deceiving sights

to the world I look like I feel like this


but I really feel like this

I've started something I can't finish

for the rest...

this is what's wrong with the world

ah to...be

I'm watching you fall in love
it pains and saves me
knowing hands once held
will always be finger tips away
and smiles I thought lost
were found in reflections
sights and sounds I'd forgotten
repeat on my answering machine
"stop and play just never pause
because right now, you're so beautiful"
more so than that first moment
I fell a little bit
to this day when I still pick myself up
pieces in your way
parts of you I want to stay
so don't go too far
because when I need a reminder
I'll phone you and hear it on your lips
your breath whispering ever so softly
"love is such a beautiful thing
if only you had opened your eyes a moment gentler"
and I'll sigh, the one you know and thank you
yet again. because love. you're such a beautiful thing.

does that quench your thirst?

did you think I wouldn't know?
maybe you thought I was blind to the obvious
the smoke in my eyes wasn't enough though
through the syrupy haze I found truth by my side
right then did I stop wondering why you held my hand
despite everything you still held me close
wasted trips to then and tomorrow

this is show and tell.

a day or so ago whispered once

popping sounds of electricity jump down power lines in and out of audibility competing with the chirping of a bird in search of a mate to consume our hearing and fuel a thought
where are you going?
"where am I going?"
where am I coming from?
"where am I coming from?"

the answers don't think themselves up. opportunity sprung from the underbrush takes flight and a ride downtown finds our chi in order, wholesome and full speeding down the glass tracks waiting to break at the right frequency. a hum and a chirp in a world of silence.

a city finds me in her womb. dollars to my name, cold breaths driving a search for warm to bring feeling back to lost toes--but can a person be lost if they have no destination in mind? for there is everywhere to go and I only want to go with you home is by your side hours away from these towering humant hills. the workers teaming to live. living to die for a little more.

but not you and I.

I live for another moment with you. it's such a tease. being so close to you and a lifetime away. by my lonesome I could sit for times past and write novellas about the beautiful children we'll have, the winters we'll curl up infront of the fire. and how much I miss you a little voice in the back of my mind whispers to me. singing me to sleep. sweet memories of you on repeat in my dreams. I'm tired of this rewind though. I'd like to play through fast forward where I'll stop in your arms.