Look ! There's an empty house but the lights are on.

Lay lines crossing this clock,
and intense colours upon this wall.
Wings here, and we'll fly.
A chair in the corner,
and a light.
To shine through the darkest nights
before your words soar like daggers
hunting my song.


And still I remain sitting by the fire,
care to join me ?

And there's more

The explosion,
The burst,
The shift,
I shift into instability.
Balance.
And there's crashing,
and chaos
and upheaval
and still an infinite serenity.
I've waited,
through the melody that
grasped me and sang,
"Don't you know what you're doing ?"

Overtime

Counted the days I forgot to feel,
and learnt of the nights I struggled to remember
how you look when you're not even near me.

Counted the days I forgot to listen,
and learnt of the nights I heard you whisper a stray line.

Counted, I counted, and I learnt that
from where you are,
I am a petal in the field,
I am a pearl in the trees.
And yet when the morning comes,
I have not changed.
I am still the grain in the desert,
and I am not the song in the wind,
but I am still the bud that may become your flower.

Nine Minutes

Could I bring you what you want ?
Could I change your mind ?
Or could I just let you be,
and maybe one day you'll wake up
and realise that I've been waiting here for so long,
waiting for you to wake up and hear me.
Maybe I could just let you be,
and just wait here beside you, waiting for nothing.
Waiting to remind myself of everything I couldn't give you,
a hope for.
Or maybe in these nine minutes I've realised that I need to wait for the sun to rise, before you really wake.

Note to Self

You're far from here,
could never really see through you
this clearly.

Closed windows
to the bluest seas I hope there are.
But I don't love you because,
I just do.

Unclasp your hands from my eyes,
and let me see, let me see who you really are.
Could you sing to me ?

Maybe one night, you'll fill it with your voice.
Maybe one night, I'll sing to you
and you'll have my heart in your hand
and you'll never let it go.

Unblinded

I lay here,
and you so far.
Will you take me there ?
To where the frost will thaw,
and to the beckoning water.
Clear this dry throat.

Rip this mask from the skin.
And reveal the light that's been waiting to shine.
Shine inside your eyes and,
please show me the light and,
this beside you and,
shine through the storm.

I still stand tall amidst the gloom.
And if I fall, I will hold on to this frayed rope.
And drown in light.

Disarray

Like blind arms in the darkest disarray,
And lost shadows, cold like the floor,
One solitary hope tries to slither away,
Oh, but vain ! there's no door.
No door, and no final surrender here.
The morning steals a broken glance,
Hidden in the sudden mask,
Appear, oh sudden mask,
will you chance your sudden exit too ?
My only hope, don't leave,
I need you, please, I need you.

In the face of solemn defeat,
And the soft sounds of loss,
There is an aching beat,
Aching for the smallest possibility.

Will you ever see beyond what I show you ?
Will you ever ?