Mermaid crooning In antiques, a light shimmers The shore's cold shoulders Graced by the suns beams Glistening daydream In which the hills beyond embrace the sky Shallow water at my feet I cannot stand any taller for you It means more than you know But you'll never know It means more than you know And you stood there the whole time Another...Learn More

You collected relics that enraptured light into the world That plastic now sits behind glass, caked in dust while your light dims Your mind wilted as each season passed Each waking morning must have felt like a new death Traded your home for walls to keep you safe; we said its for the best It's always for the best And sometimes in between blank...Learn More

March your crooked feet up hills toward the highlands Row your broken ship up stream forever You won't find the light in him Your crooked soul ignites my path March your crooked feet forever Lights on your sloop shine blue Hues Pink shadow's reign of terror Hearing your calls bleeds me Dried tears no longer hold me down I hope you're nothing...Learn More

A serpent's head tilts back Pantomiming how we move Blue waves crash around me You and I stand still And we break the fuchsia And we break the fuchsia Blue and pink mix at my heels You and red mix at my heels The endless march in my breast You are the newest portrait The endless march at my feet Swallow me whole, Atlantic Whole This cold...Learn More

Sewing seeds to suffocate myself Desperate roots in thick soil You make me not want to wake up I'm exhausted and tomorrow's still coming Swept out to sea by cyan flowers And still the sun will rise on high Purple seed, petals burnt Flowers freeze Staring blankly over waves of desperate hues And moving on seems like a curse Windswept callouses...Learn More

Brightly burning; an essence of joy Humor bled through the teeth of your spirit The laughter of Psalms poured into your shadow Reserve bled through the teeth of your spirit There was a small barn cowering away from the sun under elder trees There was a path forged through the budding grass You found God in that house. You found peace in its...Learn More

These souls came to Earth in tact, mesmerized in the lushness of youth I never drank from the fountain You never grew in my garden Tell me what it's like in Birmingham. Do the streets wind like the roads in the mountains? Do the feral spirits still run from your touch? Please write me one day. I hope the leaves grow greener Please write me one...Learn More

Heaven feels a lot more like hell Bringing me closer to church bells It burns It burns like heaven It hurts It hurts like heaven It burns It burns like heaven It hurts It hurts like heaven Cloudy eyes see rising smoke Blue skies clouded by endless gray Why can't I make it go away? Why can't I take it all away? It burns It burns like heaven It...Learn More

Poison in the wells Rivers keep me calm, quiet flood Hemlock grows by your shoreline Thistles tied around my throat Apathy, apathetic Your red tinted lamps are blinding Blue shades grant me hope The heavens only grow deeper indigo The heavens only grow deeper indigo Let the worst thoughts in The ground feels softer than your bed Let the worst...Learn More

Not much time passed before we were chanting waiting room prayers We begged the heavens to have mercy on your soul No one had the courage to sing songs of joy No one had the courage to sing songs of praise If we had your heart, we'd sing of streets of gold and golden bells I felt sorry that I felt sorry for myself You didn't die all alone Cloudy...Learn More

Shielded from God, I can do nothing as my memories fade Everything is blurring to a hazy shade of gray and bleeding from my eyes Lord, bless my soul as the rotting swallows my limbs and chews my mind to pulp It will not matter once I forget the ones whom I loved who nurse me as their patient There is nothing that anyone could do...Learn More

Your body wrinkles into green dust as each passing anxious moment recoils your spirit. And in your home, you wilt like wildflowers I ponder a simple life I ponder I ponder a simple life I ponder and note what could have been No word in my ancestral tongue can describe the calmness of withering age. But through simple lives, we feel it on every...Learn More