Leaving This World
Meet me when I’m walking Down my memory lane Surrounded by supercuts and music Surrounded by you. Meet me when I’m singing Alone, washing the dishes Imagining the way you ate My heart and soul. Meet me when I’m lying Under the midday sun. Crushing the grasses beneath me With the pressure in my mind. […]
Widow of the War Within
Her twisted remorse is caged in a frame Hung in a window of blistering gray Like faces of already forgotten names Fallen like there’s nothing more to say About deeds oblivioned by time and knives And bullets, bloody but blessings disguised For people who care but chose to condemn And live a living lie.
Pretense of Life
Mine is just another dream Except it is a dream, and everything is not as it is When I try to feel Just as how I feel this feeling When I wake up When it’s just a matter of remembering it But the “it” is not what you think it is When the things are […]
Asphyxia
My footsteps touch like fingertips Atop thin ice that barely keeps My arms and legs from iron frame As rusty as a new athame As I retrace the paths I took Reminiscing, re-immersing, Re-emerging from a prison world Beneath the lights, in open mind How bright are they, beyond the walls How far are they, […]
Another Night
I sing alone in my room Imagining the lost days I used to spend with friends As we drove across the freeway We used to laugh at nothing Scream at little things Never seem to care For anything that happens Isn’t it all too strange When you realize the futility Of your greatest escape From […]
Vicinity
Comfortable as I am in this chair of deceit I long for the distance I can, with my feet, Walk under lights of random spheres of fire As vibrant as the colors of the words you speak When you say something to my ears Through long forgotten memories When you sing songs in your sheets […]
Memories of the Future
If I ever lay in a deathbed built upon too much caffeine and lack of sleep The words from my lips will reflect the images of a past Seen through a sunglasses in the summer sun Fearing the heat of the truth will burn me in my last days But these memories from a mother’s […]
Crumble and Fade
I’ve forgotten how it felt waking up Smiling at the wooden ceiling in my room Listening to the chirping of birds Imagining the jungle in a last night’s dream Ever since we slept in this palace Alone with shape-shifting shadows In front of the computer screen Drunk by the thought of each other For all […]