Let me in. Let me in!
I stand outside myself and cry.

Let me out! Let me out!
Inside the tedium of mind mind, I shout.

Whether I am here or there, nowhere or somewhere
I keen, I wobble and drag on.

The Here and There

Late at night I hear music
drifting into my ears, from where
I do not know

It sounds like a door to a church, that has been left gently ajar
and from far within it's halls comes the strong but distant strain of a song

It's like that sound inside your head when you hold your breath too long
but I know I'm still breathing

It feels like the world is spinning, turning slowly and it's weight is dragging
against the moving wind, against the drifting life

It sounds like something that is scraping against something else

It's like a heave and a sigh and a "don't ask me now"
It's fingertips dragging across still waters

(The trains shift and settle, re-assure me that it's not them making that noise and that they hear it too, and yes we're all still here)

"Give me a beautiful thought." he said.

She said, "I've got to go."

water snakes and other reptiles

I was pride

and something was worrying me 

you would be the fall

I didn't know how to tell you 

anything at all

If the only way I could inspire you was from a distance
would you still want me near?

"If you're a bird, I'm a bird"

What if I'm not a bird?

"I can hear you sing."

Sweet and Salty

If you are the sea
I shall be a boat
that rides the waves
and braves the storm

If you are the sea
I shall be the sky
that always touches you
always covering you

If you are the sea
I shall be an octopus
that settles in the deep
keenly watching the life within

If you are the sea
I shall be toes
that dance and leap
and test the waters