my stuff

the party

the evening raced to midnight now you sense each second pass an awkward cough, an “i should go” i goodbye on the grass talelights fade behind the bend you know this day is done the lights are off, the door is locked you don’t pick up the fun it’s cluttered on the floor like some…
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song for the ignored

i squeeze every ounce of joy out of my day to hand to you you swallow it and smile a runner with one less mile but deeper words lie like seeds you don’t have time to sort through i have to keep it shallow if i’m going to keep you tell me that i matter…
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reach

if i climbed to the highest would you know my name if i hid in the lowest would you still see my shame? if i cry cause i’m lonely would you send a friend if i tell her goodbye will i see her again? why waste my wonder on the skies i live under cause…
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no fool

i writing more than i thought i could i’m saying more than i probably should maybe i will keep rambling on till you come back to tell me you’re gone yeah, you can tap me on the shoulder and say, “look, we all grow older” if you’re tired of reading my letters filled with hope…
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meant the world

so you ascended endless stairs promises that proved out lies you climbed higher than having to care i couldn’t follow (believe me i tried) i stumbled up to see your face feeling unfit to leave the ground your apathy i labelled grace your words tore my wisdom down you meant the world to me but…
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heaven

i wake in dreams and weep for joy my sight no hope could hold i see bright streets with crowds in song the end of my road so long and pierced hands pull faith from doubt to lead a child home no shame of self, no sad looks back clear streams wash the past off…
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choice

i’m not a child full of fear with monsters in my closet i’m not a soldier in the trench praying the line holds tonight but i hide like a prisoner when the warden says it’s time i’m a guilty man running from the music i’m afraid you’ll find me and ask me to explain…
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be who i am

i think of you when i’m lonely when i have a story to tell i could always get a laugh from you like water from a well wrap my words around you like a blanket keep you warm hold my love over your head like shelter from the storm but i need you…to hold my…
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All Over Me

she doesn’t think about me anymore there ain’t gonna be a phonecall no letter to see what i’m up to today no postcard she bought at the mall i like to think it’s still an issue that she wants to go back again but it’s only a dream that we could be anything, even just…
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tell me what’s wrong

you’ll have to try harder to hold me i’m getting better at running away i cannot see how it all works out i don’t believe a thing that you say if i am special, then i’m rare and that makes me harder to find but i’ve been picked up and put down i have been…
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