i've stood tall in the wake of your changes and sketched your outline from start to finish. it follows me like a shadow, dripping ink, slithering serpents into the deepest depths of my mind. but regret is hard to find. i did what i had to but obligation isn't a synonym for forgiveness ( Read more... )

dreamer retired, and realist abroad.
these fantasies crumple between my fingers, into waste bins. not unlike crinkled paper.
you were my only friend, but now you're one of many [enemies, that is].
i hold no regrets, but instead take bets on the loser.
out with the old and in with the new; i've got two faces for both.

i will weigh you down worse than the guilt.
this ship was built for stormy waters.
catastrophe steps leave marks in the cement.
i dream in monochrome. i am a disaster.
i think in x's and o's. i am a disaster.we try to be, or aim to be. whichever you prefer ( Read more... )

In the mail, mid-day, cold winter, I received a letter ( Read more... )

on velvet nights i dream that i am sinking ( Read more... )

too close for discomfort, like the dreams you grip.
come home to a new door of opportunity.
continuing like never before. on another level.
and that was all we wrote.

I've got an award-winning story behind my eyes, of sterile halls and compromise ( Read more... )

selling my soul with another's words on my lips.
we'll make the greatest history they've ever seen.
holding close your alabies; they lace.
like fingers, or more like bodies under the sheets.

it's more like melancholy, less like misery.
i am the leader of this hopeless generation.

Reel in the sunken ships and glitter-glammer your eager hips.
Can I buy you a drink? Your heartache, or mine?
Copyright infringement of the very worst kind;
Where your pity is stolen and placed on display.
Hold me and swear like I was your grave.

Hold your stomach and take a breath and hold my heart up like it's a souvenier.

Down the rabbit hole we go, and come up knee deep in dead sparrows ( Read more... )