Silver arrangements
like diamonds on the dinner plate
you're a specter in that chair
coaxing me with your vacant stare
tangled linens
wrapped around your phantom limbs
you're a ghost in the hall
you haven't slept here at all
toneless words
catching flight on a windless night
calling out to me in whispers sweet
I'll be home soon, I'm coming home

I am glue drying in the sun
Stuck here on the pavement of frustration
I am Flowing from an ink pen
When no ink will come
Prisoner to imagination with no paper in sight
I write on my hands
It bleeds through my flesh
Permeates the expanse
And I collapse on top of the night

What did you do
To make me bleed?
What have did you do
To fight the rebellion
In the confines of your need?

Withering Tree

Withering tree
give your beauty
to me
raging storm
give all your strength
to me
because
my collapsing arms
have died in defeat
There's too much
to discern
from this back seat
what will we do
when this shallow world
breaks open
and bleeds?
I've slipped my finger
inside the holes
but I can't hold
the sea
would you come and wrap
your arms
come and wrap them
around me

Heavy Misfortune

Paddling up stream
taking in water
press against
the shore
never been here before
the trees all bend and sway
while the birds all scatter
its getting hotter
than ever before

You can't scratch the itch
you'll make the floodgates break
you can't push the dam
with just a little taste
make me forget
don't make me wait
I've been biding my time
Now let the water take

I can feel the heat
trail my hands across
the wall
getting darker in this place
getting daker all around
oh my eyes, my eyes
they deceive me, now
oh my lips, my lips
they won't scream aloud

The waters coming in
its coming in  now
licking cross my toes
curling all around
I'll be drowning in the
waves
its catching up too fast
here it is at last
head under water

Mauraders on the town

Robbery runs thick through this town
gun slingin and violent
throw downs
come in like a thief in the dark
leave me stranded
with a broken heart
lone
rider on the open road
stretching for miles
till heaven knows
take take take
take as much as you can
won't be coming this way
again
golden sands tickle at your face
memorize the sun
remember this place
wind at your back you fly
got somewhere to be
tonight
take take take
take as much as you can
won't ever be coming
this way again
ride the storms
ride the wind
ride like the vultures
when they spin and spin
take take take
take as much as you can
won't be coming back
this way again

This is where it all
comes down
to the point of
you and the world
beginning fresh
like a tidal wave
rushing
I long to exist.
Spinning, circling, diving
coming up for air
I'm barely breathing
sputtering for one
single moment
to pass me through.
I know, I know, I know
that I need to keep
pushing harder still
stay above the pressing waves
before I am lost.
But me, I am a fool
I lay here on my back
resist the truth
letting it all around me
splash and suck me down.
Take it out
take it out, take it out
all you dedicated soldiers
we keep on getting so much older
and we can't battle time.
Floating now
just absorbing
gentle water slowly lapping
at my ankles
and for one blissful second
I am free.