understudy

symbols stand in for meaning
actions stand in for love
thoughts stand in for reason
and my smile stands in for me

Farewell, Vanity Fair

Alas,

I am the bigger fool
through my own pride
and with fear
I bled myself
where it could not reach the ground

But, pray you, leave me not
for it is yet a tear

but, everything

I can't remove your
smell from underneath my skin

some thing in the way

I want to tell you things, I do
yet, right now
the only thing I know how to do
is point, this and this, here
these are what separate our atoms
this is what holds me together

words for god

Maybe there is something freeing in believing
nothing's there, nothing matters
Knowing this is truth

Still my heart twists and cries

and if we never looked each other in the eyes when we spoke, would we know the truth when we heard it

Let me ask you something.
If it's true, I once hurt your heart
and you went after revenge...

Am I dead yet? Has the carcass
satisfied you?
Most likely not; though
I'm afraid you've had your fill and I
am but one of a pack.

You Please

blow me apart
I come together
any which way

The Grey Areas

All I ever wanted was the chance to reach out, touch you,
feed the wild, roaring flames of your flesh,
soothe the places your imagination can't run from.

Chances are, it's what I need, too.

Tango

I retreat
as you advance the distance
between us is measured
precise

rhythm
oh my blood calls to you
grab me, pull me close
pushing
the limits of this nameless
tension

increasing the fury of
these tangled steps we take

simple words
is a play on words
as words are not simple
enough

Whale of Time

this one's for your dreams, one for mine
here is for what we want, and best wishes
for what we redefine

You may find it in the pauses, the search for the right word
the way a voice slows and catches when the brain connects the pain to the hollow phrase

Power Chord

Gently it spits it out, it is full
charged, it goes!
Only, now waiting
to be plugged in again;
after all it's only a machine

antagony

an·tag·o·niz·ing

slightest provocation
what words
hurling through
the air is still
heavy, heart

Shadow Play

Please don't make me tell
What the world already knows
So well
My heart belongs to you
My love, it grows

I cannot hold on to what is not there
I let go, but still your voice I hear
I back away, convinced I am wrong
Allowing this pretense to go on so long

No Comment

you will be safe, hidden among them
then one day, you look into
someone's eyes
see they do it too

Over the Edge

Which words does water use as it's falling?

the universal eye

I watch some time slowly dissolve my self
 find it does funny things to my brain, skin and

other things wash over me like sand and sea
my thoughts turn into sugar, pass through my body
like sweat, tears, and blood, love

there isn't bitterness, but like charcoal
 in your mouth, a darkness that cannot be described

memory negligently sheds its skin
 being present, I breathe slowly just going

arrive in this world, awaking every three seconds
always with that world in the blood of my veins
clinging, living, touching everything

Like A Deer In Headlights

but freedom of movement is no simple thing
there is no halfway

the distance between us is like a wrinkle in time