Archive for October 2011
Chateau
Can I hide here
under the vacuum?
Constantly watching.
Constantly judged.
Fence is too high.
I may never get tall enough.
I’ll wait for it to come down.
Waiting.
Tawny
The red sneaks through.
I am troubled.
Can’t believe what you have done.
I read.
The world needs to hear,
but no one is listening here.
There are people listening,
on the other side.
You’re almost there.
A few more steps.
You’ve been on this path before.
Begins to look familiar.
I lost it.
But it’s not mine to lose.
Remember the end of July.
I lost it.
Zero/Five
A laugh that echoes in the heart,
from a joke too funny.
A smile that stretches around the world
and back into my eyes.
A memory of not what we did,
but what was said, and where.
A dancer in her own mind,
a happy girl in mine.
Down The Road
Find my imperfections.
Add up all my wrongs.
Put together every miserable moment.
It’s long,
the time it takes to heal.
I was a battleship,
and I won the war.
Pick yourself up.
You’re mighty,
you’re strong.
Realize all the bad there was,
to make you forget the good.
Down the road you’ll see.
Opal
In this time of scary ghosts and trick-or-treat,
the orange sky flirts with the rainfall.
I absorb it through the open glass.
You can touch the crisp cold.
Silhouettes of leaves on the branches
resemble dim lights on a Christmas tree.
If only we could light them
then maybe others could spot the beauty.
Through the looking glass
Fall into the hole.
I can see it on your face.
It’s broken.
But pick yourself back up.
Say what you think.
Say what you mean
Hold it in your court.
Ricochet off your heart.
And into the color!
And into my arms.
Follow the road into the stars.
The ones we saw through the looking glass.
Don’t listen to the bird,
it’s lying.
The roses don’t speak
in the belt.
Never Easy
Hardest thing to do.
Tough to look in the eye.
Why can’t this be easier,
even when you know it’s right?
Bombarded with yells.
Arguments attacked.
Why didn’t you love me
the way I loved you?
You simply don’t understand.
You just don’t listen.
I just hope you know what you’re losing.
I do.
Magellanic
To stand atop this star,
laying our eyes on the speed down below.
It was easy to breathe with time.
We are what make this shine.
We have to land eventually.
So, let us teach them what we’ve seen.
Something of a tiny atom brain.
We are all the same.
Equal Sign
Remember the beauty?
I found it, hiding underneath the shade
from the trees that lie overhead.
Remember the snow?
It poured on our faces.
We tasted.
A Thanksgiving gift awaits you.
I couldn’t be more happy for you.
Bring him in.
Show him all you know.
Teach him how to see,
how to love everyone.
Trickle
Silence. Peace.
The darkness mirrors a quieter time.
A text from the future.
My head cluttered.
Rapidly changing.
The lights from a car.
Where did this all come from?
I never did have my own backyard.
I sit here to breathe.
To stare at the nebulae.
One flight up.
I wish I could be higher.
Your voice is calming.
My voice is tired.
I see the light slowly flashing above our city.
Let me change my pace.