It screams,
yet silent.
No words,
yet violent.
It sits alone in the corner.
Fear creeps up and Hopelessness follows.
It screams for help,
but those screams are silent;
for no one listens
to the cries of Insanity.
No, Lust never forgets Love,
but looks like Cowardliness from a distance.
No, Lust never forgets Love,
for Heartache and Fear
constantly whisper her name.
No, Lust never forgets Love.
All in all, Love becomes Lust
and Lust becomes Love;
then Lust and Love become Fear
and Fear spends his time with Loneliness.
He cracks the door open and peers in.
Dear monster friend,
Why don't you just come out?
I'm lonely in the dark.
Dear monster friend,
Please come and play.
There's no reason to be scared.
Everyone is gone, its okay.
By the way,
Your face told me a story.
A story of brokenness;
A story of tears.
Between those wrinkle lines of worry,
Your trauma showed itself.
By the way,
You’re too young for wrinkles.
I can see the countless nights
You wished it all would go away.
By the way,
There will be a day
When you can stop
And laugh
And smile
And play.
By the way,
Your face told me a story,
With your smile molded from clay.
A story of want.
A story of need.
And yet I see,
Hope is underway.
Feet on backward,
Heads upside down.
Confused,
I look around.
Inside out
Turns right side in.
Equality has a grin
because of its new win.
The change is immense;
there's finally replies
to our broken cries;
too bad it's all just nonsense.
She said it,
but she didn't say it at all.
It was something she wouldn't admit,
but her face was her downfall.
Her face expressed
what her words did not suggest.
So he pried,
still she denied.
And now he's broken
from what's left unspoken.
I walked along the moonlit rooftop
Letting my heart choose my path
It took me there
It took the long way this time
The stairs more beautiful
Than standing in an empty elevator that night
The history of the steps indented to the shape of a decade of feet
Feet I hope didn’t walk to where I stood last
I opened the door at the top of the final floor
Less history there
Yet it contains more stories
And when the time had come to leave
Shivers set path along my spine
My heart raced
My mind fogged
And my feet took me closer to the edge
Closer than ever before
I placed my feet in the indentions of others
Feeling their presence
Even though I knew what had come after they stepped away from that spot
Wind crashed against my face
Unstyled my hair
Pressed my clothes against my skin
And thrust my body back
But the efforts were opposite in the end
Only my soul stepped away and out
But my body leaned forward in defiance and despair
For a second I watched from above
As it fell further away from me
While I stayed and enjoyed my last seconds
The lights of the buildings
The smiles on the faces of couples in love
The worries of the people who walk fast
The colors of the sky during a sun rise
The feeling of a walk at night
With the beauty
Of the moonlit tops on street lamps and cars
And the way the moon seemed to light up a stranger's face
And how much that face could tell me
I stayed to try and enjoy
Everything I’ve ever wanted to
But my body seemed to forget
Everything it was put here to see
And then the moment was over
I thought it would have set me free
We rule the land
The land of beautiful rivers and golden shiny sand
We play the music of the band
With the trained touch of a musician’s hand
Colors and smells are so grand
A million things, each with a different brand
Is the human habitat what mother nature planned?
For her trees and hills to be manned?
Are the hurricanes and tornadoes her patience on the last strand?
Does the end of days come as her reprimand?