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.

SECRET GARDEN

I know a place, if you'll let me show you,
If you'll be led by a willing hand,
I'll take you down a sloping path.
And here the sun rises just to bathe you in light
And you're an illuminous light, that blinds the eyes
And the trees are you,
The air is you
The ground, and the sky rise and fall with you.

EUPHORIA

Sometimes,
I wish
I could bottle That feeling of
Complete Euphoria,
And get drunk Off it later.

BROKEN

I found your keys down the back of the sofa

And I took this as a sign,

A sign that it was over

It was the positioning, they looked perfectly placed

And far from lost

Instantly I recognised, your resignation

I'd seen it before,

Taking one glass down for a solo drink, left in the sink,

Leaving as I enter a room

And it feels as though I'm breathing for two,

Because you walk around as if you're almost dead

And buried somewhere beneath

Your brown eyes

Are the reasons why, but they don't look into mine anymore

They look ahead at a sailing ship

Ebbing towards an unknown address

It's a burdened boat and from where I'm standing

Everything on it might just drown.

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN

She's not concerned with the right one,
Just anyone, so she's not alone
So when the light falls away
The night can be crushed between bones,
Some already breaking from the night before
And the best part, the morning after, after they've gone
She can wipe away
The lingering rings of wine glass stains
That say, someone else was here.

BLIND

When you showed me your true colours,
I'll admit I could see nothing else clearly after
And even when I looked away
My vision was like looking through a kaleidoscope
An impaired view
And everything ordinary was now askew
But more beautiful
Until I close my eyes,
So I can't close my eyes, can't fall asleep
Because these are infinite dreams I see
Playing out in front of me.