EMPTY-HANDED The skull ring is not you But it is I'm tough I'm cool And by the way just for your information It's not for anyone else but me How is it not me not even a little I can pull it off no one

SUNLIGHT AND COFFEE Lose yourself in sunlight and coffee Postpone the day ahead Just for a little while just this once Close your eyes open your ears to the sounds of life Perfection be grateful for the

TRAIL OF TEARS Everyone is awesome every child is amazing Except me no one noticed the swift pencil strokes Hidden genius never to be uncovered or applauded And if for some strange reason you try to look

OUTRUN Sometimes I want to run forever Away from the noise pollution And those who don't listen Even away from my own thoughts That hurt and burn holes in my soul But the sun eventually sets If you wait

HEARTSONG Travel with me the length of a heartsong So close our bodies and our ideas embrace A blanket of sound and lights warm us As we move as one making no sound on the hardwood A spinning fixated gaze

NO THANK YOU The wind pushes on my chest telling me to wait and think first Before calling and pouring my heart out on the line left for hopeless romantics The sun blinds me like seeing stars after taking

DO I GET A RECEIPT FOR LOVING YOU Do I get a receipt for loving you for all the times you smiled thank you Seconds before when I knew it was coming and seconds after when you froze me My two favorite moments

IN THE BASEMENT Intrigue under covers and in closets especially in the basement Where closed boxes hold memories and secrets never to be revealed in the light of day Darkness and dampness fuse them together

YOU ARE You are a rubik's cube with stickers removed You are a thought that keeps happening You are a lotion that soothes my raw feelings You are a song too heavy for instruments You are a fading tattoo

SAFETY NET Safety net with holes so big to catch nothing Cast perfectly circling every one of your desires You get to watch it all slip away from your grasp But oddly feel at peace knowing the net exists

RISK FACTORS Once you step off that chair music begins the soundtrack of your life No going back to where the goodness was stroking your hair in the sunlight Muffled sounds of laughter through a wall or

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OUR BRAIN IS A THERMOSTAT Our brain is a thermostat that controls broken mood Dark colours mixed to create a deep black hole So endless that the decent feels like you are held by loving arms instead Of

MAZE OF LOSSES Delusional beliefs create the concrete foundation for your life Journal entries form the shapes and angles and hold the base in place We need help to navigate this maze of wins and losses

PERFECTLY IMBALANCED Creative resilience chemicals perfectly imbalanced Playing well with others as the clocks change Seasons mimic emotions giving in to desire Run away as your hair grows longer and days

PULLING AWAY Mental distress ideas crawling to the front of the mind Fragility cracking shattering dreams and relationships The scope of issues like the ocean lapping at the shore pulling away Pushing

IT IS WHAT IT IS The pain of wondering if your cluttered mind will spill over and ruin everything The guessing if who you believe you are is actually who you're meant to be The questioning if being creative

Still going to go with "Working Title". I'm starting to like it now. Emergency room Deja Vu Empath void, dosed with judgement, Afraid to go afraid to not Attended though reluctant. Reality's

BE HERE No film or memory cards or holding arms outstretched Looking through eyes rather than a lens that shrinks your life into nebulous pixels Both my hands are on you not fiddling with settings or shutters

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