The empath walks and she believes In everything she finds upon her sleeves To be hers But all the wars That people fight In their own candlelight Are open season And she finds the reason To live And forgive The girl that broke her heart And left her in the darkest dark In the age of fourteen There were nights I couldn’t dream At all And every wall I ever faced Was somehow out of place In this vast open space Like stars in the darkness of the case We are all held within And the notion of sin Is archaic and grey And I don’t believe in it anyway As I make my First Confession I sit in the pews wondering what expression Of grief I should portray Because I cannot find the way To see evil inside of myself Everything is ancient and on the shelf And I take it down and dust off The trust that all is not lost As dawn breaks and I realise That I am more open skies Than I ever was land I see you there and I take your hand And lift you up And if I ever thought I knew love It was this moment here You are my eternal, dear
I don’t want to start a fight I don’t wannna take aim It’s just I catch my breath When I see her name Next to yours instead of mine It walks over me like a thousand times And I know she’s real nice but I would wait Until you trace the hands of fate And saw it bring you to my side In your presence I’m alive And soaring like a bird in flight And I know you might be alright But I’m nothing without you my sweetest babe I don’t even have the room to save Myself from the gnashing of teeth I think I’m stranded on the beach Waiting for my ship to come in And don’t you know it’s always Him No matter what is said to deter And I just wish the best for her Because she kept you close when times were tough And my excuse is simply not enough And I know I was away And you would always say You wanted someone And being too young Is no reason to protest I looked away, you did the rest As the cymbal clattered to the floor And I’ve never wanted anything more Than I want you now But I gotta give space to allow You to have your breathing room I loved you too late after too soon Coz you stride across the hill I look up and still I see you standing there With the wind in your hair And your magnitude Just a really cool dude To open my eyes into I know it’s not enough that you Loved me then before I let you go I’m writing this so you know That your soul has a place beside the embers I warm And you can chill by the heat of the storm And I know it’s really bad form To tell you this now when true love has been born And I see you with her And what we were Is just echoes now in my mind As I’m sad over what I’ve left behind And you say it’s gone But I can hear it in that song You play when you think nobody cares But I look through it all with devil may cares And your silhouette Is not something I could ever forget As the stars Make magical music out of the bars That hold me in If only I could get to him But it’s a futile shot He only sees all that I’m not Nor could be I amn’t she And we Eternity Could never refresh The page easily As a new sky dawns And our youth is almost nearly gone Eaten up by time Like the melody you sang with the line When you didn’t know That you are everywhere I go In college days I find you there in so many ways Just a glance A laugh, a second chance The fear The feeling you close as though you are near In the library But you’re kissing her beside me I just don’t see Til now, at least, an infinity And, love, will you ever know That I stared at you headlong until I go Back to your door Rap a knock like a mini score But you adore The Goddess you found by the shore And I know Though I implore Everything’s settled on the ground floor And foundations deep Underlie all that you intend to keep And just a day A million light years away Can’t convince You to change your mind since I showed up I don’t even know if you could call this love It’s just you’re everything I’m thinking of And the sky Holds nothing to the blue of your eye Black hole deep Full of the light that it will keep From a million stars that throw away Their beams to your frame as you walk away And I Will love you like this til the day that I die And cry That we never got to be As he takes the role of the quintessential he Of my dreams I know it’s not all that it seems And I’m not Einstein But would I be a fool to call you mine In another dimension One without all the surface tension And suspense We climbed out of both of our tents Never knowing what’s in store Where the zip on the line made way for a door And you, effervescent you, just laugh You don’t do things by half Do you And if it means that much to You I will love her too Celebrate the days of you Two down in the park Before I even knew that we start Oh, the longing to be Somewhere near your soliloquy But it just rhymes somewhere in the distance And I give up on the resistance And allow You to live your own life somehow Just know I love you deep like the mountain of snow That rolls down avalanche cloud My voice is shaking but I say it out loud And the words don’t make sense and you’re shouting at me Something about nothing and our history And the lines blur You were always with her In the years And the tears And you see This, you and I, and Infinity
Stephen’s words are gentle true And I want to make the stars with you As you gaze out from a constellation And I have to say my medication Hasn’t prepared me for a moment like this One where opposites kiss Across a table And you aren’t able To hold back the smile I catch you all the while Laughing with your face lit up And I guess you could call this love Except for the fact You don’t want me back In that place again The only good thing was the men Who used to be good to me In days I lost my liberty To a staunch defender It was enough to render The articulation in my image The town was talking, the whole village Was effervescent with the notion That I was caught in my emotion And a subtle drawl Draped over me like a shawl In winter time Are you sublime Or just ocean, seas You could call it a modern disease To be brought low Places where I dare not go Or with a shudder There with any other And to be soothe with my music It’s the path I walked but I didn’t choose it
The trees just stand tall They don’t go running around And a leaf falls in silence To land on the ground And the age rolls on by me It’s a calamitous affair And I’m asked by my soul To receive the prayer That it is offering Up to the sky There is that that lives on Even when we die There is that that wakes Even when we sleep There’s no promise you can make That it will not keep And I’m walking the aisles Of the ruin of me Wondering if The rain could be set free As it pours in through A hole in the roof Living my life Must be the proof Of all that’s gone by And all that’s yet to come But if you look for this moment You’ll find it is one One with the dark One with the dawn One within That can never be gone That keeps on rolling The hills and the valleys The no we can’t’s And maybe we, shall we’s But in the end It all comes down to this Will you seize the moment Or will you miss It as it Goes passing by I’m sorry, my love But I had to try To win you over And take my chance Now I move with the wind And watch the leaves dance In a symphony Of quietude The noise subsides And you’re a pretty cool dude Who keeps me there By a thread I profess my love You stay silent instead And the roar of the ocean cannot drown out The waves of me and my doubt As I fail to see What you’re asking for I look at you And I adore Everything that is there to see Could you picture you with me?
The Poetry Book 