When everything that collects in the mind begins to spill over, then it is time to share. Avid reader, lover of all entertainment, full of opinions and willing to share. Creative writings: essays, poetry, short fiction and tidbits of larger works.
Friday, December 25, 2015
Winter: Finale (There Really Is No End in Sight)
I guess this is my way of coping when things get tough
You might ask me if I'd be willing to go through it all again
My answer is yes and winter for us will never really end
Graceful or graceless I'll keep trying to make a smile appear like magic on your face
Silly words or silly actions I'll trip over myself trying so hard but I know you'll pick me up
Late night adventures or jokes aside in quiet, this is where I want to be
I hope that the cold actually sticks around, that way you can steal my heat
There's so much I want to say but my tongue is tied and I'll whisper
Shy guy till the end, so I'll hope my written tries make sense despite my jumbled mind in wait
Not sure where my fate leads or what my future holds but to hell with it
I want to say in now forever, where I will find you each and every time
Gut feeling and sure of absolutely everything, you won't find me laying awake
Definitely choosing you over the rest time and time again
While I existed in existential crisis, you fell into my lap
Not some sort of sappy attempt to win your heart
But I want you to love me for me, not some sort of creation
Let this pledge be a promise in your heart, in your eyes:
I know this winter will end and I will see you on the other side
but I will keep you close to me to make sure, as winter becomes spring.
Friday, December 18, 2015
Winter Part 4
Winter: Daybreak
The new lights to know why you shout out your love in full
Bright nights, what you want, I will sing and claim my hope
Oh, lover, what it is to wake beside loving eyes full and alive
Your touch, your love more than ever
Oh, lover, oh, lover, you are the newest snow on winter's eve
Smile and nip at my chapped lips, pull and tug at my sleeve
With your strength
Oh, lover, I will see the daybreak by your side
Winter: Lights
One more for the chilly nights that make us dress warm
When the sun sets and the cold comes in we will light up the dark
Strolls in winter, time by this frozen pond
An amount of joy in drunken stupor
I would love to live this moment on repeat
Jingle bells and carols to mark the occasion
A kiss in the dark with the glow of distant lights
I will stand this cold for another moment
I will every time
Winter Part 3
Winter: First Fall
The light shines down on the first fall
The imprint to you left all along the way
A memory burned in ice
Shows the way you've wavered
But you found your way back
To her arms, to her strength
That first feeling of energy
To and from better days
That second wind of confidence
To warmth from cold
That fear will lessen with her love
Hard to know it's time
We want to know what's better
A moment where we won't question
If the snow will ever start to fall
Or continue on forever
Winter: Warmth
This is a song for winter
To keep a status quo between us
A place of neutrality to stand
Keep the peace and make calls
On whether we will see it to the end
There's no fallen snow to see
No time left to call it out
A winter's bark but no bite
When I told you I loved you
You smiled and returned it to me
We will survive this cold
Your hand in mine every night
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Winter Part 2
Winter: Reminiscence
On occasion I let those thought flow by
Those that tell me I'll never see you again
Despite my strength, despite my heart
I feel that need to lay and die
Moments where I know my time with you
A blimp in comparison to years learned
I just want that to be us, maybe more
Than a couple months time in memory
All the things, all the thoughts, all the memories
I want to be your nostalgia that you look back
And smile, thinking of me in better light
But I don't want to be lost in your heart
Hold onto the thought that I am what you want
A man jaded, but still standing after it all
Wanting nothing more than to be by your side
A love that is new and scary but worth the effort
In the end I hope you find what makes you happy
I want you to smile even if it's not because of me
That when you cry that they would be wiped away
A beautiful soul that should never feel this hurt
Winter: Nights
My mind is my worst enemy in this scenario
Late nights laying awake with fear I won't see you again
My words like echoes in the halls of where we wandered
Struggling with self doubt and uncertainty, I'm scared tonight
I wish for a chance to show you what I'm worth
However little I am still wanting you to remember
Better days will with smiles, nights with whispers
My heart poured out into winter's cold
Shield me from your hurt so it won't spread
I'm waiting on your words to know I haven't left your thoughts
I want to carry that weight so you can see the daylight
My time won't stack up as against the past but...
I wish for a chance to see what years will bear
My love is something I won't give so freely
But I miss you now, only a day in, it's sort of sad
I want to feel that hurt, I want to know it well
To say I'm yours, I would give it all
To sleep through these cold nights
I'd give up my head and the words within
Just to say I had a chance to know you more
Monday, December 7, 2015
Winter (I'm doing this for you) Part 1
Three days in the new winter and still I want more
To sleep forever beside you, I keep my hopes up despite fear
You make me want to sing, even though I'm tone deaf
The way you kiss me neck is how I disarm
The way your eyes still see the real me
When you say I love you, I hear the joy and fear
The first day of the new week and I'm scare more than before
That our last nights have gone, I feel the weight of time
Till I see you again, I'll still whisper my love
Winter: Solace
Been through the muck a hundred times
And felt like drowning once or twice
A heart use to uncertainties in between
But I've never given up, still fighting
I still rise to the occasion and fall right beneath
With high hopes that a journey does eventually end
I never asked for more
To end this uphill war
Where my knees have bruised
Just so I won't hear I lose
Until I run out of things to do
I'll still struggle to hear "I love you"
Stared at others in lover's bliss
Awe struck with envy and sick
Their smiles and the laughter built
Wishing I could feel that one day
I still do my damned best, I always will
With high hopes that a journey does eventually end
I never asked for more
To end this uphill war
Where my chest is beaten in
Just so I know that I will win
A love that you hold for me in your heart
Just waiting for this whole thing to start
I miss you now
Even before you wake
Waiting on your call
To say I'm yours
So here's my chance
To show you meant more
Than any words I could bear
So I can lay here till dawn
And stay sleeping with you
till the winter is over
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Hope(Less)
It's bled out one too many times
There's a place where I have gone before
And I fear it's come back for the worst
That place where hopelessness calls home
Well there's been a happiness that came to me
One I thought I was certain would stick
You were mine for such a short time
Then you were taken away before the start
Someone who didn't make me shudder
Well there's a thought that has crossed my mind
To let myself die and become someone else
Then maybe the nights wouldn't seem so long
With hope that I won't remember who I was
But hope is a hard thing to have faith in these days