Radiate

The days are rushing, the nights are cold

Snow seeps into my skin

To freeze just one moment here 

Dwell on what could have been -

What could be, after this

After one more striven chance

How to reach a balanced bliss

How to pace this muddled dance

Can I stop tripping over my feet

Can you stop standing on my toes

If we could hear the same music

If we could collaborate and compose

A song that works for all of us

A symphony of life

That elevates the happy times

And holds us tight through strife

Because the strife freezes in the cold

To weigh heavily on our skin

While the happy times blaze and burn

Burning out into what has been

Let us find new ways to warm us

Let us dance until we radiate 

Then let us dance beyond this

Until the nights abate 

Rain

Tomorrow has escaped my grasp

Has once more eluded me

Each day it makes promises

Repeating, yet never coming to be

Entire lifetimes have been spent

In the vain attempt to hold them from -

Still trying to wrap their fingers around

All the tomorrows that'll never come

How indifferent they must be

Oaths given but never kept

Losing time and gaining it

Endless wavering we all accept

I will accept none of it -

None of the numbness they call sane

My head will open to the sky

Yearning, yet catching only rain

Here we will pause and reflect 

Each water drop lying in the grass

All the tomorrows held therein 

Drop away, yet never pass