New Path

It's not an easy road
That lays ahead for me
But the easy road
Led me nowhere

That I haven't already been

Chicken

And very soon it became obvious
That she couldn't say I love you
Because she didn't love him
And she didn't love him

Because she couldn't say I love you

Fire

You'll only be
Attracted to me
For as long as I
Am attracted to her

I know all you want is the fire

Lost Opportunity

I don't love this
This thing we've become
Where I beg and plead
And you cringe and despair

Why did you waste our time away

Trepidation

Fun and games
Isn't enough for me either
I don't think you want what I have
To offer beyond the joys of my tongue

In fact I know it makes you afraid

Blow

I've unplugged the fan
The air is stagnant
You search for the window
To let some fresh air in

Or let yourself out, I'm not sure

Inklings

Boredom is cruel
It repels us from those
Whom are full with lessons
And attracts us to those whom

Have shown us all they ever will

We Should Talk

Now you want the
Satisfaction of my confessional
So you can say you came clean
And face yourself in the morning

But never have to face me again

Under The Rug

You won't know
How much I wanted
You to hold me
You don't want to know

How much I wanted

Ashore

Do the crashing waves
Delight you so much
That my destruction
At your side

Would lull you to sleep

Reserves

Your energy
Is stronger than mine
But I run my tank efficiently
In order to have some ready

To lend you when you've exhausted yours

Cutting

Your cruelest
Form of sarcasm
Is sounding genuine
When making an absurd comment

Like, for instance, you love me

Asphyxiation

You're just missing out
On so much happiness
Trying to quell mine
In any case I'll let you dwell

If it makes you happy

What Gain

Why would you want
Someone who feels
So ugly inside already
To feel uglier by realizing

Again that you will never want me

King Size

It's hard laying
Peacefully next to you
Knowing you would
Rather have this

Bed to yourself

My Song

He would be
No better at loving me
Than you despite his great effort
I want someone who enjoys my song

Instead I have two people who detest it

Unceremonious

Dearly beloved
Makes you shiver
Tossing and turning looking for
The warmth of knowing those words

Won't ever have to be ours

Cauldron

You're dying inside
Instead of living inside
You took my breath away
Yet now you can't breathe

Was my love a potion or toxin

Presented

Don't sit with me
Don't stand by me
Don't run with me
Don't leap for me

I was already in you

Scattered

Art is an escape
Yours and everyone else's
I haven't the slightest idea
How to lose myself in you

Perhaps no escape is necessary

Shores

These winds
Bring great tidings
The scent of your hair
The sound of your voice

Across the waves crashing between us

For the Taking

I don't want to say
That I deserve these lips
But i truly believe everyone
Deserves happiness, and

Your lips are all I know with that to offer

Dwell

Some people have evolved
To look up to the stars for salvation
While others still search underground
Bottom feeding without any understanding

Of the sky's role in even that

Throughout

I'll love you
Til it scares you
And I'll love you
Til it's the only thing

That makes you feel safe

Lighthouse

Wish you could see
What I'm looking at
You only face yourself
In the dark, these days

You forgot how bright you are

Louder Still

You live by it
Actions speak louder
But nothing you do now
Will speak louder than those

Tears you shed in place of a goodbye

Going Pains

I know this
Is the last time I will
Ever get to hold you in this way
And the weight of that thought

Is crushing my arm beneath you

Background Noise

These words always
Escaped you
Said more correctly, you
Let them pass you by without

A care or wonder

Rights Reserved

You belong
To the past
As do I
No matter how much

We enjoy misplacing one another

After the storm

That was it
That was all
I wrote it away
I hope you see now

It was harmless, I am harmless

Pungent

There's a stench
You can't quite name
But you're convinced
It's on me, and you're certain

It stands between us

Vicious Cycle

It was never me
And you knew this
So you pounded my chest
Screaming it was never you

And I knew this

Confinement

I've been in solitary
Just screaming at our past
Knowing you hear me through the vents
Knowing you will never be decent enough

To even slide a key under the door

Neglect

You made a promise
That when I was hurting
I wouldn't have to ask
So when I beg you to stop

It hurts twice as bad

I Can't Reach

I used to dream of you
To escape nightmares
I have demons I took
Too long to face

