Colors.

Come to me

Disguised in dream

And we'll sleep

As colors beneath

Symphonies of stars.

Jagged.

You know, we danced in my dream last night

In a ballroom full of smiles you were my only home

You saw a waterfall in an ordinary pond

So let's go, let's heal, let's run away to April.

Dallas.

I suppose there are supposed to be words

And a way to get away from this world

Looking down, looking around I see beauty

The beauty of a blazing fallen star in my bedroom

So I wash my shoes in the clear Dallas water

And I'm a seventeen-year-old child again.

Reach.

Someday we'll go

And I'm holding onto someday

A fixed point in time for us

We can reach it if we try

Thinkers and dreamers, you and I

Someday we'll see the stars

And what's more,

We'll drift among them

Finding home.

Worlds.

Her thoughts
A tesseract
Infinitely folding
A paradox
Contradicting
A sky
Expanding beyond reach

She just wants to run
To take off and gather them all
Peek around each corner
Of "what if?"
So easy, so easy to get lost
For inside of her
Are worlds and nebulas

Flight.

She wrestles with this number

Struggles beneath this stamp

"Doesn't feel any older."

Just feels more like a trap

No I'm not, no I'm not.

You see, I'm not.

She is, but I'm not.

Not going to stay.

There's such a world to see

Silver screen, you and me?

Just a scratch upon the surface

Dimensions wait for you and me.

She always wakes with the dawn

As it seeps in through the blinds

Now she sleeps beneath a glowing map

Of love, space and time.

Diaphanous.

She lived in a world
That didn't feel like home
More like a tent
That they'd pack up any day now

Effervescent.
They found their arms full of time
And they ran along the street
Throwing it to the wind

You see, for days
The sky had been falling

Well, not falling,
But slowly sliding down
Along the buildings
Weighing down the trees

Suffocating them
Because they were lost.
The sky always told her
Where she was

Today, on the other hand,
The haze lifted off and away
Gone like a breath
Leaving brilliance and glare

She bundled up
And watched the atmosphere light on fire
Those ships took off
And away, away

Someday she'd fly
Cut through the sky and into the stars
They would leave this world behind
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Until then,
Into the tent and wait
Warmth pinched at her face
And she held tightly.

Invisible.

I have a superpower.

Invisibility.

I do not like this power.

I can try to hide

But people still trip over me

Though they do not see me.

I do not have to be seen

To be in the way.

I would much rather

Be able to fly.

Everywhere.

Here's to eternity.

I see you in those grand clouds

Which spread across the sky like wings

Those are the ones we'll fly through,

One day.

I hear you in wind chimes

As the bitterness carries itself in

I bundle up and listen

Smiling and shivering here

You're in every cup of tea

That brings warmth to my bones

Winter stretches

Though the days are flat

In the morning, you're there

The scintillating sparks of dust

Suspended, drifting before my eyes

As the light catches and fingers them

You're the map in the night sky

Of worlds waiting to be seen

Together.

Even the road brings me back to you

I drive to gray places and back again

But when you're here

And you always are -

Most of all, you're in June.

We break into day at last

After all this sailing, we reach the shore

And the days are long

We last, yes, we are forever

You're everywhere

In the sparkling trees of late morning

The shimmering surface of water

The resurrecting heat on our skin

The bright pavement for bare feet

I hear your song

And sometimes I get confused

But you see, the difference is

That you can exist here

Everywhere

Because we're part of it all

Singing

And my favorite song

Is the one I sing with you.

Traveler.

Is it true, what they say?

That she's a time traveler?

We all travel in time, love

But you see things that most don't see

Perhaps she should seal her lips

It'll go away, after all

In time

These longings will become a horizon she's left behind

November.

He chose to build it
With those innocent eyes
Looking up to me every day
A home with a porch all around
Steps in front
A balcony in back
A hallway inside
Well done, little brother

I wish she'd leave
She was born into a family of thinkers
But still no amount of thought
Could prevent her existence

Maybe she begins an echo
As she's falling asleep
Maybe she fingers the strings
Hearing a haunting melody
Maybe she shuts the windows at night

They'll never understand why

Just like they don't now

How could one hide

The hideous scars?

They stretch over her skin
Embracing darkly
"It's okay, love, it never would have."

Scars
Which build her a cage
As a homecoming gift

Guess she used to look up

Now she contemplates the ground

A broken umbrella
Can hide the stars just fine

And when she sees him -
Nothing as cold as steel
For they never were sane or same
No, only a faint question.
Does he still feel the beats?

Stop writing about fear, love.

Earthly.

Across dimensions, remember?

Belief.

"Belief," she said. "What a funny idea. It can't possibly change anything, so what's the use?"

"Why, my dear," he said, "of course it can!

"In fact, I believe it changes everything."

Verge.

A window open on both sides for you
I'm always there waiting and watching, it's true
You know I've been waiting so long to be seen
Now let's shoot into the cosmos on a silver screen

Run.

A calling to run

Wishes rise on my skin

Let's escape again

The walls wait to shatter

Can we run for our lives,

Standing there in the golden light?

Just like we do now

On every rainy day

Sanity.

I've decided
That there's a photograph I need
To be hanging in my room
A little piece of sanity
I cling to you

Every.

Because just between you and me,

They can't ever make us

Grow up.

Waking.

Lying beneath the curtains of fear

Traveling through thoughts oscillating

The constellations of late morning

Parting a way through my consciousness

Stepping, enamored,

Exhale

As eyes survey and find warmth

Smile

It taps on the deepest bones

Which ache,

But refuse to crumble

Ready?

Together.