There is pain and there is peace And there is a moment where both cease To mean anything at all And I’m staring at a wall Just tap tapping my pen And I feel it all again And it is as though the universe rehearse The plaid shirt poetry in my verse As it speaks to me through life And I always thought I’d be a wife But that doesn’t seem to be my thing I would prefer truth over a ring And I can’t condense this immaculate soul Into something that is just a role For there is love and there is joy But can I tie myself to a boy Forevermore And forsake the soul I adore Or is there a way he can open the expanse So that both our spirits will dance Together in unison But he just chooses to get his gun And shoot at cacti in the desert I question his poor self worth But he doesn’t seem to be inclined to rise And settles like sand at the bottom of my eyes And the glass is half empty, never full I bathe his wounds with cotton wool So it will not inflict too much pain But how can a man stand this much rain And I know the fields are green so There is much that will grow And an abundance of fertility And for all his virility I can’t put my finger on what isn’t gone I just know I can’t ignore our song As I pull back from the book and gram Some metaverse serving someone’s plan In the ether It’s not me either It’s a seed to sow I hold on, just so you know And though you beg me to let go It’s just not in my make up So why don’t you just wake up And see the sky above your head it will keep you from the dread That forms moats around your castles And I know you want a girl with tassels But I don’t think that’s what I am I said to him as I hold his hand And in confusion iridescent blue Meets my own in a new hue
I try to block the truth from reaching me And all the universe is teaching me Has to turn into a baseball bat Instead of the original welcome mat He offered me love in the extreme And though it was a part of the dream It had something real to it too And I realised I was in love with you But I turned away Because what is it that people say We are too different to make it work And you are bathed in the hurt You’ve spent your whole life accumulate And you’ve let it make you hate People you don’t understand But you’re beautiful and I love you, man And I know the dial will turn to spin on me So I let you go free And I feel your resignation and resolution But you know that is no solution So I have to intervene Did you hear me scream When my brain came apart in two That was life splitting me from you And we both fragmented into an entangled particle And people start to call me “some article” But I don’t mind Because I have not left you behind You’re still in my soul Like the bed of truth and rock and roll And it doesn’t matter, come what may I’ll sing this song to you and you’ll wake and say I love you Laura And as I read your aura It will speak volumes of colour And all that made you duller Will lift and release And we will make that beast Retract into its cave Go back into the dark so grave Like the boy I could not save He became the man I crave
I was too soon to know What I had let go When I was young And the bell rung To signal class had begun And it was all systems go Business as usual so Ms. Earley came into the class How was I to know that day would break the cast That had solidified around me And it beckoned to ground me Into the earth it knew And I was far away from loving you That day But somehow, nothing would get in my way And the ground fell apart as I crumbled The ball was thrown and I fumbled The past How was I to know that day would last And I felt the dark encroach Around the subject that we broach Perched on the edge of a prayer It was the last moment “I” was there As I began to sway and lose consciousness It was as though I undress In front of everyone And the sun That was about to shine Was to say it had always been mine In the subterfuge And I thought that no dude Could ever move me from that place But that was until I saw his face Masked in subtle tones Now we’re staring at each other through our phones As we don’t talk But we walk Every bloody mile of ground Until we hear the sound Of forever in a glance Would you just shut up and dance With me And let my love set you free You know it can I knew it when you took my hand And showed me a handshake that people forget But I haven’t yet Like I swore I would Make good On ever word I uttered Is your bread buttered On both sides Because I am still alive In your heart and soul So put away your begging bowl And look within Lightning struck a second time with him
I think I've found the princess and the pea
And the thing that was troubling me
Coz it started that summer after we met
Something about time and what we cannot forget
And it was just a day
But it changed everything anyway
And you were a little emo cool
I was a little high achiever in school
And we both wrote our own stories
It doesn't help that yours always floors me
With your honesty and straight talk
If I knew you better I would've said you'd walk
But as it was we sat side by side
And I felt I knew what was inside
You from the way you stared at my frame
And I barely know your name
But it's been embedded in my mind since
As if you are the perfect prince
To cut through the brambles and briars
To wake the one who sleeps through fires
And I know I should not utter the truth
Lest I find myself in league with a brute
Who evinces all that there is to be
When I discovered you with me
It was as though a holy sun burned
It was as though the axis turned
Just for the sake of gravity
And it's the magnetism that pulls you to me
In the era of high agenda
You don't have to defend that
Same old little pocket of pain
Because I will only assuage the rain
That kisses the ground and grows the grass
And the trouble is not born to last
But to come and go
So that we both might know
What peace will entertain
You are a beautiful refrain
As we grow the earth
Up out of it's time of hurt
Into the knowledge of the sun
And that we all are one
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