Can I fall asleep beside you
Wrapped inside your arms?
Can I listen to your breathing
as it soothes me like a charm?
Can I sit facing you
With your blue eyes piercing mine?
Can I swim into that ocean
Where everything is fine?
Can I hear your voice whisper
Babe Go Back to Bed?
Can I feel your hand move mine
Where it desires me to tread?
Can I stop the world a moment
And suspend time with you here?
Can I love you for eternity
and see you without tears?

Hope has died
Buried alive
Under dirt
And rock
And debris
No turning back
No what may come
No future of possibility
Bared jagged soul
Laid opened wide
In pieces
On my floor
Bleeding
Writhing
Horrid pain
No knock upon my door
Left alone
Grief to bear
Reality to face
Bruised heart
Time can't heal
the memories I trace
Beauty marred
Perspective false
Air that I can't breathe
Story unfolded
I couldn't rewrite
The end where you leave

Beautiful Ghost

You look right through me
And still see her face
You walk right past me
in another dimension of space
Beautiful Ghost
My Beautiful Ghost
You move in and out and over
never quite real to the touch
always just out of reach
though I love you so much
You'll never move forward
while you're turning away
trapped within her memory
nowhere home to stay
My love is not enough
to bring you into this realm
you have to want to let her go
and be born of this earth again
Beautiful Ghost
My Beautiful Ghost
Half dead and tripping
Beautiful Ghost
Half alive and slipping
Beautiful Ghost
I can't rescue you
Beautiful Ghost
She's killing me too
Goodbye then to my ghost
how I loved your haunted song
But its time to let you go
Back where you belong...

Replaceable

Nameless
Faceless
girl with long hair
Touch her
Kiss her
Revel inside there
Drink her up
Drink her in
Finally come up for air
Charming smile
Cold Heart
Pretend that you care
Choking on truth
Swallow it down
lies she will bare
Tangled within
Stubborn without
Find another for your lair...

He and Me

I will not have
a life unlived
on the edge of fear
the sweet small voice
within my jaded heart
I still hear
He writes a perfect melody
waiting on me for the harmony
I turn
I move
I start
I struggle to let go
lest I fall apart
but God’s alive and inside me grows
He pushes me to soar for He knows
the music buried alive mustn’t die
I am no longer able to live my lie
with gentle hands, He reaches out
upon my tongue, He rolls about
together infused, we birth a song
He hums the tune, I sing along
and beauty small and heaven sent
through the terror and mire he rents
and from bud to glorious flower
we create hour after hour
Dusk sneaks up behind me now
day has past, upon my vow
I committed, laid open wide
my heart to Him of the eternal tide
And with Him I will create and guide
and fear not, for He walks beside
Never will I be alone
in complete safety, I will roam
and live
and breathe
each moment still
in rapture
in sunlight
upon each hill
every day unlike the past
each experience I will grasp
and learn
and move
in separate time
and pen the dance
and dance the rhyme….

I still believe...

I still believe in love
though it has been a while
since I have seen it
I still believe in the Lord
though he whispers softly
and sometimes I turn away
I still believe in angels
though they are at times
hard to see
I still believe in possibilities
unlimited and enduring
I still believe in people
though they turn from me
and judge
sometimes erroneously
I still believe in seeing
the spirit of the person
standing in front of me
though it can have painful
ramifications
I still believe
and thank the Lord
my spirit has been preserved
I desire to remain
pure in my ability to see you
though it is tempting
to rely only on the temporal
and walk away in disgust

Subjective Reality

Where are you really?
Be alone
Be with others
Be wherever you need to be
Be without me
But please
Be real
Be honest
Be true
at least to yourself...