My Dearest One

Motionless I lay silently on the floor as she played piano across the room Note by note a stream of endless daydreams pass as if my mind were a kaleidoscope, and the memory of another woman was the shattered glass inside The music stops with a sudden crash as though she read my thoughts and…

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These steps

Every breath takes me one step farther from you Every sigh and every whisper from my heart move me one step closer To forgetting the pain Every step as I walk away leads me down the path of letting go Every path I walk and every avenue I visit puts distance between us And one…

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Butterfly

I had a dream that I was surrounded by butterflies They covered everything around me like a blanket through the darkest night As they flew around me I watched in child like wonder Excitement filled every aspect of my soul And then they flew away Carrying with them a vision I had never seen When…

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Knowing

Knowing you’ll never be mine Knowing you never really cared Knowing my heart is mine to control Knowing my life isn’t Fate, kismet, and serendipity collide into a rainbow of hatful desire And I am once again walking alone I know you Better than anyone could And you know me Holding hands Touching lips Souls…

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We Dance

We dance in open air in the corners of my mind Our hearts beat in unison as great drums beating from tribes afar We can’t be together We can’t be apart We dance in open fields of wind blown grass Our hearts open wide to the many possibilities of where the universe will carry us…

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Untitled

I woke up with new eyes today The same blue eyes have sat on opposites sides of my nose from birth But when I woke up I seen the world differently I walked in such painful strides before Overlooking signs and appocoliptic visions of an end so near Yet I ran so far from myself…

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Do you remember?

Do you remember when we were seventeen? Punk rock music and skateboarding off of Short Vine We didn’t hold anything back Do you remember walking arm and arm? We passed out on the door step from drinking too much stolen beer We didn’t hold anything back We hated each other But we’re never seen apart…

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Me

I took a walk inside my head just so I could talk to my heart It led me down so many paths of bad choices and broken dreams Finally I found what I was looking for I thought it was me. Then I woke up and realized I just wanted it to be me. But…

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