SUNDOWN

Let's watch the sun set
Let's watch the world end,
Silent night
Through your eyes
Black and white sight,
The fireworks will be muted
And the stars will be rubbed out,
No commotion
Just a slow motion
Long kiss goodbye

FADED

I don't want to have to miss you,
The memories won't be enough
And my memory is bad
Rough around all the edges
So maybe in time I'll remember your brown eyes
As blue,
Swimming pools
And I can't swim good

OXYMORON

I give him the time of day and
He makes all days look like night, Dark
A shade away from midnight
A mark away from bruised,
He is the dimmest brightest light
The coldest warmest air
That I both inhale and exhale
I hate and I love him
And it hurts all the same

LOST

We move lightly,

Slightly edging towards the edge,

One pill apiece etched to the tip of our tongues

Swallow on the count of ten,

Follow that look in your eyes as

They roll to the back of your head

And I see you as though you are see-through,

There's acid dissolving down your throat

Nonchalance in your heart

And a fire in your belly

Swelling like a bruise

Consuming you, consuming me

Mostly me,

We move lightly

Silently we explode

BEGINNERS

Cut a long story short. The end.

PUSH

When it breaks it sounds like dust
falling
Silver notes settling,
It's more beautiful shattered
than whole,
And bruises are just scattered patterns
that fade
And grow old
She can't be told.

ELEVEN

I feel so cheated out of knowing you
Knowing me
And knowing nothing first hand
Just second hand passed down,
Over time what's mine becomes blurred
And I don't know what's real to me
Or a cut out figurine
Of imagination

EASY TARGET

I hope I put a spanner in your works,
I hope I ruin your life
With little effort,
Maybe a half smile
That weakens your knees,
Changes the way you breathe
Heart palpitations when I walk through your mind,
And you find in moments of clarity or in dreams
I am all you see
An amalgamation of everything you need.

BLEEDING LINES

If the pen is not my friend,
This is the end.

THE INSIDE IS BLANK

Not as in a canvas that can be painted on,
Or a page that can be written on
As in empty,
And I'm venting because there's nothing behind your eyes
Or in the lines of your veins
It's as though nothing remains
Or maybe there was nothing to begin with at all
And there should be a warning sign,
Mind the hole
If you enter you will fall.

EVERYWHERE

You are here, and here
The creases in the clouds
And the crevices between the branches in the trees
The cascading leaves,
The cracks in the pavements
Leading to back street memories
The spilt Hennessy leaking down the drain,
The same air that when inhaled
Impales and winds from the inside
The walls have eyes
I can't hide from you.

KNOCK KNOCK

Imagine if people could barge in on your thoughts,
At any time
Unbeknownst to you
Listen in to the intimate things, minute by minute
That you dare to think because they're private
At times volatile and brutally honest
But because they're only thought and not uttered
No one is hurt or wounded by the venom in your words
So just imagine if they heard
The inner verses outer line shattered.
Everything laid bare
No one spared.

FAVOURITE SONG

And now when I listen to my favourite songs
I don't hear the lyrics sang
But the conversations we had
Whilst they played in the background
Against a back drop of long laughs,
Birds tweeting
Flower buds that look like bells ringing,
And there's a pang in the pit of my stomach
At this part
Where you started to say something
But dismissed it as a silly thing
I know I would have wanted to hear
Because your eyes said enough
And I swear they tore off the first layer of my skin
Penetrating deep within
I know you would have said something
Like how this song begins.

RAIN DANCE

I'm going to pull the petal off every last stem,
Hold it like a gem to the sky
Crush it to dust between my fingers,
Why?
Because we destroy what we love
And when these ash like particles fall,
From high above
They'll hit the ground like silent notes
And we'll dance to the sound of violence.

SWEET DREAMS

Stay out of my dreams,
Don't you think you occupied enough of my day?
And my thoughts, which were all about you
Wondering if you noticed me,
Noticing things about you
And now you creep into my sleep
So my heart flutters even with eyes shutting for the night
You're pulling my inner strings relentlessly
I am a puppet
Dissemble my wings
And I fall hopelessly
Tripping on ecstasy
See,
In my dreams you are,
Bright lights and fire flies and golden eyed and
Precious time and
All mine.

QUIET DOWN

You're so quiet,
She's told, as though it's a bad thing
A negative trait
And she almost feels obliged to string
A sentence together
That probably starts with the weather
And a bunch of other things
That could have gone unsaid
Just talking for the sake of it
To break a bit of the silence
That surrounds us,
But rather than ground it liberates
And that might be why she appreciates,
Silence.
Not the nuisance of words
That tangle and tongue tie
And lie
Silence
No one speak
Just listen.

SUSPENSION

The best part of her day is when it ends,
When she can bury her head
Under a blanket of dark skies,
Not even starry eyes
Penetrate this darkness
It's just miles and miles of
Endless
Seamless, sleep

HALF OF

We're always fine, even when we're not.

SWAN LAKE

If I had your ears,
I wouldn't hear any of the things they whisper
Because you're deaf to it all
If I had your eyes,
I wouldn't see any of the things I've witnessed.
Because you're blind to it all,
If my skin was thick, cushioned for every fall
I wouldn't have so many stories to tell, written so well
In a permanent kind of marker
But dark is light to you
And even birds without wings still take off in flight,
Still soar through jagged clouds,
Bound for the stars and beyond
And below,
The ripples in the water,
Though they speak, you do not listen
The only sound is music
That you dance to, a slow waltz
Faultless in every way you move.

OFF THE WALL

Some may call it by another name

It's all the same to me

Maybe it's a different smile for them than me,

One that shows off deeper lines

And dimmed eyes

I only see light, of the brightest kind

And it bounces around like a torch beam

Gleaming,
Off the ceiling,
Rebounding on the ground
Just follow, it says
I'll show you the way.