Photographer

Capturing moments

that never even exist
Reality cripples

and still you persist

Light damages the lenses

As truth damages hearts

Not exactly a thing that cleanses

but still a selfless art.

An image is worth a thousand words

but words are useless

just like your toothless lies

that scatter with the flight of birds.

She dances across your eyelids

Just like all the others did

Perhaps they'll return with a glimmer

or slip away as the memories grow dimmer.

At a glance you're beautiful

but you lead to nowhere

do you dare

sitting there

in that dashing sweater
made of wool.

Sweet disposition
if those fingers could stroke your cheek

and linger, so tender and meek

to show you, give you permission

You can have her, but you've got to take her
She'll run away, don't make her.

Beseech her

Reach her

Hold her

Mold her

Into your curves

Into your art

Don't let them

tear her apart.

When Boy Meets Girl

Dance like stars
And fall like rain
Run like the wind
and cripple like pain.

The grass changed green over night
and pollen covered flower's sight

Dreaming between sheets
of two different worlds
longing for the moment
when boy meets girl.

The make-up rubbed from my eyes
Elbows resting upon my thighs
Secretly smiling to myself
Dreaming of taking my heart off the shelf.

But I am afraid to show it to you
Kept in a jar, cracked and abused.

I decided to give you a chance
But it slipped from your fingers
Watched it shatter with only a glance
and still the brokeness lingers.

I sat in the floor
and stared at the bits
until a knock on the door
saved me from my fits.

A long, moaning creak
as I took a peek
to see who it might be
and indeed I'd see

That it was you
remaining true
to that pact
coming back
to patch the cracks.

I jumped into your arms
forgetting the harm

The air began to swirl
as our feet left the ground
in a tumultuous twirl
a new healing was found.

I smiled up at you
You smiled down at me
At the secret we knew
that set us free.

You grabbed my hand
and we took off running
Never had we felt so grand
or looked so stunning.

I knew this was my future unfurled,
and in my shoes my toes curled,
this was the moment of  boy meets girl.

Mojo - Inspired by a True Story

Wind in the water
Joy on the breeze
A poets words
With naked knees

Tired tongues
Air-tight lungs
Feet on fire
World of desire
Clad in plaid

Dream in cream

Running until our legs gave out

You strummed on my heart strings with clout

A mild spirit
That helped me take flight
Like the airplanes overhead
I scaled the sky, away from my plight

This cavity of sorrow
Would surely have swallowed me whole
Had I not taken this risk,

Given you control

I don't know what Fate expects
Or what Destiny brings
But I won't hide within these fairy rings

Wishing for love
Hoping for joyWandering this Earth
With such an enchanting boy

I found my way home
Your ghost in the passenger seat
Where next will we roam?
I wondered, with a curiosity sweet

I dream of driving with you
Down the road to nowhere
Singing at the tops of our lungs
Melodies reflecting a heart so bare

So bare and untouched
A fear we had clutched
now releasing, and we're singing:

"What made me behave that way?

Using words I never say

I can only think it must be love

Oh, anyway, it's looking like a beautiful day

Someone tell me how I feel

It's silly wrong but vivid right

Oh, kiss me like the final meal

Yeah, kiss me like we die tonight

Cause holy cow, I love your eyes

And only now I see the light

Yeah, lying with me half-awake

Oh, anyway, it's looking like a beautiful day

So throw those curtains wide.

One day like this a year'd see me right."

Song Credit = One Day Like This by Elbow

We Ran

Dark New Day

All Hope Lost

Never a day like this

Never such a sorrow

Feet on the Floor

Dragging my soul

behind me

I washed

and left

They met me

down the road

carrying baskets

full of flowers and spices

Through the trees
and seas of tears
we tread

Guarded
Tomb
Stone
Death was here

A lightening countenance
robes white as snow
They fainted

Rolled Away
Brand New Day
We stood Trembling

He was Gone
The Clothes Discarded
No longer broken hearted

My heart beat
out of my chest
picking up my feet
I ran for the rest

My soul arose to Heaven
I felt like I could fly
I didn't understand it
because I'd watched him Die

But I had faith
I'd Believe
His face and scarred
Hands I'd seen

I made it to the door
threw it open wide
a smile danced on my lips
and I shouted,
Jesus is Alive!

Heart on a page

Whatever tomorrow brings

I'll be there

the words I long to hear

with a meaning so sincere

I'll know they truly care

Am I anything more than

a name scribbled on a note,

just something that you wrote,

or do I have a chance?

Can I look into your eyes

finding a wonderful suprise

of tenderness and kisses

possibly laughter and wishes

or will it be my demise?

What is love? Is it real?

is it better to feel

or be numb to experience no pain

but there'd be nothing to gain.

Am I worth the effort,

worth the time,

worth the moment when you become mine?

Or is it just more proof

that all of you are distant and aloof?

"Nobody wants to be the last one there"

so where, oh where, are you?

I fall quickly and way too far

over and over

I don't know who you are.

A sense of solitude without peace

bondange without release

I've never been so crippled

so crumpled and ripped

so unable to stand

not able to grasp who I am.

I know what I want

but it's a matter of me finding him

or him finding me

maybe one day I'll truly see

that I don't need you to live

to move on and forgive

but still the hurt touches my soul

shreds me to pieces

keeps me from becoming whole

I know you're out there

somewhere

you're thinking of me

I'm thinking of you

wondering if this true love deal

is actually true.

I'm searching

I'm waiting

I'm lurching

I'm hating

I"m longing.

My darling, my love

I don't know when and

I don't know how

but I want you

I need you

and I'm ready now.