Now they're on that spot on my back

Still Seducing

Fly away
Only to return
Gone when I was here
Here after I've left

Chasing my back to avoid my gaze

Making Change

I patched together
Enough of your half truths
To make it seem like
You had a few whole truths to offer

But promises trade on paper not coins

Slow Leak

I'm used to
Crying all at once
Not one extra tear each day
I cry to die and move on

Not to cope with living

Tossing

My bed linen
Stinks of your absence
This blanket provides
None of your warmth

I lay awake by obvious choice

Thunderous

You don't know
Love until you've
Deafened with passion
And held captive a heart

Only to hear it whimper for release

Optimal Optical

A lot of how
We see the world
Has to do with the lens
Through which we see it

I saw only darkness through your eyes

New Subject

I've never seen
A cloud leave so quickly
There must be someone else
East of here whose night

Has suddenly become worse than mine

Hard Look

Who am I
This man sitting here
At this hour unable to sleep
So awake with himself yet

Asleep to the trials of happiness

Humidity

Rain births poems
I am simply a deliverer
My words are crop and livestock
What would I have fed you

Were it not for the rainfall from your eyes

Steeplechase

No matter how hard you try
You won't escape my eyes
You'll never make it to more perfect
Than you already are now

This now, and every now, from now on

Animal Attraction

I hear a lion in your lungs
A bear in your belly
A gorilla in your gullet
But the mouth of a mamba

Quiet, until my flesh within range

Not A Care

When the sky falls
And beats against the
Empty city streets at night
I hear your laughter in each drop

Wishing you were splashing in my puddle

Foundation

This vanity
Is a sickness
You volunteer yourself to
More often than you volunteer

Yourself to your health

Give and Take

If you know
You mistreated me but
Won't fight to give me peace
As much as you fought to give me hell

Then who will ever fight for you

Aftermath

After he ripped my heart
In two from then on I could
Only ever love two men at once
Or one with half my heart

While the other half withered in politeness

Optical Illusion

She isn't the girl for you
She's not going to find you
If she can't even find herself
Staring in that mirror all day long

Unless you stand in her shadow you're not in view

Utilized

You were always
Going to betray my heart
Once you betrayed your own
You made me meet you in your thunderstorm

Only to dry off by his fireplace

Passing You By

You don't want me
To want is an active verb
If you mistake it as passive
It will leave you behind

As will I

Cover girl

Please, I beg you
Stop painting your face
You think I like it on you but
With if you put on another coat

I fear I might lose you forever under there

Brute fact

I want you in the sun
Every inch of your flesh
Glistens in my desire
Your entire body is mine already

Except the lips, which I prefer in the night

Restless

I think you're in love
With your wild heart
You think it sets you free
But you've become a slave

To the wilderness

The Reason Why

This heart was torn
Now it beats in
Two places at once
Wanting to be mended

By either of you

Smoke, Mirrors

You love yourself
Enough to destroy me
You don't love me
Enough to destroy yourself

Let everyone know what you did to me

Interrupt

Don't do that
Silence me tonight
You will regret hushing me
Furthermore you'll not enjoy

The storm after the quiet

Star Lust

No, not here
Ask me again tomorrow
In the sun of the morning
Not under the cloak of night

So there's no doubt it's me you desire

Full Bloom

The smell of
Late summer
Is all over you
Too late will I treat

Our days as they were numbered

Moon Mist

This is the night
Where I would
Never again forget
The fragrance of your hair

In the summer breeze

Vacant

With each passing day
It seems as though you're here
Less often so naturally I
Assume you're somewhere else

Because you don't look lost, just misplaced

Flash The Message

I beat my drum for
Anti white-supremacy
Not anti-white supremacy
Now that I have made the distinction

It's on you to ensure that there is one

All Lives

There's nothing wrong
With your grammar
You and I both know
That I can only matter

So long as you matter first

Bygones

I haven't been her
Since we broke up
Don't you understand yet
You killed her when you left

You wouldn't want me any more than you did her

Withdrawn

Where are your profile pics
Where is your hashtag prayer
All that spirited apathy
I haven't heard you since Paris

And your silence is deafening

Dulce

There isn't enough water
Hot or cold
To wash away
All the sweetness

You've left on my tongue

Balconies

It's easy, and that's why
It's seen as being romantic
Because we're born into this
Very lazy concept of what love is

