I wear my heart on both sleeves.
And I feel them tying up into a noose.
I feel the swell, it swells, it is swelling.
I feel the sentiments fall, loose.

Umbilical Bind

Sew up my eyes
Shut the door and slip down the light
It must feel so right
To be big, bright, and everything
Posted at the corner of sidewalks

I want to find purpose for loose change
Not mindlessly rearrange
My tidings everyday
Just to feel the way
Material things feel

Just to memorize the lack of light
I look through brackish water
And wait to float to the top
But if I continue to drop
I'll cut the umbilical bind

As I wait, you say
"The world gets darker everyday
But you will change it"

Forget Me Not

Sun-dried skin
Forget-me-not eyes
We were timid in the garden
Pulling weeds from our mind
We chose the earth
Before each other
And chose to break
Before the crack
Of dawn

Freed from the see-through threat of the ice
We were telling lies
To everyone who'd listen
While the walls went white
And the dirt stayed black
Trifled and trampled

Three leaves on each clover
Now only two
I'm left with all the rest
I owe to you

Varnish

Entirely unapproachable
Reproached for giving too little
And showing too much

Soaked in turpentine
I am the thin afterthought
The child without mind
The solvent
Just slightly unprepared

Call me quick
Not nimble or swift
Just gliding through the blips

And if you're dying
Just let the trees fall limp again
And the leaves will coat my path
Until I laugh
Satisfied
Anesthetized
And cool