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.

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...