Without You, No Longer Normal

Smiles, laughter, content inside

Without a care, nothing to hide

This was my world, the way it looked before

Then you entered in showing me so much more

More to life than dreams and jest

Less of dreams when reality is best

As if all of time was wrapped perfectly around you

Because what you've done to me is far deeper than true

Stopping all of time when you give merely a glance

Leads me to believe that this is more than just chance

Believing clearly in now, heart sings undeniable

Effortless loving, much more than natural

Tasting only this, without you is not normal

Silence through the Noise

Defined by the spotlight shined on you

Or the endless feast of pretentious words

They make up who you are

Satisfying words for the mere second they're alive

Indulging because you're famished

Speaking because you're speechless

Standing proud because you're void

Yes these things are like noises

Filtering the whispers that pinch deep into your conscious

Noise that kills sweet moments of realization

That life is more than popularity

The fairest in the land has no need for proclamation

The air they carry is enough

Because jewels can easily be replicated

Anyone can boast of personal gain

Singing sweet song of satisfaction

But when genuine acts overflow from a substance beneath

That is enough to quiet any impostor

And there's nothing wrong with silence

Because noise is everywhere

Words of silence linger in the air

Questions

Shatter every emotion

Unwrap me from your finger

Erase each ounce of possibility

What's left is what is meant to be

Easy to fit with clouded sensation

Molded with forced form, comfortable for a moment

Meant to test truest frame, to that nothing can be forced in

The simple truth, meant to break what's never fit to be

No sense is made of unwanted answers

When they come so gently after living through question

But they come without a choice but to listen

Hoping to listen once and not hear it again

Kings and Queens

Kings and queens of life's beautiful game

Choosing to watch or choosing to play

Dreams of being a queen in another's castle

Like the musing of a far-away, masqueraded attraction

A castle sits, flowers planted here

Choosing what will grow and soon will fade away

Giving pearls to those who enter in

Drawn here still, never forced to stay

Those who watch, amused, behind a fence

Always puzzled because of unseen moves

Because fools create their own reality

Weaved together by imprudent glances

This castle filled with many rooms

Roaming throughout with puzzled enlightenment

Secure in this fortress, a tale no more

New pages revealed from the queen alone

Blank pages are held for life's handsome poem

Why choose to live another's story

This story told with heartfelt voice

Ink that is filled with endless truths

Kings and queens

To each their own

A mansion of faith

Better fit for a queen

Closest Friend

You're worth more than a million loves

Deeper than any flesh and blood

You smile when I'm laughing

Delighted when I flourish

Your peace is in between

Felt when there is nothing

When I'm weak your love bleeds over

A grieve becomes a mend from you

You watch when I'm learning

Awake when I'm dreaming

Wise when I'm foolish

Strong when I'm hurting

Calm when I'm running

Quiet when I'm asking

Sound through confusion

Gentle through distraction

You let me write my story

Even when you can recite it

You're with me, far as eyes cannot see

With me as far as life can feel

I can feel it when you smile

Captivating life with me

What Do You See

Impossible Perfection

Pictures worth a thousand words

Words design a thousand thoughts

A picture-perfect painting

Seen only in the foreground

But backgrounds bleed into the light

There's nothing absolute here

At the drop of a pin, scenes erased

A world turns upside down

Perhaps it's playing, right side up

Heart without limits, unpredictably beats

Synchronized with scattered hope

A lens is placed, untouched perception

Maybe absolute exists here...

But foresight sees perfection

No chance of flaws, deliberate reigns

A future stains this canvas

A picture worth a thousand words

Words worth a thousand thoughts...

Catch one thought and you'll be waiting

Stay and linger in my silence

No, our eyes can't blink together

If they did we wouldn't know it

Speaking, quiet with our thoughts

The best way to hear, just look at me

I'll draw for you an image

Picture worth a thousand words

Words color a thousands thoughts...