Where everything is fulfilled by our lover

My job

I don't know when
I forgot who I wanted to be
All I remember is wanting so bad
For you to remind me

How silly is that

Samaritan

I am going to put
My lips onto yours
Because I am full of life
And you have lost yours

Once you have breath I will be gone

Palms

Has anyone asked you
For your hand lately
Can I share in your energy
And delight in how differently

Our blood flows

Summer Dresses

Every summer
You pretty flowers bloom
With magisterial radiance
Until I pick one of you

Causing her too soon to wilt

Coats

How come so few of you
Have the skin you want
Before you beautify
And then less of you

Have it after

Tangentially Yours

I don't turn to my phone
Anymore there's nobody
There for me now, in fact
I have nowhere really to go

Since searching within led me here 

Air Signs

Don't you feel that
Warm breeze on your skin
Carrying you away from yourself
Into that eternal wind, where

There is no self between us

Green

Green is a desperate colour
Bursting from blue with an
Undying urge to be seen
Envy, money, foliage

Green precedes its object

Burst

I just want to hold you
Fully clothed with no makeup
So it can pour out of you
Until we're both drenched

In sweat and tears

For or Against

Why do we
Keep fighting
Are we fighting for
Something that we can have

Or something that we've lost

Pack

They are
Wolves in the night
All they know is each other
And where they are headed

Never how, why or when

Cautious

We've got
Lots of time ahead
If you close your eyes
You'll see that I'm right

We don't have to rush this first step

Forage

In the reeds
Is where they'll find their love
Where they stowed it away
For safekeeping they each thought

But I meant for them to find it together

The Routine

He has some nerve
This act of his is
Very predictable, but
Still kind of sweet the way

He makes it seem like it's his first time

Sky High

With you I
Become legendary
As the air becomes wind
Not knowing how or why

Nonetheless removing clouds

Screw Face

That mask
Must be painful
With your smile
Pounding from behind

Begging for daylight

If I May

I want to hold you
Until it's gone
Until the black sky
Has revealed at least

A glimmer of light for you

Levels

Dominate flesh
Allow yourself more
All the wonders that lie beyond
The sensation of touching a body

Are trapped in the words she yearns to share

Crowd

I could tell, the moment
I opened that door I knew
You were not alone in that apartment
And maybe there weren't any girls, but

You certainly filled the room with doubts

Bonfire

Balance, symmetry, no
The flame follows only the wind
And the wind follows only her heart
So I will follow you until you die down

Warming the places you left cold

Frequency

Every day
Produces a song
If you listen closely enough
And if you sing along

Then you will come to know me

Abduction

Love is so selfish

Or maybe I am

Regardless I'm in love

I want this feeling forever

I don't want you to change, ever

Fester

Holding you
Is the only thing missing
You probably want to be held
By someone else

My only question, do you already know who

Published

I think the longest road
Is the one you take
To the other side of yourself
The good thing is you don't need

To save anything for a return trip

Two Rivers

He resents my success
Almost as much as
I resent his failures
We were destined to be apart

Yet our gaze draws closer to one another

Still See You

It's probably no easier
For you than for me
To get over this
Which is why I know we were

Both swallowed up into the pit of love

The Marketplace

I don't want your flaws
I have my own burden
Love is not your free ride
At my expense

I am by no means indebted to you

Crocodile

Do you weep because
Your heart is now open
Or because his
Will be broken when you tell him

He has not stolen you from me

Insourcing

I have to work on me
You have to work on you
We've tried trading responsibilities
For too long, and really neither of us

Share the same vision of success

Look Different

Even though
You wouldn't let me
I said goodbye to you
I accepted a life had ended

I was born in the night after our day

Keep In Mind

There are far
More noble sacrifices
To be made
For love

Than your integrity

Dad

When I grew up
I finally saw
The child in you
The one you hid

Behind the cookie jar

Dark Eye

Your eyes only
Allow you to see
The worst in me
I can't bother to look

At them anymore

Precipitate

You've brought
A cloud to this beach
And given enough idle visitors
A brief taste of your cold gloom

Why won't you take your misery into the sea

Regularly Programmed

They know our
Favourite soother
And they know better
Than us when we want it

They have mastered closing our eyes

Demise

What disappoints me
Most is that this generation
Is just like every other generation
But with no reason to be

