chiaroscuro

When you enter a room the lights seem to brighten Casting your figure in an unforgettable silhouette Magnet eyes and a determined demeanor, you carry on I wish you would wander a little but your steps never waver The world is a messy place, I know that better than anyone But sometimes I let myself dream a little, wonder a little Of what it would be like to share a piece of me with you To share something more than mundane moments I know that you are standing on a pedestal I created You blink in the glare of my conjured spotlight Something in me that whispers that you won't like it And so I drown in my own whirlpool, and I drown alone You walk on, all unknowingly of my own plight I like to break hearts but these days all I break is my own Why must I do this to myself, flogging my own back Weeping over something too close and yet too far I know more than anyone what it's like to be in the light It's not me standing there, it's a gold replica Some

I dream of your dark dark eyes And wonder about the warmth in my chest I see the stories and the tabloids And like all of my kind we scoff How can that ever happen? Are you out there somewhere? Looking up at the same sky, treading the same earth Wondering about the words in my mouth The flutters in our hearts Are you out there somewhere? I could walk on forever, trying to keep my head down Honestly it's not too hard to stay this way I can just stay quiet and quick To escape the nets of dooming love Perhaps this makes my life easier But are you out there? Looking for me in the smiles of your friends Grasping for the warmth in another hand Maybe the moon is playing tricks on our eyes But are you out there? Maybe one day we will meet And like all stories we begin unknowingly But then we will one day realize That we are right here Holding onto each other For now I'll bide my time I'll play a game of counting the minutes But I'm always wonderi

There's a cavity in your chest My hands clutched around a seething mass We're dripping to the floor Oozing between the forgotten cracks I see salt on your cheeks There's some on mine You want to reach for the gold in my heart But I shrink and shift away For once we're all amnesiacs Pretending to forget about that clouded day We dance on naked blades And joke about our blood-stained feet It's a bass line, a sort of rock n' roll We only hear the drums and the blaring guitar No one speaks about the subtle ache The plea in the deep strumming in our heads They say to salvage what was once torn I can't grab enough threads to work with All my fingers are pointed needles Perhaps if you look at me I can look back For now there's a tentative alliance The world is too big of an threat to ignore The enemy of my enemy is my friend But I guess for now that's all we are.