Tiger Praying

"I've got to feel you in my bones again...." -spill canvas
               please don't leave.

Remind Me

Remind me again
how to pretend
how to live an entire life
to then begin from the end.
Remind me of rapture;
the forsaken stay in your sway,
leaves me a tiger in the ruins
wishing for you in the remains of the day.

"Sometimes I wish that the tide would take me....."

You were right about this lifetime
but keep following from the distance
compose me a serenade
to keep me moving through this dance.
Remind me again
how to comprehend
love letters slipping from my fingertips
that I read but never send.

"Sometimes I wish that the tide would take me....."

Remind me again there's time past December;
say you love me, say you won't...
tell me I how I have changed,
into the double dare you don't.
Remind me again there's time past December.
Together we remember embers glowing in the ash.
Lift me from the scorched pyre,
from the wreckage and reverie of our past.

Least

I fear all you see

is the worst there is in me

and don’t know how,

that ever came to be.

I loved you with all I had and more.

I loved you under lock and key,

because you were never very certain,

what the hell you wanted from me.

Now I’m walking down the road,

in your favorite over coat

trying to kill the chill over 
your beckoning ghost.

I’m an absolute mess

and I must confess

the things I need least

is what I miss the most.

Josephine

And her name was Josephine,

she was scarred and tattooed,

intuitive and lean.

She smelled of cloves and ginger,

“Danger” was written on her chest

between drags she pontificates

and lays the beast to rest.

We watch from gothic arches

as fireworks explode into a haze.

Josephine built a house of matches

and turned her back to the climbing blaze.

But Josephine you were good to me

even though landlocked’s never easy...

She was a cyclone twisting ferociously,

her raw fury shook the mountains.

We sat out the rain

and chased the train,

we drift to the forest of firefly fountains.

Goodbye is never forever

I remember as we kissed our last,

Josephine was a meteor over Mercury,

decorating midnight hours with a blast.

Changeless

Remind me of promises that never expire,

spark the life in me that leaps to desire

remind of a night bearing no end,

as innocent thoughts turn into wildfire.  

Please believe me like you do

from my dream of blues I'm true to you.

Keep our constellation changeless,

from the next life it will grow

and lead us to the same coast,

knowing the thing we now know.

It's to beautiful to forget 

to rare to ignore

and can leave you lying,

head on the floor.

Remind me of promises that keep past the day

and the tides I willing let take me away.

Believe in me once from your heart let me touch

the dangers of loving a degree too much.

Keep To The Night

There is no rough draft.

No netting beneath the wobbling wire;

just the thoughts of a doppelganger

breathing on your shoulder.

Keep to the night with me

because it's not our choice who we love.

Angel chains in our remains,

looks like perfect circles from above.

I keep to the night with you

we are guardians,

 we are the truth.

Stop me before I chase the baiting tide.

As long as there is you

and I am there crafting paper tigers

the whisper with you, come the night

is a sparrow flying higher.

I know you are here. 

Catapult

Catapult me straight across the skyline
beyond starlight and atmosphere,
and the blur of buildings and lights.
The breathlessness of great heights
shoots adrenaline straight, no chaser,
to tear through me on a mission
through all the branches,
fueling a mind like a treehouse of veins.
It’s the place that carries me on
down the same old roads 
when it all goes wrong.

“Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, soldier.”
Bootstraps or the bullet;
the eventual mantra of the forsaken,
of a heavy mind
and shards of a heart shattered.
To mend the broken limbs,
being baptized by the southern wind
and reminded of treasures that actually matter.

So I inhabit and sculpt the night.
I am a keeper of charms and chains.
In dusky hours I outstretch wings
through the glowing Baltimore harbor I haunt.
I sing that old song about how
“you don’t always get what you want”.
I choreographed this dance
so trust I believe
and know the value of an honest love
and being what you need.