They've just chosen to repeat mistakes

Gloom

We have been overcast
For far too many weeks
Nothing grows anymore
Except the distance between us

Let the worms have it, we summoned them

Other Cheek

Behind that gorgeous
Smile are the most
Ugly intentions but I
Refuse to repay your

Ill will with my own

Be Alright

Why don't
We just admit
We're two people
Who want to be one people

And leave it at that

Terra Cotta

You alone shaped yourself

Through the water of your own tears 

My touch was never soft enough for your bisque

I could only ever be a kiln for you not anticipating

Keeping you warm has hardened you from me forever

Embrace

I just can't
Hold this pillow
Any longer in my arms

No matter how tight my grip

It doesn't compare to yours on me

Don't Tend, Attend

The iron knows no race
No gender, age, nation nor creed
It admits desire and denies excuse
Rewards failure and torments success

Here or not, the iron takes attendance every day

Grasping

You'll never see
How much I loved you
Until you yearn for yourself
Then you will see what I stayed for and

What I had to leave behind before it all vanished

To Think Of It

That's how it is
I find strength in
Building you up, You
Through tearing me down

How it's always been

Lend

If I had your voice
I would sing all day
For strangers or anybody
In need of your song

I need your song

Requite

You look at me
with so much love
I can't look at you
the same, I don't

Want to

Power and Might

You are fire
I'm not looking
For a new flame
A glass of water

Will quench my thirst

La Habana

It can't be denied
Havana is ripe to break free
Will Washington again bring his guillotine
Dropping his cold blade with an invisible hand

Or are you convinced this time it's about democracy

Comes Down To

Just want you
To dig me
With enough intensity
To start this fire

Before nightfall

Mankind

I wish I could
Search the future
As much as I have
Searched the past

For hope

Separate Ways

You've made it easy
For me to understand
That I am alone in this misery
I just wish you were as good

At explaining anything else

Debt

I know better
Than to tell the old man
I'm done with this world
I remember the promise I made

I know what I owe him for this

Showers

This time of year
My eyes water but
My only allergy is isolation
From you

Always from you

Hunt

Through the cold
I will move the feet
That won't move on their own
And summon the lost fire

Until your heart thaws

Des jardins

Somewhere between
a hug and a kiss is
where my heart plays today
and yours is invited

to join him on either side

Pink Rubber

I've so feverishly
Tried to erase you
Now you're smeared
All over my page and I'm left

Without a clean slate from which to love 

6ix

When I was little this one time
Somehow, a street hydrant burst open
Without word we all ran to it shirtless
Bathing in want to be those poor Bronx babies

Knowing they were rich with the identity we lacked

Out Of Joy

What would you say
Is the last thing you
Were so dedicated to that
You'd stay up until morning on it

When last have you done that thing

Script

Every poem I feel
Has been made of two parts
The part where we are still together
And the part that was written

Before we ever put pen to paper

Praise The Land

Just outside my window
I smell new life, brand new
It's time to plunge from this tower
I'd rather be down there with my head high

Than here sorrowing over things beneath me

Time and Space

No matter
Where you go
Always remember
You're still there

And so am I

Chasm

I don't want
To yearn for your tears
Show me your insides
Consist of more than salt and water

Show me I have made it in you

Fast Lane

My mind quiets
For about five minutes each day
Which I use to think of you
And with those thoughts I go

Off again to the races

Ethereal

I just recently found out
That desire was my art's
Most staunch enemy
Writing about your unknowns was

Like painting a rose in a lightless closet

Cape Bianchi

White stone and sand
Under this cloudless sky
Was the final resting place
For my desire, and

The birthplace of my appreciation

At What Cost

Our first kiss
Was forbidden I think
It simply must have been
I have only known such joy

To accompany grave expense

Bound

You want me
To give you
Every freedom from
Yet you take from me

Every freedom to

Grandiose

What place is there
For me at this table
You've made a spectacle feast
Of everyone's favourite dishes

And my most deadly allergies

After Dark

I have left
Our night behind us
I don't need your quiet
Or your calm to move on

What you make of the day is your affair

History

I want to lick
The words that pour out
From beneath your skin
And have them on my tongue

