Leaves change at all
when they fall,
even when they're
dead
I wish I could be so
flexible, I say;
so formed to the here
and now
I wonder how they do
it,
because I'm alive, but still, I
won't change at all....
We are the youth that pass the time
with bitter thoughts and awkward rhyme
singing songs that have no end,
ignorance is our only crime
with slowly moving, small, flat feet
we walk on down a crowded street
among our peers, we are alone
yet love the many friends we meet...
Caught in silence, and in peace
where winds can catch what words can't say
the trees will shake, their leaves release
when all other movements cease
the seasons halt their brisk relay
to cherish moments, subjected here
forgetting blooms of blushing May
for darker shades of an Autumn da...
As I remained still
a rose in a garden of many things
the world passed me by
a rose, watching as a honey-bee stings
my eyes glazed and left
a rose, being caught in falling rain
I think I must have gone insane
a fallen rose, that must remain...
I hate this town
where I feel bound
to familiar faces
falling down, falling frown
my routine paces
in ironic races
right back to the start;
this town, old places
on which it stands, the ground is art
reaching up to tear me apart
standing small, its crushing my heart
and hating this to...
It's funny how it goes
when no one ever knows
what falls above the apple tree
where belief has spread that nothing grows
It's funny how it seems to be
that all that we will ever see
rests before a naked eye
which holds in that of you and me
It's funny how I always cry
whi...
The direction goes as I go
too; upon the West, and
upon the blue.
The flowers bloom and grasses
grow; for reasons I have
yet to know --
Towards myself they grow, and to the
East; where beholden walks
a lonely Beast....
And there lies an apple
fallen, beneath an orange tree
from where it came, we cannot see
a fallen orange, it cannot be
We say the apple must be special
to fall in such an awkward place
and be found as a peculiar case
alone amidst another race
Without explanation to be had
the apple rema...
euphoric slumbers steal my mind,
when I am graced by thoughts so kind;
not of love or material gain,
but of standing dry, though bound in rain-
of feeling strength, without the pain.
---
sleep, my mind; sleep, my mind
with forty winks, my heart is blind
to real worries left behind
---
but ...
Scrape the asphalt
with those tires
that move the machine
that fuels the fire
that burns our time
spent in bills
of numbers that drive us
from an offer that kills –
let us escape,
let us ride free,
on material that takes us
where we want to be –
we all want the answer
so, is it so m...
Fixed in the darkness
with broken smiles
broken tools
fixed for life in a dimpling shadow
her broken face
You're right tonight
she'll smile in your way
but never with her own lips
never hers
tell me, what did you fix?
She cries
red wine and red wine
down her faulty face
br...
It’s spring again
A rosy-white flower petal falls
From a magnolia tree, to the ground
Stretching slightly in the cool breeze,
The petal remains undisturbed
And the world yawns
As the whole morning arrives
The magnolia tree
Embraces the petal, without a touch
A subtle protection from the...
I watch his face sparkle like shattered glass
A face like no other, the face of nude
His eyes are a guard that I wish to pass
His image, now gone, cannot be renewed
To enter his mind would be nice for me
To know how he thinks, to know who he is
The heart that’s beyond him, I wish to see
The...
"Oh, well you look nice today."
Is that all you have to say?
A deceptive malice you convey
when it's verbal irony in your "Hey -
oh, well you look nice today"
a voice is weak when it speaks that way
and quite deceptive, if I may
is it so hard, just to say
"O...
In our minds again,
the howl from beneath us
the terror in a scream
the voice of the dumb
the shock hits us in our feet
in our feet, so we walk it off
we shake it off,
ignore a spiteful face in the sand,
and stand, stand again
in our minds again,
the pained sigh of defeat,
the sound o...
I've got him all in my head
and someone's pasted his picture
inside my eyes
doubling over with the pain of this,
I can't even whisper
what my mind is screeching
I'm in love!
I'm in love!
No, not today....
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"I'm on an express elevator to hell", my mother sighed after I'd tried for the third unsuccessful time that day to engage her in conversation. She tilted her head back in the driver's seat of the car, and squinted as she rubbed her eyes. "It would help if we spoke the s...
Could it be?
when the Others cannot see?
(they fell face down,
and never got up)
The moon is shifting
the tide is seizing
(Water envelopes Earth,
and its quaking brings no mercy)
Water blurs Their eyes,
and burns Their noses
(Earth can taste nothing but the salt of Water,
but Water ta...
I can't tell you
how it feels
to live in a world
that isn't real
to die in truth,
but live in a lie
to love to live
but be forced to die
Engineered
in a space above
built with hate
and no room to love
My reality is lost
it's sad, I can't say
you'll never kn...
A rusty day, I thought
old and old and old
the pain that clung to the first
only got worse
each day,
each rusty, rusty day.
A spongy night, I thought
soaked and soaked and soaked
the tears that fell the first
only got worse
each night,
each spongy, spongy night.
A dead life, I though...
Charlie was different. He wasn't your average six-year-old boy. It really was quite a shame that his parents didn't realize that before they died. The coroner's report claimed it was an accident that killed them. Bad wiring in the house is what caused the fire. The parents never woke, but somehow Ch...
the other day
I noticed a man who was never there before
sitting alone at a park bench
across the street from my apartment building.
I watched him as he crossed and uncrossed his legs,
and I knew that he was waiting for something.
I stopped spying and minded my own business,
but in a few hour...
The Cassidys rocked the set of ABC Family's new comedy televisions series Ruby and the Rockits. Playing the roles of two former 80's rock stars, David and Patrick Gallagher, the Cassidy brothers took modern television and twisted it into something new, different, and strangely exciting, someth...
I want to be inside of you
a fly on the wall of your mind
I want to lick your brain
cherishing the taste of its fluids
I want to swim in the cool blue of your blood
riding your veins like a roller-coaster
I want to be a chain of sparks racing down your spine
that excites each nerve in your bo...
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