Knifeheart

"Knifeheart"
Sketched up in a couple days
Finished 15 August, 2010

Wishings of a Songbird (unfinished)

Started in a hotel deep in the heart of Alabama...

Wishings of a Songbird

Perched atop a maple tree
Sat a songbird watching me
Wond'ring to myself, I say
How happy can you really be?

Day by day you flirt and sing
Ne'er a care from anything
Full of cheer and such delight
Light in step and feathered wing

Deep inside how must you yearn
Know you well, that ardent burn?
Felt by one in such a plight
Having nowhere left to turn

Hidden deep beneath your song
Lie the ways that you've been wronged

Leaving ( II )

Is "Verbal Separation" a valid term or did I just make it up? :(

Leaving ( II )

Solemn sorrow finds the heart
Stoic resignation stands
Eye to eye yet worlds apart
Falling short of just demands

Lost in thought and on our own
We at last admit defeat
Here again we stand alone
Our fairy tale incomplete

Leaving cold and bitter words
And lingering discontent
We take to heart what we've heard
Find the lives for which we're meant

- 16 February, 2010

Freezing Fog

A couple evenings of intense fog during near-freezing temperatures created a crystallized world at which I love to gaze. Driving these last two mornings has been wondrous and introspective.


Freezing Fog
Winter's chill hath softened
Ere waking of the Spring
The clouds came down
Now fog is found
Ice frosting everything
- 18 January, 2010

Lush

What goes better with drinking than pirates?! Three days of listening to Alestorm will do that to ya ;)


Lush

Excessive sunlight streaming through
A window streaked by liquored hands
From lass and lad who downed a few
In mugs and jars from far 'way lands.
The laughs were loud, the fun got wild,
Still the bar maid merely smiled.
Raucous now the noise was growing
Yet rum and mead still went about,
The night showed naught of e'er slowing
Till one by one the lush passed out.
Still and quiet the hours grew,
Then sunlight broke the day anew.

- 15 January, 2010

Untitled

A morning spent driving around the highways and interstates, thinking about the last few nights and phone calls...


Untitled

Each sunset keeps me thinking, always wondering
How it is we got this way, always left wanting.
Every phone call ends the same, goodnights said in vain;
Better nights cannot be had after so much pain.
How we try to mend the "us", try and try once more;
Fighting done with soft-spoke words, our own civil war.
Changes need be quicker made, if we are to last;
Deeper love-bonds must be won ere we come the past.

- 14 January, 2010

Happiness

After waking up at three in the morning a few nights, only to lie in bed and stare at the ceiling with a head full of thoughts, I decided to stay up last night and write a little bit...


Happiness

Far too long we've spent apart,
and time has taken its toll
on your heart and convictions.
Your distrust and disbelief
have taken their toll on me.
Why is it we "fight" so much?

I know I've hurt you before.
How I've tried to make amends
for all that I've put you through.
What I don't know how to say
is that you've been hurting me
with each unresolved issue.

Bringing up from years ago
the unhappiness and doubt
that still remains within you
convinces me it's futile.
I will never live this down,
and you will never trust me.

You ask me to support you
and to just be there for you.
I've spent a year and more
listening and supporting,
I've been waiting... wondering
why it hasn't changed your heart.

What is it I'm doing wrong?
Maybe it isn't just me...
And maybe it isn't you...
Have we grown too far apart?
The real question for me though...
How can we both be happy?

- 05 January, 2010