Dear Melancholy

Dear melancholy you bend near so often,you whisper pure, red dire poetry in my ear. You leave my nights forsaken of sleep and my lips unkissed. You dress yourself elegantly and always in black. Steal the color from my desire for your pretty dark glittered fire. You destroy my muse, transforming my shelter of thought to ashes. My steps I once chose with joy falter from my chosen path. You steal my laughter, seal my lips. You are a battle and some days I let you win. Nice soft darkness holds me too close, as the world becomes a clutter of wild noise. My words stall unpardoned and I become hidden in my silence. So I hide in my silence. Dear Melancholy I won't betray those that say they love me best, they will never guess, You and I are in an never ending war.

PROPHET AND POET

I made some peace with never will be
Shall I bless the prophet who puts the poet to sleep
Yesterday I'll visit no more
The prophet just slipped out my back door

Even the rain can't wash away

What the prophet won't let the poet say

One knock at the door changes everything

The prophet prays when the poet reigns

 

I surrender to the rain song that woke up my dream

I surrender to the pain that was born in my veins

Rock the baby, walk the floor

The prophet and poet are friends no more

 

No more knocking on doors that won't open

Tired of leaning on hope and chocking

No more songs so my hands can rest

The violin's silenced at the prophets request

 

I made some love with a ghost from the past

The prophet sleeps, sweet dreams at last

Time has came to set the poet free

We'll wake the music from its reverie

We can be who we want to be

Hush, don't wake the prophet

He makes the poet grieve

Puts his words to sleep

 

 

 



red is my rain

Oh rain you know me well/November drenched and May deceived/You faltered me, but no I'm not weak/ You think you know me if you call me by my name/ But you don't know the scars upon the scars in my heart/red is my rain/Oh dreams you know I do not sleep/ Show me all I want to keep/My darkest, deep discovery Bridge too far, river deep/Oh dreams do you know me Dear pain you know my name/You didn't hide, you're not vain /You were real, nightmare red/Red is my rain Red is my rain/Oh reality, you know too much/ Remember how I came from dust/You know the end, I'll have to wait /red, red love/red, red lust Oh despair, no you don't care/tied my hands with doubt and grief /You're not fair, that I believe despair, too well you know me