There are no words...

Tense

Breathe

Rip

Squeeze

Drip

Blot

Red

Dot

Dark

Hold

Wait

Release

Pain

Repeat

The paper bleeds...

No Good Reason

I will hurt you
It’s only a matter of time
I will desert you
Just get in line
I’m not here for your forgiveness
But I’m ready to apologize
‘Cause I will hurt you
With no good reason why

Heathern

And this is how we fall apart
We'll rush the stage and crash
Right into the lights that blinded our ambitions

And this is where the fun will end
When truth is worth its weight in breathing
Halfway there, we're halfway home

And this is my brain on you
Eclipsing every regret, moment by moment
With your warming smile

And this is the twisting spine
A collapse within my wrenching gut
How much I miss what I can't hold

And this is both sides of a flattened coin
Cooling slow on abandoned train tracks
My heart reaching over like weeds in the wild

apple pie illusionist

where could i find you
where have you gone
i used to walk beside you
we used to be so strong
and fear was a distraction
but it kept me by your side
this desperate interaction
the place where my hopes would hide

but there's no future in the waiting life
regrets are not a friend as loyal as i'd ask
and dreams have come to questions and the waking "why"
as fragile as the glass face of your compass

where did i lose you
and when did i care
i seem now to fall through
this drowning affair
and love was an ambition
that i sought with half my heart
but for lack of true contrition
i don't know where to start

'cause there's no rhyming with words left unsaid
melodies of innocence lost to the monsters in your mind
my past a skeleton i carry on my back to praise the dead
forsaking all delusions of attempts at a better life

that was then
this is now
it will always be

In Hiding

These roads lie
Intertwine and divide
Beneath shifting skylines
Redefining my night time

This sleeplessness
In reckless bliss
And emptiness
Circumventing callouses

A dark embrace
Shadows on her face
From a distant place
Unknown to retrace

What I wish is a dream
No one knows what I mean
I'll rip you out by the seams
But your face still beams

Are you everything I need
Sit here crying where I bleed
Warnings die when children heed
Silence where the ravens feed

Your Heart is a Crime Scene

What am I doing?
Countless faces, and I, the clumsy diver
I fall headlong into the one
This one, the one whose every footstep
Encompasses a hundred miles
And even now this (relatively) short distance
Is my own resistance exemplified

Fears in trembling hands
Not unlike cell-phone static
The weak signal of the temporal backbeat
Verisimilitude for grossly inopportune reflections

And I sit and wonder at the blinking eye of time
I sit as a frog on a lily pad, contemplative of the flies
I sit as a coyote, hoarse from howling all night
I sit as a moonbeam upon your eyelash
Glistening before the tears even form beneath
Winked away in a false flirting gesture
To prove the sweet to your bitter
The sweat to your labored breaths

For don't we all build in love's dark caverns
A halfway house for our once captive hearts
And sit on a creaking stool
In the kitchen of childlike wonder
Chewing on the edges of despair
Dreading and dreaming the day a knock is heard
The door swinging open
A perfect moment held in time

But my house has been built with rickety boards
The creaking floors are marked with scuffs
The ears of the walls have grown deaf to screams
And there is a scent of old death in the air

Convince it is not so, and I am forever yours
Try to convince me, and I will hear no more of you

Interesting

who's to say i want perfection
destiny has a tragic tone, don't you think
i guess i'll walk this road and take the long way back
fall in love with the idea of being alone, unknown, and sink
even deeper into your eyes

who's to say i need direction
whoever found their own way following the maps others made
i'll trip and fall, but cuts and bruises, broken bones don't fail me now
it's easier to stray then stay inside these lines that fade
even deeper into your eyes

who's to say anything is safe
walk the cliff edge because the air tastes sweeter
i'd jump with you if you asked me to
twists and turns in my head still playing follow the leader
even deeper into your eyes

who's to say i need more than a moment
take my breath and don't stop believing
there's a thousand things you're saying in the space between
i'm not finished yet just synchronizing this silly dreaming
even deeper into your eyes

who's to say that rain ever smelled this new
take my coat while we walk in each other's oversized shoes
the wind waltzes with your hair across your glowing face
the soft unknown as we talk, and i'm falling farther, falling through
even deeper into your eyes