chiaroscuro

Wishing for a summer sky Drizzled misery in a shower of silver No one sees the black eyes Watching their feet plod onwards A scarf bound neck Cold hands Open lips     A forgotten name The tired sky creeps above Weary people trying to live The sun sighs with them Waiting to sink below the horizon Haunted shaking of chia seeds Floating clothes Pink and and white peonies Ivory soap like the gleam of the pearl The world spins on an axle The blood in our veins courses We live our lives in a constant rush Even when standing still.

Rich ruby red running 'round her dyed palms Filling fingers with fine flinty filigree Entangling her, entrancing her, ensorcelling her For making blood is easier than making love I saw a golden face in a sea of white Sparkling like some sort of divine ghouls I called out for them, for maybe we can be friends But all they do is cackle, and then vanish If a hand holds another, and then let go Are they still holding hands? No one really knows unless they had once held a hand And then had to let go Swooping hand in a bold script Marching across a dotted line We could've done this easily But you just had to press the case A murky sky and a grumpy cat She sat curled in a sodden pile But then he invited her in to a warm house And now she's dry and purring

I've got that race in my blood Wishing for a marathon Heart pumping fierce unadulterated surging forward on pointed toes Gleeful eyes, crazed eyes a little too wild for their tastes But I've got the playing cards in my hands Red and black and mine So I guess I'll play along Games can be fun when you know what you're doing.

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...