To henceforth speak only of your taste 

Cisco Heat

I remember hot nights
Feeling guilty as the passionate heat
Poured from your flesh and lit the room
And always I would wait 'til things cooled down

To admit to you that this wasn't love

Unclench

Praises be
To all the girls
Who chose some else over me
Or chose themselves before me

So she could choose me

Grand Scheme

One day you wake up
To find that you are
Adorned in suffering
A willing contributor to the pyramid

Asking the bottom labourers for yet more foundation

They Only Elect

I live in
A generation of children
Who grew only to want unlimited playtime
Complaining that our elders won't bandage our boo boos

Because there is something very wrong with our hands

Crowded Out

This bed is overfull
With your dreams and desires
There's barely enough room for me
As for my few fantasies

I may have to find them another room

Stifling

Your mouth is so big
Yet your voice is too small
To be heard in this forum
Nobody cares what you think

Until the message is loud enough

Unrest

She doesn't love me
She loves herself with me
Loves the two of us on stage
But here in this audience

She can't sit still with me for even an act

Adverse Adventure

From port to port
You've convinced yourself
That you're some grand ship
And you can only dock for the night

But your great destination is just another dock

Undertow

Suddenly your giant current
Swallowed me whole
Dragging me from the shoreline
I was so afraid to venture from on my own

Now I can hardly remember life on his lonely island

Crashing

When I asked you I knew
I was going to make your world
But I never thought
I would make it a living hell

I built those sandcastles too close to your shore

Unsure

I don't know for sure
If this is what forever feels like
Is it supposed to feel like
Looking forward to tomorrow or

Does it feel like forgetting yesterday

Offerings

When you're gone
I don't sleep on your side
I can't, it was never mine
Every home needs an alter

And I already worship your return

Reckoning

When I see you again
You will be much older
Wiser, I would hope
I will not recognize you but

I will recall how you impacted me most

Not Fabricated

The way you
Address strangers by name
Offer every conversation your eyes
While still managing to keep me center stage, oh!

To be draped in the cloth from which you were cut

Journeyman

All that is good
Has fallen from my grasp
All at once I'm yet again forced
To decide if I should pick up the pieces

Or make it across by foot before sundown

No Risk

This safe prison
Is so comfortable
Which is what I fear most
How in such embracing arms

Can I enjoy the thrill of falling

Mere Inches Away

Alone
With a lover
Just on the other side
Of that wall

That terribly tall wall

Romantique

You keep thinking with him
You'll find that je ne sais quoi
One day he too will leave and
All you'll have left

Is a je ne sais pas

Nature Clears

The storm in you
Knows no quiet, not a single stillness
Until our most firmly planted oak
Has been vehemently uprooted

You will rest when all of us is destroyed

Trepid Fool

In most pairings
I would wait for her to unfold
Revealing the true self she hid
Knowing I would not be fond

But you made haste to reveal my delight

In All Honesty

A lot of guys
Are only in relationships
For the promise of persistent female attention
When they become the man who can have any woman

A relationship becomes a less valuable commodity

Road Ahead

With him
The thought of forever
Felt like it might be too much
With you it feels like not enough

That's how I know

Tension

We're the same
There is no way to relieve
The pain between her ears
She bears her burden upon her shoulders

My job is only to kneed until she is soft in my hands

An Instant

I was plagued each day
By a hundred tomorrows
Never having time for a single now
Until you came into my life and at once

Made all of my tomorrows come true

Another Realm

When forever finds you
And rescues you
From the grips of never
Unite the hands of tomorrow and yesterday

Saying to both, it was nice knowing you 

Wonder Wander

I saw a bird soaring
Wondering where to
You wondered where from
We stretched our eyes across time

Until we couldn't resist the space between us

Off Key

We sang our songs
From different rooms
Never did we serenade
Ourselves or each other

And never did we even attempt a duet

When Disaster

On most days
He is the gentle silence
I yearn for in my thunderstorms
Today I struck him and I fear

His silence has become a deafening siren

Hazy Days

I used to see you
Under the sun
Every speck of you was vivid
I can't remember now seeing

Your face without a cloud overhead

Penury

Writing you was a mistake
It has given me such heavy emptiness
I have never been bothered more
By such persistent vacancy

