If I can't see it, I don't believe it

Ships sailing in the sea

We are, together, driving

Alternate our eyes from face to feet

Such a thrilling feeling lurks in the thoughts that swing me

Back and forth inside the waves

What’s this fear and what is this pain

Does it always remain the same

Did I feel it yesterday

Black and dark over the edge

Laughing, moving, breathing, feeling

One moment, not looking

Every minute, not seeing

What is that beneath the surface

Look longer

Perceive it

It was always there, my dear

Circling beneath the water

It was always there, and you were just a child

Just a silly bag of wishes, bones, and blood

This temporary sway will pass

These eyes will melt

The brown will bleed

You’re a simpleton for looking

Your hollow heart suggests other reasons and meanings

Believe them and fade

The Burden

I have everything I need when it comes to everything I haven’t asked for

I’d ask for more but I know you would not believe me

You never believe me when I speak

In a whisper that you find peculiar

A peculiar part to the story I told you

Would I had the time to tell you the hard parts

The parts that make me sit in the dark for hours and hours

Tracing my hands just for the feeling

Oh it’s not much to tell

I can’t tell it all

It sounds like you need me

You need me to sit down

And recant my sighs

I’m sorry I feel it

I’m sorry you need it this way

Yesterday felt like today and today’s like it was last weekend

In the Afternoon I Think of You

So, I said, where are you now, out loud, as if to someone

Are you in my head, or beyond these waves, just here, just there

Do you dance with fates and sing out loud just how you’ve won

Are you sitting still and hearing nothing

Can you bear that silence

Do you bear it well

Can you collapse with all your faults, lying still to soak it up

The smell so thick of what perfume

Do you love yourself like I love you

Swift Ends

Beached up, the anthem caller

Scours ore my bones in search of want

He spews each insult down below

Traipsing the earth, each step a hammer

That clangs a foreboding note,

Relentless piper, merciless joke

What wrongs had I so sorely lost

The caller sounds, not done, not done

Ears about me closed and mild

But I, the worse in mind, fault found

Wildly bracing infinite fears

Absolved to gather together my bones

Let loose a breath and draw my steps

Take heed and rest each one asunder

The padded stones beneath this skin

Would quake and rock this fate foreseen

Cackling calls, the breath so foul that burns my neck

Oh hopeless to shame for lit flame blown away

Hath but one unkempt stone did fall

Alas my days O’re this wild shoreline doth end

Sweet the prayers that with terror flow

He sees me not but I cannot last

The icy hot from muscles grows

A rabid call cannot be quenched

Must I myself subdue the right

Lay lustfully with wrong to speak aloud

Did call this anthem song toward

The piper’s lips to braise my soul

At last an agony foretold wouldst end

3 Seconds

I softly push against the air

With tender feet

Apple blossoms in my hair

The spray of salt,

Swift and fleeting, reminds me

Of our presence in the world

Eyes closed to the sun

Three seconds above the earth

Floating over what has passed

Nothing came or was before this

Three seconds above the earth

Trance-the clap against the road

You’re dark and pale,

Ominous tonight

A click of doors

Pace my breath in each rapture

Small fears of twisted seconds

Eyes closed to the moon

Three seconds above the earth

Dripping in the night

Sink the cells that cause the future

Three seconds above the earth

I was taken in your vapor

And it was rapture passing through my being