back to you

yesterdays
have come and gone
all the things
i thought i knew.
a shattered picture
in my hands
with so many jagged edges
it’s impossible
to put the pieces
back together.
we could only
lose ourselves again
with every promise,
an imperfect eternity.
yet i fly into the wind
selling my soul
along the way
and make my way
back to you
again.  ©

silent footsteps

walking away
sadness in his eyes
trying to hide the pain
shame
forcing me to stare at the ground
pushing away love
always staying within myself
a solemn hell
not knowing the way back home
anymore
just making it through the day
pretending
everything’s alright
standing tall in unbearable chains
walking towards me
stranger on the way ©

uncentered

is it wrong to hold it in my heart
this sadness
less defined now
giving way to feelings unknown
so convinced
a fool can sell his soul any day
the legacy you left behind
now cautiously meeting love
with such skepticism
trying to get out of my own way
because
sometimes being myself
just isn’t who i want to be
cover of the night
crying in the dark
but only when i allow myself
to think
i’m stronger now ©

The song remains the same

Life moves on
broken spirits mend
but each night
as I look at the moon
I still wonder
for a brief moment
if tomorrow might be the day
you’ll open the door to your soul
just one more time.  ©

sd, where are you?

 

shiny happy people

On this road called life
so abundant with promise
too many people pass
eyes cast downward
hearts left behind.
Many though they are
few can see how
even as seasons change
they remain the same
locked up
never really breaking free.
As the day grows long
and the dark grows thick above my head
at least I can close my eyes
and say goodbye to the night sky
without regret. ©

Days like today

Today was just
one of those days
where everything I did
reminded me of you and
every song I heard
somehow related to you.

I hate days like today.

“A thousand years, the mysteries unfold themselves like galaxies in my head … “

Lost and found

… for A – because “maybe i’m amazed at the way you (seem to) love me all the time”

Maybe
this broken heart
held in your hands
so tenderly
can just begin to believe
once again.
Like the sun shining
brilliantly
you soar so high
taking my soul along for the ride,
your promises
lifting my heavy heart,
your gentle touch
always healing.
Things that are lost,
maybe found ©

Once in a blue moon

Someone
amazing
comes
into
your
life
at
the
exact
moment
you
need
them
most
and
proves
that
unconditional
love
is
real

paw prints

truth be told,
i miss you…
the footprints
you left on my heart,
the faded vestiges
of a love i believed in
are barely visible
but everlasting
impressions
nevertheless.©

 

Dig me up

(To A – For “digging me up from underneath what is covering the better part of me”… I love you.)

Because of you
I know it’s not too late
to breathe again,
freed from prison chains
ready to see
what the world has in store.
You found me and
I got a glimpse of heaven,
I see you and know
that I’m not gone,
and that I can travel
this long road
with your hand
in mine. ©

 

and just like that

all the things you promised you’d tell me
became all the things i knew you’d never say
and suddenly i realized
it wasn’t you i was missing
it was who i thought you were
because when i really took a breath
to think about it
it dawned on me that
you weren’t who i thought you were
and in the end
you lost more than i did ©

glimmers

the soul finds not what it seeks
when the world’s
closed the door

days have turned
to weeks,
yet sometimes
when i see the moon
reflecting off the stars,
i still think
i can feel you
within my heart …

but i know
not to hang my hat
on hope ©