holding out holding up the sky my arms being to ache and still I search the stars seek the heavens that await beyond the deep touching darkness velvet-petaled and rooted in my slumbers is it to be found in reality or is the glassy night merely a fading escape in the madness seeping through the purities I long for out into a tangible flesh a taste or a fleeting swift-pawed thought leaping between worlds

stormy night
swirling clouds reflect the thoughts
floating through my head
After a brief encounter
we step out into the warmth
of a summer night
and whisper under our words
inaudible
flying down a hill
twisting, twirling, bumping
a spinning mess of night
wind
as we walk the dark path
with only you to guide me
you warn me of the dangers
still I am unafraid
somehow trusting
suddenly the water
clouds bearing down
waves crashing, sweeping
tugging at my feet
threatening to knock me down
lights in the distance
do not break the heaviness of night
I stand waiting, humming
afraid to go in but afraid not to
I try
but I can't
everything else is quite enough
too much
for me
try again
swirling, rising
water seeps in
cold
but not as cold as the light
that does not come
not a quiet night, by any means
but all the better
silence returns
only the wind remains
as we return to reality
walking back
the stones, sticks on the path not as painful this time
not as new
thoughts,
like the clouds,
not cleared,
but not as ominous
in perspective now
I suppose

teardrops falling
faraway voices
from a different time
when it was all so simple
nothing mattered
quite as much as it does now
I can hear the laughter
echoing in my ears
the little time we had
was it wasted
the picture fades
and I realize
we'll never be the same
I can't stand on my own
can't see past today
tomorrow is too much
why do we have to say goodbye?

It's funny
how much the little things can mean
just the way you say something
a certain look in your eyes
sets the world right
my world
just a little place
of little things
when you call me that
when you catch my eye
and smile that way
over some private joke
unknown to the world
I just know
this cannot be taken away
it's ours forever
no matter what