Saturday, June 27, 2015

Shock.

There's something about not getting enough sleep
Something about how the days bleed together
And we live with eyes wide open
And souls wide awake
Resting in all the words you say

Winds streaking in
Evening showers
Your love is a fairy tale
There's a red glimmer in their eyes
As oceans roar and as I know why

Hang this truth up for the soul to see
Sleeping in my clothes
Dreaming about falling
See, it doesn't feel like home
I'm waking up alone

Waking up to sun
An aching hole in my chest
Five days fall flat
I can feel you near
Take the beauty, bring it here

Friday, June 19, 2015

Meaning.

Yeah, he may be in the backyard
But I still think of the first time we built a fire

The sunset's playing in the street
Right where your car should be

She dresses in old clothes
And has this idea of who she is

This is the only room
In the house, he says
Where you can look out the window
And see just sky

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Tide.

A new picture occupies the old frame
The clear plastic of last summer
Holds a clear picture of today
It's the same size but vastly larger
And I think about my sister
Who is very much at home
And I wonder what the view is from heaven

The word is not quite "again"
For my patterned thoughts still wander
And each grand story has different chapters
Mat got my letter
And I wonder who gives Jon coffee in the afternoons
And will you be gone in July
And how close are we to a symphony

Used to be afraid of monsters
Now we're afraid of ourselves
Guess you could say that the nightmares never really changed
But there's this house on the lake
And as we're driving there I can see my city
The neighbor boy is laughing
I can hear it through my window

Blurred faces in blurred photographs
The colors can bleed but they are still so bright

Life is a beautiful paradox -

Monday, June 8, 2015

Shadow.

Thank you.
However, I can't understand what you're saying to me, and I need to let you go.
The connection is really bad.
I will send you my goodnight wishes.
Thank you.

Crash.

Two siblings rise at dawn
Two siblings sleep into late morning
I am lying beneath sunlight
But I am not really here

Lights on the water
We find our souls beneath the surface
And she hides hers away 
For it has come up darker than the others

She is tangled up in cords of you
I am trying to find her
She is hiding from me
For I have become the reflection

Infection.

"Lo and behold, I bring you truth."

Monday, June 1, 2015