Between Words

She stabs her pen into the clouds
Bleeds grey into the straying shrouds
She sews words together with charcoal thread
Outlines the world in pencil lead

Raindrops sputter, dot the page
Smudge ink into an angsty rage
She tilts her head back to touch the sky
And blows the earth a kiss goodbye

Fairy Dust

Night skies embroidered into a skillful tangle
Voices sink, smooth as satin
Above the stars that dare to dangle
In rhythm with the tune of latin

The broken breeze breaks love apart
To assist them in their dying dance
And slow, they sync in a silent art
Until the morning numbs their trance

As flames scorch the break of dawn
And turn time into golden rust
Outlining the blades of a lonely lawn
Are the remains of fairy dust

Battle Cries

Hear, hear the battle cries
Beneath the empty, endless skies
Tears bleed red into the ground
Staining buried hope unfound
Souls streaked with sunken scars
Tracing the outline of fallen stars
That so long ago, once hung high
Taught the children how to fly

Hear, hear the battle cries
In a world shrouded in clouded lies
Starving children – collateral damage
Hungry in the hands of soulless savage
See, the child lying in the gutter
Another casualty of war, we utter
Lying in a wishful wait
Of the few that fight their fate

Hear, hear the battle cries
See the world through open eyes
Armed with all their hearts can afford
Broken in spirit, broken in sword
Blindly, they charge into the battlefield
With their body numbed; minds steeled
Still they cry, amidst the violence
Yet we sit still in a soundless silence

Does it?

Does the world revolve around today
Does time collapse and fade away
Is life an endless depth we drown ourselves in?

Are we forced to live each day the same
Is time the taunt of an endless game
That nobody ever seems to win?

Is our world composed of the world itself
Or are we waiting, wanting something else
Are we really here on earth to stay?

Faraway

Chasing lies and butterflies
So far away
She looks up into the empty skies
Where dreams once lay
With another day to rise
The sun sets on her sorrow
As time testifies of lies
Her heart is set on tomorrow
Placing hope in hope that dies
Waiting, come what may
The love behind a stranger's eyes
So far away

Reminiscence

The violent vandals of the past
Engrave time into an iron cast
Revolves around timeless stains
Graffitied scars of empty pains
They haunt her into lonely dreams
Crippled cries and strangled screams
Yet her world is bare of sound
Stilled, she waits, to be found

What Is Love?

Love is the face of a fallen angel
The breaking breath of a newborn child
In the fragile lace of a wedding dress
And the moment the morning sun smiled

I Smell The Rain

It taints the breeze from a cloud away
It darkens the skies and dulls the day
Submerges earth into an ethereal trance
The skies are spun into a violent dance

It breaks the blue and soothes the sun
It falls the world into a stun
The early breath of morning's wake
Brings the hues the solemn clouds forsake

Stained Glass Windows

Shattered glass stained
Into a perfect picture
Coloured pieces paned
Painted into the future

They blend into a fantasy
Of an artist's impression
The drained dream of reality
A beautiful confession

We taint our hearts with
Open lies, darkened shadows
Still we stare through
Our stained glass windows

Lies

A kiss laced with poison
A stencil traced horizon
The beauty of disguise
Is another word for 'lies'

Heart In Hand

They keep playing those lullabies
That she'll never understand
She faces every waking day
With her heart in hand

Disguised as love at first sight
Was a thief in the day
It doesn't take her by surprise
But it takes her breath away

Eeach heartbeat tempts her to
Abandon her will to survive
Twisted irony in the knowing
It's what's keeping her alive

She bleeds tears of scarlet
That dissolve into debt
She wills for the moments
For the time that she's wept

They keep playing those lullabies
That she'll never comprehend
She looks up to the endless skies
Wonders if it'll ever end

In One Moment

She laughs.

The sun in her smile,
Stars in her eyes,
Linger a while,
Then return to the skies.

In one moment the sun disappeared
And the stars failed to grace the sky
In one moment only silence is heard
As they watched their only light die

Sun in her smile, stars in her eyes,
Blinded to their silent cries

One Seat

One seat on the bus
One seat in election
One voice amidst
One human section

Romeo and Juliet

When Romeo saw her across the floor
Was it love at first sight or another closed door
That forbade him through

When Juliet stood from the balcony
What made her fall, true love or gravity
Into a distant lullaby

When Romeo gently took her breath
Did he know he'd sung her into her death
Or blithely refused to believe it true

When Juliet whispered 'death do us part'
Didn't she know he already had her heart
He wasn't the first one to die

When Romeo saw her, pale as dead
He gave his soul to take her stead
It was no longer his to give

When Juliet saw her lover dead by knife
Who had all of her, except her life
And with him false will to live

Was there ever a tale of such woe
As of Juliet and her Romeo?