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.