WHAT A NARROW WORLD

What a narrow world
You’ve backed yourself into.
You couldn’t seem to find a door
That you could walk
Forward through.

All the running and the lies
Kept you much too tired to try
To smile into
The mirror that
Reflected on your soul.

We were all exhausted
From the chase to prove you’re worth it
Yet we couldn’t let you sink
And hope you’d swim.

Only since you’re standing still
Are we allowed to know you
And you don’t push us away
Because “alone” no longer feels good.

Standing still was hard for you
So we stood still beside you
Discovering in the stillness
The things that made you run.

Some of them were fears
Creating too much noise within you.
But some were ours
Wrapped up and packaged
Tightly over years.

It’s all so much nothing
Comparing it to life
A blink, a dream,
A flash, it seems
We’ve all awakened
Just before the crash.

BREAKING FREE

Ugly and unkind

will free you

of the latest love

that holds you

back from being able

to explore

the next apparent victim

that you need to get

the things you want

and stave off self reflection

even more.

DON'T!

Arriving at a place

where perfection is

your hand in mine,

is not a simple task

for me...

I can' t speak

for you.

Just when I think I'm there

and your hand's outstretched for mine.

I risk it all to grasp it

just for you to pull away.

Don't ask me back.

Don't beg me stay.

Don't meet me there

then turn away.

Don't turn around

and say you've changed

your mind...

then pull your hand away.

copywrite 2006

TICKER TAPE AND TANTRUMS

Come or go
that's all you do
nothing in between.
Ticker tape and tantrums
surround the drama queen.

U need to get away from me
the problem's not geography
you'll still be where
U think U want to go.

Come or go
that's all you do
nothing in between.
Ticker tape and tantrums
surround the drama queen.

Create a wake
that pulls men under.
Another pass
to do them in.
Enter lives
with deafening thunder
slither out
and leave your skin.

COPYWRITE 2007