He said, She said

He said - you are so fair, so nice
That my body is yours for free
If you will hold my soul for me
She said - I ain't falling for your lies
I know that every body has it's price
And I know that yours is not for me

And so they stood in the sunlight
Their longing ebbing in the fading light
Their eyes said every word
That their hands did not dare
When he reached out for her mind
He found only her breasts were bare

He said - Would you hold me for long
Would you hold me if I were wrong
She said - I would if I could
But I really don't want to belong
I mean - don't get me wrong
But I'd really rather be owned
For the shape of my body
Than the state of my soul

And so they made love in the light
And left the darkness inside
To be alone with the night
That lay behind their eyes
She said that that was great
He said he was getting late
And they went their separate ways

Untouched by the unsaid things
Their sanity lay on broken wings
That they did not care to heal
What's not said you did not feel

He said sometimes it's better not to fly
She said that's right, let's just let things lie
I prefer to be safe on the ground
To being a bird in flight
It was the first time, they found
That they'd agreed that night

They made up with their tongues
For each song they'd left unsung
Then he said ciao
And she said goodbye
And they left each other
Standing in the light
Knowing in the end
That she was right
That every body has a price
That they'd paid it with their lives.

Revenge

The night is cold
Cold as your smile
The day you stole
The light from my eyes

The lies you told
With practised sighs

To the tune of goodbye's

The days are warm
Warm as your thighs
When you welcomed me in
With soft mewling cries

But the nights tell the truth
They say what's inside
Yet we pursue the day
Without a disguise

One day I'll be warm
When your day has died
As you shiver in your storm
I'll pass smiling by

Our paths will then cross
And coldly I'll smile
The day that you've lost
The light in your eyes

To lies that were told
With practised sighs

To the tune of goodbyes

the sweetness of pain

writhing

in the sweetness of pain

silences growing

in vain

broken bodies

impaled

on sweet torture

we lie awake

dreaming

half mad with desire

for the lost

causes of the heart

we’ve played our parts

the music ends

before it begins

again

Would you

Do you live
On borrowed thoughts
Or borrowed dreams
Does your real self speak
In only quiet screams

Do you watch too hard
Do you see too much
Do you find that you spoil
Everything that you touch

Do the words out of your mouth
Come from books that you've read
Has every thing you believed
Been stuffed into your head

Does every answer you find
Come from someone else's mind
Are you too scared to heal
To find what you really feel

Do you mistrust yourself
Do you doubt all you do
Do you suspect yourself
And find things askew

Would it matter very much
If I tried to help you find
That you could trust your body
That you could trust your mind

Would you push me away
And scream out songs of hate
Would you rip and revile me
Would you say that it's too late

Would you repel and fear me
If I wanted to get through
If my fingers trailed compassion
Would your world come all unglued

Would it matter very much
If I tried to help you find
That you can trust your body
That you can trust your mind

Electric

Her hand reaches out for mine
Her long slender fingers clasping
Palms scraping
Her flesh squeezes mine
More intimate than a kiss
Are your hands, my love
I think, with a shiver of glee
That races up the nerves
From my palm
The quiver takes my spine
And shakes it like a leaf
In the laughing wind
The touch of her palm
Reaches my eyes
A teardrop lies
Unclaimed
Behind the lid
As behind that again
Within the dark depths of my skull
A brain stands still
As lightning flies
Each synapse fries
In a sudden declaration of love.

Around the eyes

Around the eyes
Crinkled skin
Shining lights dancing
On the pupils within
What else is there
What else is there

The people walk
The people work
Faces set in stone
They walk alone
Searching for glee
Buying love for free

Chase the big things
Be led by the nose
Around the circus ring
Chase highs and lows
Live life on a dose
Stress and adrenaline

But in the corner there
Sits the man who doesn't care
He's not lost in worry
For forgotten sins
He's caught in the moment
His world is a grin

Around his eyes
Crinkled skin
Shining lights dancing
From the pupils within
For what else is there
What else is there...

Half Past Twilight

It's half past twilight
The ancient one squats
In the smoggy half light
Of that hole in the wall
That the purveyors of concrete
Call a window

His mind lingers
Around nothing at all
In a faraway place
He sometimes calls home;
His mind meandering
Around half thoughts...

Rising from his lips,
Seeking out both
The open lighted spaces
And the darker spaces
Within, he exhales
His memories
And his hopes
Mingled together
In the smoke
Of burning dreams
And burning schemes
The mise-en-scène
Of a life consumed
Lived half past twilight
In a place called home.

New Year

And so it ends...
That year is gone
Those pages torn
Rift by the ravages of time
Those paths we walked
The dreams we stocked
And fearfully chose to decline
We've left that world behind
And but for memories
All the lives we lived
Lie lost around the bend
And so it ends...

But now time is new
And things begin again
With lingering kisses
To soothe and mend
The wounds opened by the past
As things have died
New things will arise
Some must awake with a start
To live new lives
With shining eyes
And a newly indestructible heart