Why The World Turns

An earthquake dancer

Bounding fissures trying to shake off her faults

A beautiful girl

Breaking hearts in a chaotic off beat waltz

A backlit diva

Sounding measures trying to sing the blues

A beautiful girl

Losing life’s rhythm from stolen kisses is old news

A molder of minds

A shaper of worlds

A teaser of men

A beautiful girl

An avid minor

Pounding pitchers trying to drink away the shame

A beautiful girl

Fighting the ebbing tide forgetting her name

A hitchhiked damsel

Founding allures trying, new peaks, to climb

A beautiful girl

Scaling mountain after man, wasting time

A daughter; a lover

A perfect pearl

A reason to get up

A beautiful girl

An integral girl

Astounding contours trying to calculate life

A beautiful girl

Crunching numbers while causing them strife

A messed up lass

Confounding pleasures trying to escape pain

A beautiful girl

Losing dignity, as this world turns insane

An abducted freelancer

Abounding, demure, trying to run and hide

A beautiful girl

Fearing what she has to offer inside

A real-world dreamer

Compounding leisure with thoughts so free

A beautiful girl

Of dreams, the kind you rarely see

A stunning attraction

That shakes and swirls

A peace, an anxiety

A beautiful girl

I Can't

I can’t quite forget

Nor can I remember

Was I infatuated

Or did I really love her?

I cannot be still

Nor can I be active

A crush that was truly

Aggressively passive

I can’t quite hear

Nor can I listen

Empty are the words

Of all other women

I cannot be lost

Nor can I be found

Deaf are my ears

Muted is your sound

I can’t quite stand up

Nor can I lie

A world apart

Gone is that college try

I cannot be warring

Nor can I find peace

Reluctantly beating

This heart will not cease

I can’t quite encrypt

Nor can I decipher

Acknowledged, overlooked

And never together

I cannot be close

Nor can I be far

A break in the link

Wondering where you are

I can’t quite be happy

Nor can I dismay

As day runs from night

And night clings to day

I cannot keep secret

Nor can I expose

That I just don’t get it

And I don’t care who knows

I can’t quite find love

Nor can I find hate

Life just goes on

In a lackluster stalemate

I cannot be dreaming

Nor can I be awake

How long before I

Realize my mistake?

I can’t quite be here

Nor can I be there

If her heart isn’t in it

Am I wrong to care?

I cannot remember

Nor can I forget

Did I really love her?

I just don’t know yet…

Say Goodbye, If You Like

Say goodbye
If you like
Run away
And just hide
And some day
You will find
That it's just
Peace of mind
Find the peaks
Make them yours
Make them what
You adore
If you're lost
Then I'm found
I don't need
You around

Say goodbye
If you like
Play that song
One more time
Dig a hole
To nowhere
Then ask me
If I care
Gone away
Are your dreams
Nothing is
As it seems
I am lost
You're not found
I still want
You around

Say goodbye
If you like
Stay alive
Try to fight
Keep me up
Up all night
Longing for
Just your sight
Think about
Our mistake
It's icing
On the cake
When I'm lost
You are found
I don't want
You around

Say goodbye
If you like
I'll stay here
I won't write
Don't call me
And you'll see
I'm all right
I will be
You don't care
Nothing new
I will not
Forget you
When you're lost
I'm not found
I don't want
You around

Say goodbye
If you like
I will say
Say goodbye

Remembering To Forget

How did you know what I was going to say?

They were just my thoughts from years ago

I had yet to put them on any page

But somehow you knew them, you always know…

Do I know you? I swear we’ve met before

You say you don’t remember but I swear it’s true

I looked left, then right, then left again

I grew tired of looking and then I saw you…

One by one they’re said and done

Thrown away without a word to say

Two by two they pass by you

Blown away by what you think they say

Use a line and try to lure them in

Lie about secrets you keep within

“I swear I’ll do anything to make this work.”

They lie through their teeth those f—— jerks

You can pick me up at a half past seven

They’ll give you hell, but you’ll think it’s heaven

Used and abused thrown off to the side

You’re just happy to be along for the ride

Does anyone know what the hell I should write here?!

Caught up in the then, they’re no longer right there

Good things happen to those who take them

So get off your ass, this isn’t an ultimatum!

I see you fix your hair and wonder:

Are you vain or insecure?

I see you feign interest and wonder:

Are you here and is you heart pure?

And you can laugh like he said something humorous

But you know damn well you think he’s stale and useless

And you can sit right there and nod politely

But you know damn well you think his crush is unsightly

When you close your eyes and it all comes flooding back

And you cling to nothing trying to brace for attack

When it’s all the same, the same, the same

And you pray to God that she just remembers your name…

Too depressing to be depressed

Too alone to be lonely

Too filled with hate to commiserate

So sit back, complain, and then berate

Too ignorant to ignore

To adoring to abhor

Take it all, then take some more

Sit back, complain, continue keeping score

Red flashing lights mean they don’t know what they’re doing

A yellow arrow to the left will turn out to be my undoing

Driving behind a bumper that claims: “A love ends suicide”

And you wish you could be happy to be along for the ride

I’m clinging to straws counting days in a haze

I’m drowning in waves hoping it’s just a phase

You’re running for your life and getting nowhere

You’re jumping through hoops trying to find someone who cares

“Don’t you remember? I’m the love of your dreams…”

As your life gets tied up at the seams

“Can’t you forget? Am I out of tries?”

As you suddenly see through all their lies

“Can I be done now? I’ve eaten all my undesirable words…”

Sit at the table and listen until you’ve heard

Falling asleep you just wish they were there

Falling asleep you just wish you didn’t care

Emotion is an ocean where the biggest waves aim to sink

Devotion is a potion that doesn’t require you to think

Revelation is an explanation for what you aim to be

Delirium is a conundrum that calls itself me…

Where was this all going? You ask as it concludes

Well it definitely didn’t bring me any closer to you

And now you wish that you could run and hide

When you’re longing again for that beautiful ride…

Linger

It’s apparent from your shadow growing longer

That those things that haven’t killed you aren’t making you any stronger

The fatigues of your mind affect your body and soul

And the unnerving desires you have are taking their toll

Can’t remember your dreams after you wake up

‘Cuz if you could reality would probably stop

Can’t open your eyes enough to see them clearly

They linger, like you, on and on wearily

It’s funny how someone’s eyes can make or break them

No disguise will work, because they all condemn

They never say what they really meant to say

And we all know this because we are they

Imagine, if you will, that you’re on a desert island

Not enjoying yourself on the beach, but buried under the sand

Can’t open your eyes enough to see clearly

You linger on, forever, discretely

Bought a ticket to ride but then went nowhere

Funny how if it doesn’t affect them they don’t really care

Standing in line and waiting for my turn

The blond only catches your eye, that’s what I’ve learned

Wake up, wake up you sleepy head

And convince the world that you’re not dead

Can’t open your eyes, too much sand to see clearly

Just know there’s one in this world who loves you dearly

Saw you last night and again this morning

The second was by chance; the first was a warning

In short, good things happen to those who lie

But in the long run they’ll be afraid to close their eyes

It haunts you like a lengthening shadow

Conveniently gone today, but lingering tomorrow

Can’t open your eyes, to much guilt to see straight

Panicked, frantically trying to escape your fate