Wake up kid you’re sleeping through the best part Wake up kid before you lose your heart Straight forward like suffocating And I tell myself I’m okay, with a smile on my face I am comfortable in this place, hoping at a steady pace But what good does that do? How my body feels is transparent But I have things to look forward to If you hear me I’m...Learn More

You lay down on the bed, hoping that sleep will come sooner than later And you try and you try to make sense of this voice in your head But you can’t explain the noise that’s rabid and constantly poised to suffocate your train of thought Now a train wreck in which you’ve been hopelessly caught So you guess it seems fit to panic And you formulate an...Learn More

Step into the house you could never stand and its obvious you had this planned: the flames that feed on small antiques and curtains Looking down all the rooms I pass, breathing and coughing on the ash that lines the tops of the windows that you’ve broken And though you don’t move in what you made, your pulse is giving you away Standing with a gun,...Learn More

Cuts won't make you feel or will they? Cuts will only make you bleed Blood feels so real when nothing else does Scarring petals won’t heal in the dark, curtained in silence and long sleeves Pills won't make you feel or will they? Pills will only make you sick Dead flowers open towards each other Sleeping under falling chandeliers, with eyes...Learn More

Maybe you should eat or get some rest because you have looked better So much better I’ll set the bells and strings to chime and ring so you can feel better A bit We see it in your posture and your face The slow unshifting stance The quiet countenance Lift your head out of your hands and see that no one want you in any misery Don’t get so wound up...Learn More

You can hide reality with bracelets Breathing just to watch the scenery Sand him down until he’s lost his senses, like a piece of bent machinery Do you hear it falling apart? Should we try to keep it quiet? In a plane with paper wings, crashing passengers that sleep Wear a silent smile in a crowded room Only on the outside of a dream Start the car...Learn More

It’s been three hours of trying, but your phone is off or I can’t get through And Joe’s television can’t steal my thoughts away from you My friends say not to worry You’re probably sleeping, and I should do the same Then Emma calls to wake me up, and says that I need to come fast You must have snuck the alcohol by, and you’re not doing so...Learn More

We hold each other by thinning threads that knot at the center and break at the ends These strings that strangle an empty chest with a slow rotation for a world at rest A warm addiction, wound in these threads In this stale repetition, do you wish you were dead? The cords won’t break and I’m not this weak The chords resonate to hide what...Learn More

Picturing short scenes of you standing next to a window and saying you’re six stories from feeling okay Don’t jump out like you’re about to We’re considered healthy kids Tell me I won’t be like this when I’m older Watching the air catch on fire Don’t look so dead This is all in my head My body does not breathe through wires Rocking back and forth...Learn More

Under a sky of broken lights that wilt and weep, we dance and spin like ornaments so fast asleep The air is a quiet current pulling us from side to side Our shadows follow us in step across the checkered tile Let this be not what it seems, like the times we dreamed How they echo so soundly A wistful hum resounds through patient cracks that line the...Learn More