that my mother and her mother before her crammed lovingly into my head while force feeding me…

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