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I've had a thousand fantasies and only a single life I can count on one hand how many times I've done it And yet I feel uninhibited, drunk on something that's not alcohol Can I grip onto your shirt for purchase, or will you be offended? It's not like me, I have to admit But it is something new, an adventure if you might call it I would like to stay on the ride, please If you don't mind, please, let me stay on for a little longer The air whips past my face, snapping my hair into my cheeks My knuckles can't be whiter, my blood any redder I wonder if I open my mouth Will my entire head swell up like a balloon and blow up? In another universe, I took a steady step forwards and died on the spot No one heard the great tree crashing down on top I wonder if people even knew when they buried my body That I had been rotting away on the inside for a while now The present always beckons, ever persistent like a clock No one waits for you, you have to wai...

Dappled leaves fingering into a cloudless sky I seek the truth in its branches What do you want to know? They whisper And I shrug, nestled in their arms Fey mutterings haunt my ears Ghostly white dresses sweeping the ground Pale hands holding a rusted lantern I hear the wail of the silent lady Tapping fingers on my windows The storm is laughing at the moon I curl up in my watercolor blanket And I listen to the water songs I stand, bell like, in an ocean of black Alone in a sea that sucks and pulls And clings to those who don't know So I drown, in something svelte and something mean Let me try again from the top Rewind the past and let me forget What exactly you meant to me Because otherwise I can't laugh You touch down and land with a careless grace Something quiet unique, something quite marvelous I just can't put my finger on it, that part of you But something deep inside really wants to You are a many folded contradiction   A...

I can't dance alone anymore I'm swaying on the ropes Sleeves trailing through the air Your harmony completes me Your song is my backdrop I just can't find your voice I know you're there Somewhere where I can't see Your harmony is always sweet I'm still dancing alone But I'm dancing to your melody I don't feel so lost I hum to your tune The rhythm of your song It's just a solo, not a duet If you heard me Can you play a little louder? I can't quite seem to hear you Amidst all the static.

Sweet eyes Delicious dark eyes Eyes that look at me I am entranced You sing I hold my breath Your voice rasps Your body sings I can't help but dance along My eye smokes My voice shakes I don't mind at all Crack in the bell Whisper of the spell You must be magic For I am ensorcelled The horizon breaks Your face beams I can't help but melt If I am a symphony You are my conductor My bones are supposed to be strong I guess I hadn't prepared For the way your eyes soften When they take me in Wishing for something Dancing in the dark Open sign flashing Nonchalant beauty Pining and confused We speak Corner of your mouth Tip of my tongue Flash of white teeth Shivering in summer Trembling in the fall Blushing in winter Let's start it all over in the spring Iron heart In the blacksmith's hearth Can you see my pulse jumping? I want to soar over the world But your hand tugs And your fingers intertwine Holding my hand In your lar...

We sit in the empty amphitheatre The sky grumbling above us You have on that thoughtful smile The kind that makes your forehead crinkle You told me you had something on your mind Something quite pressing, quite pressing indeed And I wait, waiting as the sky seethes above Anticipation building like a wave of froth You told me of a ring and a silky white dress A calico cat purring by a puddle of gold And part of me begins to bleed As you cough again, bending like a blade in the wind They say we are material beings Fickle to the passing of the seasons I cannot think of anything else Watching you wane as the trees turnblack It's such a small room, so bare and white Window speckled with frost Coughing smiling sleeping writhing You live the cycle you always wrote about I hold you as you fall asleep Into the dreamless sleep of dreams I weep over the you of yesterday In a silky white dress, a ring of gold And a calico cat sleeping by a puddle of sil...

We see the blood and the feathers We mourn your loss, your hubris and your fall Can you even claw your way back up? You donned the robe of the fire bird   We have told you before   To gain flight, you must burn your heart You soar, but you cannot breathe   You fly, but you cannot see the earth There is no one but the frigid stars to keep you company. A meteor with a golden, fiery tail Blazing furiously through the unforgiving abyss How can this truly be what you want? No longer do you possess humanity There is no beating heart of flesh in your fiery bosom   Nothing but rage and metal and the heat of your fury He had to channel the moon in his veins To raise the ocean to meet the sky He drowned the stars in his tears He forced water into ice, into brittle shards of harm He already buried one golden eyed princess He can do it once more, over and over again. Fire met water in a blaze of steam and rage Mighty grief and migh...

Drifting like a folded paper Slipping between the cracks Wishing for that burning sensation Between my teeth and tongue, tasting summer, savoring fire Steam and smoke, paper pipes Nickels between your fingers Straps and buckles crossing chests Standing at the end of the cross walk Waiting for the lights to turn white Rolling done grey streets My urban fantasy We see those stripes of white Like some cemented ribbons A crown of this city queen Arching tails of ocean spray Liquid jewels gracing the sky's collar I see her ivory hand and her graceful air The great goddess of the sea She nods and sinks below the waves Desert sand and bloodied steel He takes them both in hand Seizing obsidian eyes But there is nothing Between the slave and the wilderness   The sky is a big blue box I'm sitting inside the box Wishing I was in the bigger black box Wanting to see all the floating boxes Shining in the glow of the great yellow box