Burn the world
And drown the sun
Bleed the sky
And shatter the earth
What was past is breaking
What is future haunts my dreams
And ever onward sits the raven
Perched above
Expecting
Waiting for falter
Waiting for ruin
Made broken
I tire
And waking is no blessing
For a man
Whose lived past his time
Time slipping by
Drifting out
Forming waves
Crashing into a future
With you
Destination and journey unfurl
All that was becomes prelude
To an is
That is us
A few steps more
Times passage marked by love
And all will be changed
All in
Always
On swift wings
Through haze of pain
Waits the eyes
To close in slumber
And drift away
To the simple shelter
Of unswept dream
Lyrics yet to be sung struggle out
Yearning to quiver and shake
Swallowing back syllables
No voice loud enough to be heard
Stifled
Fighting for breathe
Pleading eyes
Begging to be known
That distant air
Promises made
Always one more to keep
One more to make whole
Distant thunder
Storm blessed
Sky drawn
Woken anew and shift gold
Breaks broken
Arrows flown true
Time for us
One more turn on the wheel
Times ticking down
Months fade to days
Wondering what’s next
Daring to hope
Waiting for the step
The fall
Paths branching out
I hope
Taking steps
Eyes open
Heart full
Shadows dance behind closed doors
Kiss me sleeping
Breathe dry
Heat and blinking
Insomnia and anxiety team up
Hope watching you sleep isn’t creepy
Too tired to close my eyes
Dreading the coming day
Freight train approaches
Standing on the tracks
No certainty but uncertainty
Looking towards that future
That horizon
Wondering what’s next
A fish out of water
In a new pond
I’ll flourish
But too much
Becomes toxic shock
And no one notices until you’re gone
Seeing what happens
When the air gets thin
Wondering
If a new lake will make things better
Wondering
And sitting here awake
Too tired for dreaming
Hoping to see
To real-ize a future
Where being stuck won’t pass for
Stability
I have looked into empty rooms searching for you
I wake up feeling you there
Just out of reach
My hand questing out
Finding emptiness
I have searched in other people’s bodies
In their lips, in their hearts
Looking for someone I hadn’t yet met
Wrapped and drowning in grief for a past that I could not let go
I wandered
Always knowing that with love a heart expands to encompass all
And each small light
Never quite right
Some almost but never realizing
How close
Until
eventually
Heart broken and mending
Waking
Finding
And seeing
Into the void of was
Poured secrets and hopes
Until unexpected
Unknown
Fires woke
No small flame fed on flash paper
Magma and storm
Heightening each other
And joined
Joined
Hearts entwined
And waking
No one mourns the spider
Trapped by its own prison
Each change a shiver
No rest
Waking for maybes
For might haves
The next and the next
Blurring into
Alien falseness
Waking from dreams
To find new responsibilities
Drowning bit by bit
Time slows
Rightasyouwantittospeedup
But
Slow is
Better
Slow let’s you experience it all
Let’s every minute flake away
Dropping
drifting
A touch lingers forever
A lifetime in a moment
Life accelerates on its own
No point in wishing the future
It comes whatever we desire
The minutes slip away
Each breathe one more sliding step
One more yawning dark
Until all prices are paid
Until hopes diminished flame
Snuffs out
And sorrow reclaims her place
As the only lover who stays
