West

Look at you and me I never thought we’d be

going broke on good coffee

Packed up all these bags and headed to the west

where the restless souls are free

or it’s a test for souls like me

who just reflect what we think we’ll see

I see you wore that jacket in front of all your friends

What you think they’re thinking now?

The queen you play on screen and stage ain’t just pretend

Do you think you took your bow?

Out west they’ll never raise a brow

At least I hear anyhow

And I wouldn’t trade you for them

Though it would be easier to bend

than break this day and say farewell

Looking at the needle’s slow and steady climb 

as the sides of the world become a mist

I never thought I’d need my slow and steady side

But you’re so hard to resist

And now I only clench this fist

Around this wheel that steers me west

No I wouldn’t trade you for them

Oh it would be easier to bend

But I’d rather break this day in your arms than say

Farewell

So we head west…

The Last Song

THE LAST SONG

There’s a locked theater in my house

Don’t ask about its history, I’m not sure

All I know is every night I’m on the other side of that door

There’s a torn up script on the floor of my heart

Don’t ask me why it’s a mystery

All I know is that I was born to play this part

The glacier between us shifted and I lost you to the melting snow

And since it’s the last song I just thought you should know

All the pretty things and the shitty things I have to say to you

The sun turned on everyone she knew

I watched her as she coldly fired the moon

These shifting times, what did we expect?

I’ve thrown my body onto the alter of it

Too many times to count the bruises

Always healing from one while dealing with the next

The tide between us shifted and I watched as you disappeared

And since it’s the last song I just thought you should hear

All the dressed up things and the messed up things I have to say to you

Threw it overboard just to see if it would float

Broke your song open just so I could count the notes

It sounded empty in my head rolling around like a ball

Your rests made me feel so small

I hope one day you stand back and see me

Outside of this pointillistic mess

And I never chose the speed of this light

But here we are bathed in all this bright

And if I could give you one piece of advice

I’d put it in the last song I’d ever sing to you

Sun

I could not sleep 

so I went to the sun 

found him and pulled him from his lilac sheets

don't you want me the way I want you?

Drape

The moon peeked out from behind a cloud today

And he never even saw it, because I am his curtain

Just hanging around covering light

Throw me open love

I'm just hanging around covering the night

I danced the fairy well but now I've danced my bones weak

I am not the breezy comfort you seek

But rather these days a drape

Upon which one day you will lay 

after that fight where you rip them from the window

Though he who knows me truly will know that I will never be a drape

And whatever shimmered light wants to pass 

I will lay down

And let it

Prism

Any day give me colored light to white

For I prefer to be bathed  in unsplit rainbow

And to that add my own sparkle

And try as I may 

creams beige and gray

Life turns at me like a prism

And I'll never turn away

Seasons

I am winter 

I come to you with all that is frozen in me

And need to melt

But first

I need your gentle spring

to thaw what once was green

And then

A warm May rain 

to bring to bud what beauty 

has been closed inside

And then your golden June light 

to let leaves, 

full of dew,

Dance away from petal 

of their own heavy drenched pliancy

And then I need your blue skies 

to sweetly lure the bloom

from beneath verdant crinolines

So yes, I need you 

But softly

And Slow like seasons

Stars

You are all stars in my sky.