I am just 

The child of your ghost

Haunting everything

That I fear the most
Don't go on in pretending

The mirror doesn't lie

I lost you in the movies

When the credits tumbled by

Just a child

Of the ghost

Of the look in your eye

He beckoned to the thoughts of words
But they refused to come
They told him they had other things
They'd rather to get done

I'm going to build me a rocket
And find the final end of things
I wasn't afraid of flying
Till you gave me wings

Down by the lake
I let my time go
Watching dragonflies
All thick and fat and slow

The wind is in the reeds
With quiet in its teeth
I remember you
And somehow you are with me

Inside the smile written on my face

I lose sleep
When we forget how to talk
I keep the words you wrote
Beside me when I walk

This distance isn't dangerous
It kills us with a look
You always found the time
To give more than I took

Even when you lost your place

The wind has moved on
And left the lake to me
Where changes on the surface
Can't scratch the deep

Patience
Is such a heavy thing
Because of all the wait

I have lost the music
The tune that I carried
With tomorrow's lips
Has quietly slipped  away
I wonder when

Faith is
Hope clutched tightly

On the Surface

You skimmed the world across my pond
And counted every ripple
Till even the last one found my crinkled edges
And died


I like you
Not because of who you are
But because of where you were
So you could be who you are
To me.