Leash

Oh that leash got me

And you suppose

I would be relieved

In a smaller box

Behind a taller fence

In which to create 

But oh how they'll tell stories

Of the lines I colored through

The fences I hopped

And the world I bore outside of the box

For now though

I sit

I stay

Steep

We steep each other in mantras

Like weak tea from strained leaves

Clutter Clatter Silly Chatter

Passed down promises of the limits of these lives

And somehow we decided

to stop expanding;

but rather on the Great Wednesday of the universe

we decided to dim the lanterns, 

turn back inward

go home

and live on the grit of these dwindling words

falling around us like paper bag leaves

steeping around us 

water to dust

One Man Raft

You're too busy surviving 

On your one man raft

To turn around and see your flailing love

Good for the gander

Noose for the goose

You left me like an ailing dove

When all I really wanted was to move into your heart

and make you a part of my standing ground

But you paddle on 

doing what's best for you 

And if it suits you 

perhaps turn around

And if in luck still hear a splashing sound

But only after your own safety's found

Emoticon

Wonderful body

I use to move my perspective forward

I don't even feel pounce per ounce

as legs run away

Above 

I float

In a happy face thought bubble

Emoticon

The con

for the complex beneath

And the life that gets itself

And lives beyond us

Greener Grass

Cause I see so many of them 

with greener grass stains on their knees

and all they gave up to please

I can't appease

I rather walk the dirt 

get called a tease

Because deep down she knew her red white and blue

was true

and must pursue it beyond the red and white bars

beyond the starstruck things they told her to do for fame

Since Aunt Sam went on the lamb

things just haven't been the same