Shadow Park

My shadow dances with me
While I dance alone
It goes where I go
I go where it goes
My shadow cries with me
While I cry alone
My shadow laughs with me
While I laugh alone
My shadow runs with me
While I run alone
Never alone
Either of us
The feeling of loneliness haunts us
As we walk in the shadow park
The moment is right
For now and forever
Just my shadow and I
Walking alone in the shadow park
My shadow fears my fears with me
While I fear my fears alone
My shadow dreams with me
While I dream alone
My shadow screams with me
While I scream alone
Just us two
Friends forever
The moment is just right
For now
But I have fallen in love with you
This is my job
I need to love by myself
Not with my shadow
I love you
Just me, all of me
My shadow walks with me
While I walk with you

Postcard

A square with a picture
That tells a story
Or secret
Crying out
Wanting the world to notice
That’s why
It arrives
Without an envelope
Trying to tell the truth
Or a lie
Telling a love story
Telling a story of a broken heart
Or a story of sadness
Or agony
A family that was once perfect
But now is ruined
Because of that affair
You never know where it has led the sender
Nor you will never know where it will lead you
Unless you take a chance
To see where it may lead
In that picture
That tells a story
Of either truth or lies
You decide
Take a trip
It’s now up to you
To send the next postcard

Simple Design

Exhaustion overflows the state of mind
Spinning out of control
Not knowing where to stop
Hating
Looking you in the eyes
Makes me sick
The leaves outside are restless
Just like my mind
My thoughts, my dreams
Don’t make sense
Being sad is a curse
Being happy makes you amazing
Being happy makes you perfect
Being sad makes you evil and unbalanced
The simple design of my mind
You will never know
Because it doesn't allow perfection
And all you are is perfect
So you will never know the simple design
Of my mind that holds
The answer to your investigation
That is top secret
Just like my design
I’m sorry you have no lead
You will just have to leave

To Be Known

Your divine elegance in your face’s expressions
Lays deep within me
Your unknown touch
Your unknown ways
Haunt me with each breath I take
I can’t help but love you
With each step I take
You don’t even know me
But I want to know you
You don’t know my laugh
But I want to laugh with you
You don’t know my smile
But I want to smile with you
Because your smile makes me feel alive
Your sweet face
Your sweet voice
You and I are the unknown
Hopefully for now
But I may just have to dream
Our secret love affair
Maybe you will fall in love with me
As I have with you

The Soldier In My Heart

The blood of a soldier
Seeks its journey
Through the crakes
Of the rough and dry land
Knowing it will be lost
Forever
The lost memory
Of those who walked there
With there combat boots
Digging into the ground
Making a shoe print
Not just any shoe print
But the one that got them killed
Because of the pointless trap
We should have seen
The war has just begun
The timeless beat
Of the weapons rounds
Ring in your ears
Making you double over in
Agony
Last one to survive
Last one to breath
Last one to love
Last one to kill
Last one to die
One round
One moment
One tear
One beat left
You fall to the floor
Lifeless
They say he died for his country
But he told me he died for me

The cemetery's thoughts

This is where we lay
Under the old oak tree
In the cemetery we lay
Dreaming and longing for this moment to never fade
In the cemetery we sat
Gazing into each others eyes
Longing to know what out future lies
Leaning against your broad chest
Being cautious not to break your weekend heart
We lay in that cemetery
Holding on to each other with all the strength we had left
Not letting go never, never were we to do so
Breathing cautiously and slowly
Sinking heavily into the winters snow
Descending into a word that we knew could end in any moment
Knowing your last breath was in your eyes


Your shaggy brown hair
Hid under your favorite hat
Your shy blue eyes
Hid behind the sadness of your tears
I remember one cold December day
You took me to the old frozen lake
Where you used to sit and wait
For your father to come home
But he never came
That one cold December day
We sat there together hoping for
Something to happen
We sat there for hours, waiting for a miracle to happen
That day your father came home
But knowing only to say goodbye
Your perfect white teeth were shown that day
Your smile warmed my heart
Your eyes showed the love for me
Was true
And your hand that held mine told me you were never going to let go


You died that winter
You were buried under that old oak tree
I sit here with my arms wrapped around me
Shielding me from the cold
I wondered to myself why that moment had to end so soon
You were my best friend
You mended my broken heart
You brushed away the tears on my cheek
These days I cant seem to find my way out of bed
You were all I had
“I’m going to find a way to be with you once again, I promise”
Your last words, your last promise
Embrace my heart
I lay under the old oak tree
Next to your grave for the last time
I close my eyes and find your hand
I hold onto it with the love and trust that I have for you
I open my eyes to find you lying next to me
Your perfect white smile
Your shaggy hair still hiding
And your shy blue eyes gazing into mine
At that moment I knew you had found a way
A way to be with me once again

Carved Orange Lilies

A wild escapade through the
Carved orange lilies
We will take
Shade and light
Dreamers and unbelievers
Paradise
The sublime coordinates
Vacancy of my mind
Fill with scarlet waves of joy
Winter emerges
Football fields hide beneath the
Sheltering snow
Awakened by your touch
Footprints patterned on the beach
Phantom lovers
Retrace their naked steps
That leaves a scar in time
A million dollar heartbreak
Seeking new patterns
A helpful hand to collect the tears
Needing the warmth of ones touch
My mind is stagnant form the lack of sleep
Awakened by the jagged edge of a irregular heart beat
Dislocating the pattern of the past
Molding the foundation for the future
Contouring the beginning of the slippery slope
Leaving the rest for uncalculated events
Time dances by
Bringing new wings to my heart
I see him through the complex eyepiece
Of a sniper scope