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it’s hard to describe how i feel when we’re together
the truth in her eyes and her long black hair
perhaps the only thing that matters more than her
is the oxygen that sustains me as i draw in air
and yet when our lips touch and match each other’s
i feel like i could give up breathing altogether
perhaps it’s […]

rise
hiss
the air becomes moist
dark becomes light
under the hot steel’s might
creases are annihilated
and the shirt is ready to face the world once again

chasing that blue horizon beyond
waking up each morning with a goal
never having to stifle a yawn
knowing you’ve got something to show
looking forward to that post-rain rainbow
never fearing the cold wet precipitation
awaiting dawn’s return and it’s warm glow
night brings nothing but joyful anticipation
we’re always seeking happiness
in one form or another we’re the same
and we’ll reach that […]

When I look at the photograph above, I remember. Was it so long ago? I might have been there just yesterday, or perhaps never. Time seems so distorted, and perhaps it’s better to forget, what once was will never be again, and to pine for it just results in impossible melancholy.

and so
grow
each day
you stay
results in
a sin
as you fence yourself within

and they tell me i’m a dreamer
always believing in ideals so true
how’d i ever come to think
that men were anything but fools
there’s no place for courage
no room for loyalty
we’re nothing but savage
in this world so faulty
love’s just a device
to justify one’s selfishness
hope’s just a illusion
to sooth one’s failures
but i know as well as you do
it’s […]