Heavy

Naive and clueless

Or brave and courageous

Love is a big word

Whispered without meaning

Beneath twisted sheets

But forever is too big

To fuck up

To fake

To toss around lightly

It is anything but light

It is heavy and makes you sigh

So take a breath

And get ready

To turn these promises

Into stone

Because we've started love

Let's begin forever

Dancing

I'm dancing between my sheets

While you're playing for keeps

Paper cranes and noisy sobs

Energy moving nowhere

Everywhere

Backwards

Forwards

A bee in a jar

skinny rhyme

her skeletal frame

keeps repeating names

from sweeter days

in the hope that it'll

keep her sane

but

it's

weeks too late

for keeping faith

she can't remember when a piece of cake

didn't end in retching pains

but the seasons have changed

to sleet and rain

and now a creeping shame

reminds her of faeces stains

Her minds like a

leaking

drain

Unable to hear reasonable claims

That she's seeping away

through the floor of this freezing cage

and until she

cleans that plate

this girl has

sealed her fate.

Twirling

There is incense curling upwards towards me

And I'm dancing

There is music all around me

And I'm dancing

A little wild

Red Indian child

Yelling and chanting

Songs from yesteryear

When things were a little more simple

And I'm dancing

Feral and free

Burning

It's been years since you've spoken to me properly

Looked me in the eye and told me something you mean

You never mean much

You're just mean a lot

But this time you're worried

Actually afraid

That i'll make the mistakes you did

While my life away

That's all well and good

But i'm a stronger breed

And i'll build my own opinions

Standing on a foundation of observation

and when I see something wrong

I'll have the strength to try and change it

So you can take your concerned words

And use them yourself

Take your own advice

Swallow it down

Because i'll be just fine

Building my own reality, thank you.

Gone

A dark congregation

Of familiar faces

Surrounding me

Enveloping me

Until

I'm gone

Child

I can hold my breath

I can furrow my brow

I can stamp my feet

And turn things sour

But it's just

Energy wasting

Remedy draining

Enemy gaining

bullshit.

So unclench your fists

and your rigid jaw

Because this is it

What you've been waiting for

Absorb it all while keeping your smile

Because that is the essence of your inner child.