I could run away Sometimes it’s what I’m best at Where would you be? Where would I be? You’d be with someone else and I’d still just be sitting here Writing Some days my heart is a sinking ship Being dragged down by the weight of my own thoughts My own overthinking Fears only manifested…
My head spins like a top Out of control Memories or thoughts Sometimes it’s difficult to tell the difference We dance this slow death As if there is music Even though the hall has been silent For days I sit looking for you longingly Out of the window Of my minds eye Waiting for an…
Your words set like vile behind my eyes Seeping slowly into my brain Obscuring my vision of who I thought you were Long warming thoughts of what was never to be Permeating my memory with unpleasant aftertastes Bleeding my final notes onto my bed sheets Fast and hard like shooting stars We burned out just…
I often crave the solace in the noise of the city streets Soulless No one knowing me No one caring Downtown Portland, Oregon As I walk I see faces all around me Many I see every day Most I’ll never see again It’s all the same I’m as invisible to them I like it that…
Greeting you in the morning That kiss that stayed on my lips all day The smell of body lingering in my thoughts My day couldn’t pass quick enough Only to lay next to you again Long nights now alone In the bed we shared I wait like a corpse Alone and broken Knowing you’ll never…
I have a ravenous desire to taste you Like sweet honeysuckle in mid-April Pulling your hair and drawing you close Biting your lip while craving the soft touch of your flesh Looking deep into your eyes I see the birth of stars and tasting your lips I envision the very kiss of gods creating a…
I led a plain existence until I met you Walking through life blind and afraid A moth to the flame of each boring encounter Looking everywhere Finding nothing Blinding lights of dreams never furthering Held back by fears of things unseen I walked backward Looking everywhere Finding nothing Black starless nights I spent Alone on…
The rain taps slowly and patiently on my window Dark clouds loom filling my heart Hiding the rainbow inside Left by her smile Alone again Too early to drink Too late to feel regret but there is no regret I’m in love Walking, the rain hits my face It’s like a thousand hands waking me…
She didn’t come from the streets She was born free in the desert heat A motherless child She stands close to an edge unseen by most I see it I see you She gives herself away time after time Looking for something real Looking for love Looking for… Someone She falls apart She crawls home…
