Mixed messages

I am sick in love Please take me to the emergency room pump me full of chemicals and leave the light on Please, leave the light on baby There is too much darkness and misery and filth in this torn-up, third-rate world of ours Oh baby, I am sick Sick like plutonium oceans, drowning kittens [...]

Pessimistic Optimism

Clouds break and cascading syrup beams of gold stream down upon a crumbling but, still standing shell of a city that was great - then broken - now, still fighting through blinding blood and pain. Rising silver-laden contrails cover the clouds like a silver sky with a cloud-shaped lining. Above me, red, yellow and purple [...]

Conversations

I say "the time has come now We have to go to sleep" But you want to sing to stars Sweep angels off their feet I say "we need to rest The morning will come soon" "Let it come!" You scream While smiling at the moon "The moon and I have a secret" You say, [...]

Lamentations

stars fall dressed in red and white the chasm of the living room You look up Smile Go back to your book I go back to pretending to exist We lie awake Like strangers in bed Passing ghosts Of a fire left with nothing but ashes Nothing but ashes The arguments are over The stories [...]

Fractured

A loud bang wakes you. You're in bed. Its not your bed. Its just A bed. Its quiet, really quiet. You unball your fists and look around. The room is empty. There are things in it of course; table, television, closet, shelves. Those things don't matter though because something is missing. Something that seems so [...]

A knock, answered

She was like molten sunshine and chocolate All tangled in happiness and light I was rain and ice then She smile and let me in A starved stranger from the cold night And let me warm myself by her voice She was infectious and moved though me Lightning through my cynical, tired bones Stillness of [...]