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