Zipper my hem
To keep me free to run
Until you trip me up
With your blue skies
Tough knees
Making me dodge and plead
You are the one folding from the thoughts of speech
I beg to borrow so I can be your air
Let down my hem
So I can dress myself
in who I really am
All I need is the wind to push me into myself
and towards you
So we can fall together
Into our new forever

Her face remains silent
Her thoughts race no faster
than the interval between breaths
Her eyes reflect images
as salient as the warmth of her touch
Her words free of binding
and tip towards that of aridness
Her movements supernaturally spun
in slow amniotic temperateness
Her presence ominous yet takes the form of light
guiding fear out of darkness
Her existence evident with a hush of a push
moving those that inquire towards the better part of themselves

I want her to become me!

Sometimes

When I am bent

My mind feels the break

But my thoughts misguide me

It is not that I am soon to be split

In two

I just need to release the tension

And bend in the direction

Of this new experience

It is the fight that threatens my connections

As long as my mind softly sits

I will remain whole

And in the end

Fully alive

My Eyes

All that my life is, 

 is what I see that lies in front of me

What I see evokes feelings

How I feel about what I see

 determines my life

Because I can choose how I feel

 about what I see,

 I choose truth

But sometimes how I see and what I see

 is skewed by you and them

I am now a lie to myself

By you telling me what to see,

 how to feel about what I see

 and therefore sometimes this becomes

 more your life or their life rather than mine

So, I choose to remove you and them

 from my life's equation

 and that leaves the truth

ME!

How do we change the world we see? How about a game of tag where everyone is "IT"!

Tag, you're it and nowhere on Earth is safe!

Real Richness

Silly little castles

Stop screaming into black

No one needs you now

Even kings have given crowns back

Your kingdom has stretched

To fairy tale heights

While the dragon's burning the common's wealth

And no one can find the timid knights

It was the greed of the people

To have like the king

Silly little people

Your ruler never really had a thing

He owned all of you

And as you scrambled to give

In his fight to have more

He never even lived

There is but one

That ended up with it all

The king's jester kept every smile

The large and the small

For a fool pays for laughter

In hopes his heart will sing

Yet, it is the receiver of the smile

Who is richer than any king

Absent From You

I am broken and shallow

You won't need to look too deep

I'm a mimic of you

With the same deflating disease

You've modeled it well

I've wanted it too

If it wasn't for how you smiled

As it swallowed you through

I could have stayed to pull you out

And try to keep you intact

But the cause of your fall

Was from you turning your back

You snuffed all the clues

That screamed in your wake

You chose to allude

All the advice for my sake

I feel it now, I can see right through

You did this for me and I'll do this for you

I will give all I have and nail closed the door

When you come looking around

You will find me no more

The Enemy Mind

Stop eating your thoughts

  as if they have flavor

It's the control of your soul

  that your thought's tempt to savor

You unwillingly give in

   as if there was a chance to live free

There was no way to know 

   you gave birth to your enemy

It's parasitic

Catastrophic

And you keep consuming those

  thoughts as if you're heroic

Strengths not a given

It takes will to control

To find the cracks of the mind

  that let the thoughts seep in whole

They evade

To persuade 

You to feel 

What you think 

  is actually real

Misminded

I am lost

But I have found

That when you can't find your way

You look

Deeper 

Wider

You feel it all

Life takes on a new life

For when you feel you are found

You stop looking to see

And stop feeling

You become consumed with

What you feel is in your grasp

You're so numb with rambling thoughts

That what you hold becomes cold from

Neglect

And if you are lucky

You will feel lost

    and you will then

Begin your search to live

Cleanse

Oh how I wished 

You'd listen

For my ear is bent 

And tired

Please take the role of friend

For my heart aches 

To

My hands are tired from

Lifting

Your spirits that weigh

With woes

Mostly placed there

By your misshapen 

Ego

I loved and gave

But refused to sink with you

You wanted 

An anchor

You searched them out

You held them tight

Until they pulled on

You

Laughter and hope

A rarity

No inspiration

No clarity

Did I feel loved 

No

Not even warm

You only gave

So 

You would receive

I really wanted to share

This life

Yet too often

I lived in yours

So

I feel it is now time

To clean my days

And finally let you go