For once in my life
I'd like to be more
Than the thing
Tacked on at the end.

It's that old familiar feeling
The music has stopped
And I'm the last one standing

It's nothing. Just
Another day
Painted over
Yesterday

Smile

I'm trying.

Seal it in
Too much too long
So like everyone
Not crying
Just leaking at the seams

I haven't forgotten
How to smile
I just can't remember
Why

Brittle

The Waves

Close to forgiven
So close to the past
Closed like the door never was
Life has this way
Of threading the needle
So it's buried in a haystack in your soul
A breath of forgiveness
Itself incomplete
Why do words pack up and go every time?
Go run the numbers
It's where the waves meet
The sand only serves to remind

Oh won't you sing me a song
I promise won't be for long
Even the brightest stars
Can't burn forever
It will keep me alive till you're gone

Close to forgiven
So close to the past
Closed like the look in your eyes
It's tough, I remember
To blink, I forget
If I ever didn't feel it inside.

You know you had something
By the look in your face
You feel it when they
Take it away.

When you are stuck in a hole
The future only looks bright
When you are looking up

Full Circle

It doesn't always go this way
But sometimes it has to
When tomorrow settles
In trust and ashes.

I guess even tomorrows come
Sometimes

If you were a pretty butterfly
I do not think that you could fly
All your spikey armour would
Keep your feet on ground for good.

I spell worse than a skunk with a cold.

Rhymes and sounds kinda trippy. Or something.

Peace is hard to find
Pieces of my mind.

Now I know why 'Idiot' begins with an I

Find the space to say hello

I used to like
The colour of sadness
The feel of cold lips
Pressed against the pain
I used to know rain
Like friendship
Or the back of my hand
I used to.

Spoon fed
Puppy lead
Splash the pools
Don't get wet

A Phonecall

Bvvvt Bvvvt

Bursting from the blue
Cellphone marching slowly
On microscopic feet
Wrap it in quick hands

Bvvvt Bvvvt

Feel the fragile heartbeat
"Hello?"
A statement. A question
Drifting back through the ether
Seconds hang thickly
Like melting wax
"It's Peter"
Wax pools into a smile
"Hello"