Flying

Flying high above the wind, that familiar flight again takes place

Feathers white and stunning as her song

Pierce the air with soft, peculiar grace

Her destination is not clear

But felt it is, so very near

She stops just for a moment, no more alone

Solemn, quiet, it is not her home

Ordinary clouds decorate those skies

She cringes at the thought of ordinary guise

Home is not home, this time is not hers

She leaves for that familiar flight

High above to choose a new escape

Better to fly when the unknown is clear in sight

Faster and higher, this time it is real

So close, still far, that second sight of appeal

Merely existing at rest

Her air is powerful in the skies

It is what she dreams of beneath shut eyes

Set apart, detached, that is where she thrives

This love, play on repeat

Acting without loving, loving without acting

Twisted cycle, this song plays on repeat

Candle lit compassion, burnt out overnight

Love paralleled with law, polluting as it seems

A counterfeit emotion, always based to please

To gain the world, forget this true heart

Sugar-coated performance, deepest need done wrong

Loving, loving, leading to nothing

Authenticity so close, never replicated

Side-by-side, this concealed ache

Why not feed it with a genuine air

Love so true, never second guessed

Spoken and felt, transparent and sensed

Nourishes like a ballad, play it on repeat

Goodbye Strange, Familiar Friend

You welcomed me with hurt and pain

Wet eyes, dark heart, that's how we met

Strange at first, you entered in

Soft, slow, familiar friend

A year would start with tired eyes

Grabbing hold of any good within

Heavy, wanting, I fed you first

Weaknesses, persuaded right

That girl is strange

But familiar still

Alive in the moment

Gasping in the end

An appetite of tainted bread

Satisfaction is not supposed to ache

Attractive infection became your name

You didn't know I was strong enough

Yesterday I said goodbye

Smiling as you walked away

An awkward fit you were inside

Just a memory of a faded friend

My World Becoming

Give me a kiss and I’ll give you a string

To wrap the world around your finger

Or to simply throw it away

It doesn’t mean a thing

Give me a glance and I’ll look past all of time

To erase a piece of broken days

Or to void each boundless, confused heartbeat

I don’t need them anymore

Give me a gleam and I’ll never cry again

To live with an unshielded grin

Or to be a stranger to a painted mask

I can’t forge them anymore

Give me a moment and I’ll write your eternity

To live in this room we call forever

Or to make infinite time become today

I won’t weigh them anymore

In Between Dreams

I had a dream last night...

That it was all bright still and perfect

And you sat just right beside

Me and my thoughts we fed you

Ecstasy in love you were my ticket

To a soft and stainless world

We never left there always

Swimming in a place so in between dreams

Just too magical to talk there

Because you and all your charm

Made me feel like the world without you

Just a box with sun and air

But air without you is like poison

Take me to our world between dreams

And just hold me there forever

Wrapped around the moonlight

Sulking up the silence of this dream

Because words may take away

From the breath you breathe into my mind

Motions me to share this unmarred planet of our own

Forever in between dreams...

In His Own Skin

He basks in the masculinity of his being

He is made perfect by his blemishes and callous hands

He knows she expects everything of him and is not afraid of exceeding those or falling short

All because he lives in his own skin

His touch is gently attacking

His desire is passionately pure

His care is protectively trusting

He lives in his own skin

He leads her through the trials of life

And follows after the fragileness of her heart

He understands her every move

And yet he misinterprets her words alone

He lives in his own skin

He is the armor to her body when she is small and weak

He is the enduring patience within her when she summons to anxieties within

He does not crave attention through the haughtiness of his demeanor

He splendors in the attractiveness of his overwhelmingly large and bleeding heart

He lives in his own skin

He is her prince when life is perfect and all things magical exist

He is in her conscious mirage of heaven, even when she is wide awake

He holds on to her heart when she wants it to herself

He feeds her dreams when reality becomes a trance

He lives in his own skin

His mind is his own

His life bleeds through hers

His guise is his own

Transparent in her eyes

He lives in his own skin

From The Outside In

From the outside in you are beautiful

From the outside in you are confident

From the outside in you are pure

Is that you?

Beneath the perfect combination of skin and eyes, the shell of beauty crumbles

Below the charisma and charm, personality evaporates

Underneath the mask of purity, the mold of selfish ambition is revealed

Where are you?

Satisfaction is painted on your gates

A perfect plan is revealed at your door

Your window is covered with promises

This must be you...

Your past echoes regrets

The design of your life is out of tune

You can't remember the serenade of assurance that was played over and over before

Where are you?

I'm here, in between

Confined by my thoughts

Disturbed with perfection on the outside

Restoring the substance beneath

I'm here, in between