Tuesday, February 16, 2010

STAY WHEN THEY LEAVE

Indian summer day

Blackened out night

The games I play inside

To want the things I have not

And when I reach the destination

Somehow their value lost

Once upon a time

I could control myself


Got the news today

Of your passing

Your final call for help

So easy in my mind

To find that place

And to really let go

Hard to swallow that

You had the strength

To go through with it

And now here we all are

On the other side

Of the crash

Talking about how

We all knew your pain


Getting lost in my own mind today

So many different voices

Speak; all they at once

Tell me all day long

What they want

What they think I should do

Not even giving myself

A real chance to tell myself

What I really want to do


Just taking time away from you all

The garden again

How I missed your flowers

Sometimes I need to dig

Just to remember what it was

To dig

In the garden

My garden of shame

You keep me safe when they don’t

You stay when they leave

Even when the sun dies

You brighten my mind

My cemetery in time

My garden of blame

How I needed to walk

Through your isles today


The warm dirt on my feet

The chemistry of danger

At every door

Unleashing strangers

Manifesting escapes

Oh the soil still taste

The same


Indian summer day

Blackened out night

The games I play inside

To want the things I have not

And when I reach the destination

Somehow their value lost

Once upon a time

I couldn’t lose myself

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