One and The Same

How could I sitting miles away
Know how you feel before you do?

My heart opens up to you
No restraints, no walls
It's what it's meant to do

Lips to speak your name
Eyes to seek your face
Hands to help you in whatever

No, I have no sense of time
I have no sense of anything
Within you, I have everything
Without you, it's all over.

Letting You Go

What if I was sleeping and sleeping found
My feet walking towards you
Would you hug me and let the dream go on
Or would you turn me away as you've done before?

What if while speaking to you
Words left of their own accord
And twirled around your heart
Would you accept their warm embrace
Or would you simply turn your back?

I know I've let you go
But still I haven't felt it
Would I reject a little pride
To be beside you again?
Of course not, I'm as proud as you seem to be
I'll simply let go of you
Again.

Rage

I would tear up all the papers
Of all the letters we ever shared
I would burn all the reasons
Why I ever thought you cared
I cared
But how do I burn up a mind
Already spinning out of my control
Damn it! How to stop the the thoughts
How to stem what won't be caught?
Why did i ever memorize?
Memories turned out to be lies?
Why didn't I ever see
That like everyone else your age
You were nowhere near ready
To let go and find yourself so deep in me
Now I'm burning up the evidence
I'm screaming at the top of my lungs to drown out the din
Would it please you to know
I nearly ran a knife through this heart
To stop it behaving as it does
If it does not live it does not love
These tears fill up the silver cups
I'm drinking my sorrow
Saline medicine another futile way
To deaden the cells, the sensitivity
I'm still chasing the demon of your supposed love
Tie me up and cross me out
I now know you know nothing about
This stormy emotion parading as love
Ripping through my soul and burning everything
I can't act, I can't think
So seeped in the sensations of what used to be
Reverse what happened between us
I don't ever want to see you again.

Push your memory away

I try to push your memory away
But every time it calls me back to say
Howdy mam! It’s been a long time
Gonna come and mess your head for a while

We've Held Hands

Scan the pages of a book
Seep into the frames of a scene
It doesn't feel apart from you
It feels like a place where you have been

And the words as you pick them up
Flow like silk over your skin
They shimmer upon your mind
And find a way to reach deep within

Oh! I feel I know you stranger
Strangers no more, our minds connect
Strange reader of a strange writer
Worlds apart, worlds intersect

And you find in each word a new key
To understand this person created by me
Is it me?
Are these my thoughts?
You discover this world which I've created
Yet you feel at home
Like this was yours

You look for me within the pages
But you do not need to know who I am
In sharing minds, we've shared visions
In sharing visions, we've held hands

My Mistress Becomes My Wife

I used to send secret letters to you
Spend hours writing each one
Yet they thought I wasn't crazy for you
That you were just a piece of fun

I'm leaving everything behind
And coming to you to stay
They may be shocked and startled
We always knew it would come to this day

I'm leaving her behind
All she gave me were an empty heart and hollow home
I'm coming to you to stay forever
I'm leaving her all alone

Song of the Banshee

The banshees came in the night time
Asking me to sing them a song
They wanted to hear the music of the living
A song that had eluded them all life long

So I strummed a few notes upon the strings
And hummed in time as I tapped my foot
They clapped their hands, they danced about
In crimson cloaks, painted with soot

When I began to sing the words aloud
They stopped and listened as I sang of love
They laughed as they listened with tears of mirth
Their heads rolled around and their eyes popped out

Stop they told me for such jest was too much
They didn't think too much of human love
They had stopped trying to find human pairs after death
Instead they found triplets, quadruplets and fives

Unknown to them, Cupid had given me his charm
My guitar the bow, my notes the arrows
Girls would dance their lovers along

The ghosts emerged from the air
As I played and the banshees swirled
When my song ended, each had a pair

They bowed in gratitude, then turned away
But one I had forgotten, she held me in her sway
I realized as she sang, her voice was so much sweeter
Enamored I knelt, she ran towards me
Before I knew it, I was seeped within her

I laughed as she smiled,
I touched her cold, clammy skin
Ah, but with love, you can never win
Treacherous Cupid gave me a flying kiss goodbye
In my quest for love, I had found my way to die