Options

And yet you can still say
I want it
Knowing it's yours
I still cannot take you for granted

So this is fine for you

Uncontested

Who else will hold you
Like this
Our give these laughs
Or that release from the tension

Matter fact, who else has

Frontiersman

Meditation is analog
Perhaps sublimely so
Nonetheless it seems sort of selfish
Indulging in my own understanding

Of mysteries long since solved

Album

She set her goals down
On the vanity
Closed that door behind her
Promising a quick return

Just a few more pictures

Ocean Eyes

Grampa told him boys don't cry
He had a daughter
She searched for him in every lover
All of whom left her weeping

Now one tear has become many

Pond

Now every notion has slipped through
I'm awe struck with freedom
Crying at the blissful understanding
That I caused my own waves, but

The pond is always still

Fade to Black

Oh you're tired
Of watching this
Well I'm tired of you
Just watching it

As I unfold into nothing 

Home

Home is here
And you know it
Now take off those
Running shoes

Help me clean up this mess

So

Then you appear​
As though you never left
My pride vanquished
Free at last to admit I need you

Hoping you need me back

Sheltered

Privilege requires ignorance
Some argue, passionately, progress creates callous
Yet they would remove callous for vanity
Never to feel anything than more of themselves

Sensation​ and sensitivity seldom arrive in pairs

Freedom

I either envy or resent
This freedom you flaunt
Back and forth between whims
Leaving me either with you in the dark

Or alone under the sun

Strip

There's no coat for every season
Some are meant to shield the rain
Others are even shorter lived
Getting you through those few coldest nights

Then there's summer, when you hope to never need me

Prey

Feelings were never shared
You took them all
Now I have none to give
So when you bully around for more

I know you won't stay long

Index

Happiness is a portfolio
Diversify
The are short and long gains
Invest in both

Each day, week, relationship

Wants and Needs

I've searched for diamonds
Found coal
I've searched your eyes
Found your heart and

Both times basked in the warmth I needed

Insensitive

Thick skin
Is a hard thing to lose
You may just always try to be tough
Knowing full well how hard I already have to press

For me to touch you

Embark

Yours is the way
The path and the destination
The journey and obstacles
The adventure of my life

Your heart is the why and the how

Dating

I wanna kiss
Wet and soft
These lips are parched from
Emptying myself into words

Never knowing who they will quench

Blip

Most of them are married women by now
I suppose I have my own prizes I just
Can't understand how easily I died
How lives shrink to anecdotes

I myself can hardly remember how I felt then