You've shown me eventually what you'll do

I don't know you through a smile and a "Hi"
It takes more then the cover of the book
To understand its' story

So, don't pretend like you know me
You don't even know yourself
Come back when you've found whomever makes your decisions

And don't judge me
One day, I'll be in your jury box
Holding a book cover, biting my tongue

Besides the point, it all comes full circle
And we've all been there before
Funny how easy we forget

Forget the bad when the good comes knocking
And the days turn into years
While others age in a day, some take forever

Aging outwards, growing stale as reality blurs by
Trying hard to pick out the familiar faces in the crowd
Time-lapse memory

So don't think for a moment that you know me
I am you
And you are lost

It will astound you

Looking back through the yellowed pages of yesterday
Walking down paths not traveled by myself for years
Old pictures soiled by the pains of Today
Close the book before Tomorrow stains it more

Close your eyes and look again; It's not stained
Time has played a trick on you
The places and faces are still there
You only need see them in a different light

Because eventually, you will grow bored and feel trapped
And the loom of humanity will make another pass
Tying one thread to another
Until it is all one again







Ciao

It's hard to hold a candle in the cold November rain

Song Of The Moment

Left the window open a crack
Never thinking it would rain
Reprimanded myself, when distanced from it
Sitting in front of it, it remains the same

The sound of the cars, swimming forward on the road
The only audience to my little play
Where I am center-stage, staring blankly
Forgot my lines again

And even though the rain comes in
The foul air inside is free to escape, should it wish
This is not the reason it remains open, however
Something deeper keeps me from closing it

Something that makes me keep old letters
Keeps me from deleting emails
Causes personality traits that seem alien to most
Protects those memories that I, alone, remember

Soon though, this will not prevent it from being shut
The cold needs to be kept out
Lock out the strangers and close the drapes
Nobody's home

I should've held on harder to my innocence...

Frigging right I'm starting over.
Clean slate, no hate
Been too long living with this grey skyed sight
May as well be blind

I've made enough mistakes in the past
To know when and where not to make them next time
I've learned, seen and lived
And now I just want amnesia

Blue skies & innocence can be found
You just need to bite your tongue
Insert a laugh when you can
And stop being stubbornly wrong

Open your damn eyes!
See what you're making?
No one wants that
So start over