Sunday, February 20, 2022

Eternity

Ask me questions I can't answer 
Little words that captivate
Light a spark behind my eyes 
Eternity isn't too long to wait
Letting all the old thoughts softly abate

Show me what could never have been
Twisted as it was before
Adrift in crushing upheaval
Yet stagnant at its core
Who knew it could be so much more?

Show me what is possible now
Everything as it should be
Show me all the silver linings 
Held within infinity 
All within a moment of you holding me

I'll answer questions you never asked 
Tangled webs to hide behind
Hidden meanings left undisturbed 
Mysteries you'll never find
Echoes of thoughts I revise and rewind

Light a spark and watch it blaze
Lingering unto the night
Moments stretching into days
Onward into the light
Void of all but warmth and rays
Eternity drifting out of sight

Sunday, February 6, 2022

Ramblings

I'll wander around idly
Tracing patterns in the air
Wondering forever
I'll shut my eyes and stare

Listing things off carefully
Leaping before I look
Taking each step boldly
Thinking of how my hands shook

Still searching for silver linings
In all there is to see
Still trying to find something -
Still searching for me

In all the endless words
That swarm about my head
In all this endless world
That'll plague me till I'm dead

And all the things I told me
All I maintained to be true
Are all the things that I forget
Sitting here with you

Maybe that's alright
Maybe it never mattered anyway
Sitting here quietly 
I'll watch the patterns fray

Sunday, January 23, 2022

Only Stay Forever

Only stay forever
Caressing my cold hands
Captured in the moment
All my breath expands

Still hanging in the air
In clouds about my head
Once more - fill and release
Nothing needing to be said

And we'll say it anyway
Like it's all of top most import
Like the future takes shape with our words
You'll always give your best retort

I'll soak it all in to warm me
Dreaming up arguments too
Occasionally, I don't like people all that much
No - but I always like you

Trekking through the snow
Lashes blinking flakes away
I'll hold what I can
Knowing it'll all be gone someday 

Experiencing each footfall
Perfect patterns in the snow
Expanding each moment
Only staying forever, you know -

Placing each foot carefully 
Like the pattern will always show
Echoes of when forever started to grow

Sunday, January 9, 2022

Sap

I'm tired of trying to sound clever
Of putting on a thoughtful face
And pondering this and that
I just feel out of place
I'm tired of people avoiding my gaze
And looking behind my back
I'm tired of explaining myself
And everything I lack

I'm tired of complaining
About things that don't truly matter
Covered in anxiety and lies
Take it all away, I'll shatter

I'll wallow in self-pity
And wish things would change
But stay within my comfort zone
Never finding my true rage
I'll write forever and say nothing at all
It's all nonsense and lies
I'll push your memory from my head
But dream of your eyes

I can't be happy, not today -
Everything is normal, see?
I can't be sad, not right now -
Numbness has ahold on me

Disjointed, disconnected
Stringed together verse
Daydreams filling my life
Watch them all disperse
Time goes so slowly
I feel so old, so young
Yet I feel younger than I once was
Falling back another wrung

I'm cold and overstimulated 
Birds chirping in one ear
While music blasts in the other
Trying to forget I'm here

I'm tired of thinking
But I doubt I'll ever quit
Ideas dying all around me
Just another thing to forget
I'll never be good enough for myself
I'll never find someone who disagrees 
Wholeheartedly enough to convince me otherwise
Everyone blows away in the breeze

I'm tired of trying to sound clever
So I didn't try this time
It's just a bundle of silly thoughts
Held together with a rhyme

Sunday, December 26, 2021

Starlight

Endeavor to paint a picture
Of all the changing skies
I'll do my best to draw in starlight 
So I can see it reflected in your eyes

As it all gets blinked away
I'll sigh and try again
Always trying to remember
What it was like back then

Absorbing all the ink
That leaks from my hand
It's all an endless cycle
Contracting just to expand

Each word is such a struggle
Slipping from my mind
The more I try to build them
The faster they unwind

There's a rhythm and rush now
Pulling at my skin
What am I doing here?
Wasting time again

How long can this go on?
Forever, and just today
It all fades in and out
Searching for something to say

Absorbing words to leak them
Living days to forget
Time marches on
And I haven't figured out the reason for it

Though I relearn it every day
It never sticks around
Though I find it often
There's nothing really to be found

Endeavoring to find a moment
Of surety beneath these skies
I'll breathe in starlight
And watch it reflect in your eyes