'Til Kingdom Come

Lover
I fell into a hole
Then made a ladder
Out of these gnarled tree roots
Tangled together
I didn’t stop there no
Now reaching higher
I built you a castle
With brick and mortar
I thought you’d show me how
Kingdom comes sooner
But our walls crumble down
Bridges burn after
Lover
I’m only a builder
Lover
Not much of a ruler.

Captivate Me

And with whatever words

I have left to say

Planted and buried here

At the end of days

Under the summer sun

The words become ripe

A harvest but for few

The words turn out right

Captivate me again

Before days become weeks

Cause when autumn arrives

The words turn bittersweet.

(Intermission)

I don’t write to you much these days
So busy with school
I’m at a loss of what words to say
Still I tend to stay

So honey tell me a story
All about you now
When you’re ready I’ll be waiting
To write it all down

Over and over…

Cause I’ve been trying
Chasing something I felt missing
Is it all fiction?
Is there some truth to the meaning?

I think love
Is what I want, it’s what I want
It's what I need

But these poems
Take too much ink, make papers bleed
To write my dreams.

Mr. Spaceman / Below Average / Unusual End

Mr. Spaceman

Lying underneath an oak tree
I see a diamond canopy
Call me Mr. Spaceman
Cause I’m taking a star home with me

I want the brightest to shine down
All the way through the atmosphere
Don’t be a shooting star
Cause they’ve disappeared on me before

Not as beautiful
As I might’ve remembered this
My old stars black out
Their memories aren’t ever missed

Not as different
As I imagined it being
I’ve got some bad thoughts
But I stitch together the broken parts
And the fabric of my heart keeps beating

Lying underneath an oak tree
Now these stars shower down on me
Call me Mr. Spaceman
Cause I uncover the night for day
Call me Mr. Spaceman
Cause the brightest star still leads the way.


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Below Average

Well these are your good days
But don’t waste them away
GPAs manifest regret
It’s superficial anyway

And if you could turn time
Would you then tune your mind
Call on him, Ghost of Christmas Past
Relieve yourself of restless nights

Well settle down now, you’re back now
These memories deserve at most a frown
Ghost of Christmas Future please show
The shine of light that will follow you home.


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Unusual End

Have I been so filled up with empty
That my body loses density
Tell me doctor what am I to do
When this heavy heart breaks my bones through

If I die this heart lies there buried
In the soil it’ll stay in pieces
Sedimentation will take course soon
Then my heart becomes the seed that’ll bloom

But is there anybody who can save me
Because this end is a little too dreary
If only she could coat my insides with love
Then maybe my body would be strong enough.

Summer's End

Carrie,
The weather spilled out gray
On this summer day and
Seasons
Turn the trees around
Throwing their leaves to the ground
I’m walking on the remains

Carrie,
I have this winter chill
That cools all my veins and
Freezes
But it’s still inside
The fire that thaws in time
Making puddles in the streets

Carrie,
Overcast afternoons
Bring out the brightest moons
Shining
Down on these dark things
That road isn’t so daunting
As I once remembered it.

The Neighborhood

The neighborhood keeps an eye on me
Because I’m not the profile
And I won’t adapt easily
Everybody step aside
As I reveal my disguise

So take this photo
Send it to your wife
This is what a real person looks like
Inside the bubble
Looking out towards life
Are colors more vivid than just white

But it’s not her fault
That she lost the fight
As a child growing up in the neighborhood and

The neighborhood keeps an eye on me
Because I bring the changes that
Mark the fallout from history
Everybody step aside
As I break these replayed nights

So learn this lesson
Make it memory
Replacing thoughts that are so empty
If you would listen
Then I’d be happy
Since you don't define the world for me

But I’m not from the neighborhood and
You don’t understand me like you should.

Cars

So turn the night
And spark the sun
I wake up to the tune of birds
A million melodies
Igniting out as one

And I rush
Curse these lights
Such are the swerves and curves of left and right

Cross this heart
Hope on drive
That where I’m going to will soon arrive

Through the city streets and saltwater seas
I captured a sunny piece of summer
Painted pink with the taste of strawberries

All the way from the city of angels
With half a tank and an infinite road
But it’s just a matter of time you know

Before I come back to you
Before my heart returns home.