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