With your wealth of words you set aside none for me

Tune In

This is all new to me
The others didn't listen
Didn't care to know me like you
To know all of me in and out

Just one day you could only hear the worst of me

Dreamweaver

After each booming cry
You sat down spool in hand
Weaved together a new blanket
To warm me through cold nights

But by day I shed her for my lost nakedness

Obsessed

My favourite song was your laugh
Favourite movie was the day we met
Book was your autobiography
Poem was our first time

Colour was your eyes

Broken Records

I don't want
To deny you pleasure
But I'm more concerned
With providing you happiness

So let's not dance to the old tune again

White

You don't owe me
An apology
You owe me sympathy
As I would owe an invalid

While I carefully avoid his wheels of progress

The Choice

I'm not lonely
Not anymore
Not because you've
Chosen to be with me, rather

Because I've finally chosen to be chosen

Our Body

I smell you
As I have smelt
Past lovers in my own flesh
Difference being, this time

I like the new scent I've taken on

High Dive

It's a scary plunge
Into that deep sea
Allowing myself to be
Submerged in you but

Drowning in you is better than air

Dope Boy

Regulated substance
Naked, useless and on the ground
Perpetually poor with dwindling offspring
Yes, its side effects are well within regulation

Only you won't stand up and play against the rules

On My Back

I want to remain
Sturdy and sterile for you
A working space for the
Delicate and meticulous surgery

Of the heart I know you've been meaning to perform

Toss Around

We wrestle into every position
All the ones we always dreamed
We'd finally share with that someone
And all the ones we always knew

Never felt right with anyone before

Happened So Fast

Maybe your fears
Are not a big deal for me
And my fears
Are not a big deal for you

And that's all it took

A Part, Apart

Black for you
Is a genre, a category
For me, and well
Most of human history black is

Mother, father, marriage to the sun

The Verse

How many times
Have you found
Your old self and
Your new self

Between two pages

By Numbers

You have no art
You say you like to draw
But all you ever do is colour
In the lines given to stifle childish hearts

I know why you don't know how to love

Symbiosis

Lately I've noticed
These thoughts keep coming back
In the dead of night I can remember
Memories I only before had access to

Through a shared consciousness I thought was lost

Closure

I've moved on she said
I didn't believe her
Until she showed me
He'll give her what I never could

It finally made sense what she was asking for

Community

I hear crickets
It's January in my condo
I know the noise is in my head
And I shouldn't listen to them chatter

But they're the only ones reaching out

Of Grey

You only try
To talk to me
Through suffering
Anymore

We haven't shared a smile in months

Permission

You can do it
I believe in you
That never stops
Just because we're apart

Allow yourself to be happy again

Intangible

I placed a lot of things
From my heart on these pages
And I did not smear blood or flesh
But rather that thing in the heart that

Was never mine, was never ours, to begin with

Oh, Oscar

I was never invited to your party
Except those times I dressed up
As the help, the clown, the villain, the fool
I get it, exclusivity requires exclusion

Why else would anyone confuse you for important

The Miserables

All this petty acting out
Teaming up with your single friends
Trying to decide if I really cheated
Or if those voices need to be silenced

They working hard to drown in the shallow end

Low Endurance

To be honest
I've spent the last while
Hoping harder to see you happy
Than to see me happy, and frankly

I can't outlast either of our miseries

You're Soaked

You may feel on grey days
That your great love passed you by
Know then, finally, that you are wrong
It was my great love that came and went

Come on in from the rain babe

And Thus

I didn't love her
Or any of them
As much as I do you
Fair question though

How many times have I answered so

No Question

If I could have you
I would search no further
I would yearn no longer
All the quest in me would perish

As I would have for the first time arrived

Wholesome

Romance and passion
Those are the spices of life
You want to base your whole diet
On spice, I'll tell you what's in store

Heartburn

Recognition

So loudly he says that his
Giving is for giving's sake
For me that never jived
For me the only altruist is the man

Who's realized he gives out of guilt

Daily Couture

I'm not fooled
You know precisely
How enraptured I must be
Every inch of you is on purpose

Every inch a victory over me

Basking

Is this truly an
Invasion of privacy
Anymore than I invade the sun
When she enters my room with

