Voices

Just give one more explanation

Until they understand 

Still trying to survive

Taking yet another final stand 

Take a few more for good measure 

Heat them up until you burn

Eat their words so they feel better

Vomit them out and never learn

Out in the real world for a change

If only you could find

Clues to where reality begins

Ending what’s only in your mind

Still searching for the seam 

Intent to tear it apart 

Never could grasp the edges 

Made up of mind and heart

Yank it all down around you

Hitting at the voices in your head

Echoes lashing out 

Aching to be said

Darling, it's time to drown them out, or watch as they spread 

Forevermore

Today you'll be my inspiration 

Offering myself in return 

How strange a transaction 

Accepting all the highs with every burn

Vast swaths of things we have yet to learn 

Each moment could be a treasure

All lost in time's sea

No ways left to measure

Days piling to eternity 

Take one more for you and me

Once more, forevermore

Hold tight and learn anew -

Of all the things that I adore

Love, they mean naught compared to

Days piling high with me and you

Embedded

Didn't I used to fit here -

In between the hard and soft

Dragging us down all while they

Tried to hold us aloft 

Hidden amongst the faces

Endless variations of the same

Bound together and beholden 

Embedding deeper all the blame

Didn't it used to make sense

Getting caught up in all of it

Echoing back the phrases 

Take a seat and don't forget 

Strive until you break out

Make mistakes but never say

Attach your meaning to it

Lose yourself amidst the fray

Lie down just for awhile

Empty beds grow so small

Reach back through time, and let go of it all 

Air

To all my convictions swaying in the breeze 

I ask, "Will you not just let me go?"

But they were never ones to please -

They'd rather refuse to let me know

Anything for certain

Attempting to peek behind the curtain 

Has left me further in the dark

With endless shades of gray

On this twisting, winding way

Searching for a single candid spark

One small light to hold onto

That won't smother in my grasp

One thing that will remain true

That won't turn to dust in my clasp

As I wonder sporadically -

Do you actually love me

Or did you fall in love with me years ago

And just assume it's still true out of habit?

All these endless hairs I split

Trying simply to know

To all the knowledge I can't find

I ask, "Won't you let me be?"

But they'd rather let me lose my mind

Than give up anything for free

So I'll keep making rotations 

Cut right down to the foundations 

But it was always just a castle in the air

With no supports at all

All of life was made to fall

And get caught in endless splitting hair

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