If anything far less radiance

Shopping Malls

Walking on your own
I pray also alone
If I can set myself free
From these hundred fears

I might ask if you mind being alone together

Still Labours

That's how it happens
You find out at your desk one day
How easily now you lose focus
How easily you lost focus of it all

How hard it is now to sit, think, stretch or anything peaceful

Foghorn

I can't see where
You're trying to take us
Yet still all I have
Is your voice and my trust

To see me through these days

High Moon

If this mighty river
Surrounded by such beauty
Can find calmness
Surely in your presence

I can find low tide within myself

Wheels Fall Off

Don't do this
Please don't do this
If you keep up this display
I won't be able to forget it

Which for me is true forgiveness

Over The Head

I've buried you with the others
But their hearts never
Beat for mine quite like yours
I suspected you would resurface

Which is why I kept the spade

Sustenance

I don't hunger
For your flesh
This isn't appetite
What I have is thirst

I need you for my survival

Without Hitting Back

Africa, mama
Keep us safe and warm
From his cold unfeeling whip
I know he's wrestling with his own guilt

But I can't protect my brothers much longer

Two Can Die

Young black man
They want you to cheat
So they get the real two for one
The queen is dethroned and the king

Forfeits his holdings to their judiciary

See It Through

Who's counting tears
What use is there in ending this early
To spare more tears in the future
And after all if we end this now

I'll lose way more tears between now and then 

At Contact

Each kiss was
Passionately wet and yet
Each kiss was
Dry flintstone colliding

Sparking our everlasting flame

Water Torture

Now I have a narrative
A reason outside me
For these words inside me
And it was only ever to be found

At the bottom of my sea of tears

Taken

Took a thousand words
To make us picture perfect
Took a thousand poems
To put our picture away

Put it away and it took my poems hostage

Prometheus

Every night I am reborn
With memories of you and I
And each morning again
Sentenced to death as I wake

Without you here to join me as I climb

Last Night

You've cursed me
With a night I'll never relive
I still remember how it tastes
I remember dying in you knowing

I would regret not bringing us to life

Familiar Whimper

Last night I dreamed
Of what I must sound like
Booming into your fragile ears
And it shattered me to hear

Your voice asking only for approval under mine

In Your Court

Let me tell you son
In life a lot of people
Will ask you to care more about
The things that don't need your attention

Than the things that are begging you for it

Enough Talk

I want our lips together
Not because I crave your flesh
When we speak to one another
Our words are like lonely blades of grass

Trying to tell us how rich the soil is beneath them

Or Low Tide

We are all water
So we were both waters
I shouldn't demise
That yours have mixed

With mine forever

Induce Me

Bring my heart to sleep
Let it dream away past troubles
Let it wake up to a new day
Fresh as it once was before

It beat for you

Penning Us Apart

We're both storytellers
You're telling a story
That hasn't happened
I'm telling a story

That hasn't happened yet

Habits, Habitat

Boatman doesn't live
Working closed waters
The shores are not his home
Just a place for his slumber

The waves are what rouse him from it

Slope

This is how I
Slipped into lunacy
It happened the night I realized
All of their voices were

Less convincing than all of mine

Breakout

Now I want out
From under this safety blanket
I'm still very afraid of the outside
All I know for sure though is I'm

More afraid of dying in here

Only Renovate

You want to tear down any walls
That stand between me and you
That's fine, but when you attack my
Foundation it just means you don't want

This house I've built, so build your own

Vibes

Everything trembles
For something
Someone
On this grand fabric

Somebody already feels your pulse

Heavy Gaze

Your ducts are filled
With tears held back
Saved for me to see
If that's what you want

I will bring you the jar half filled with mine

That Princess There

Spoiled by hyperbole and
Ruined by childhood promises
Of luxuries beyond contribution
Of title without deeds, she's yet to learn

The tiara weighs less than the crown

Chain Gang Redo

Each one brought his own hammer
Gripping me tight as his pin
Together we chiseled away
Hoping to set free a hidden soul

Not knowing exactly whose would spring forth

Are You Free

Blessed with more time
On God's green earth
Than any humans before us
Yet we wonder how we could ever

Do more than the ancient heroes we worship

For Orientation

There's no helping her
She wants to be lost
Least of all found by you
When she calls to you from a distance

She only needs your voice not your words