Another year of lost pace
In a new kind of stagnance

No lumens left to show
No light no hope
To hold back the water
And those who possess means
To stem the tide
Deny their imprimatur

All of the scaffolding
Superimposed
No wonder we are still
Ineffectual

All of the scaffolding
Superimposed
And all of this is not
Sustainable

In contrary

Explosions will fill the sky
They continue to deny
They chose not to see
Those devoid of free agency

In contrary the world is a cold dark place
Humanity will wash itself away

Superimposed
No hope

Make your paces on the tracks
The berth no shelter
Dodge the car lights heading back
A desperate evasion

Tie walk

The floorboards never were thick enough
At what point had you given up

Tie walk

And at what point did I chose to leave
I never got to make that apology
And the floor boards were never thick enough
And you never would disclose

Run away

So make your paces on the tracks
And dodge the car lights heading back
Wade through the street lights wasting time
Running fingers tracing power lines

Run away just like you always do
Just like you were taught to

When the runoff takes
Blood 'cross the fields
Which shelter's claimed

Thin blood runs bright orange
Soil sun-dried forlorn
This binary cathode
In time will erode

Which burrows are we to hide
When a black sun is allowed to shine
Erode

All shall receive
According to need
We dance in silence
Monotonous beat
All shall receive
According to need

All shall receive
According to need
How much more of our lives must we limit
When theres no question of means
All shall receive
According to need
We dance around the droning silence
To a monotonous beat
All shall receive
According to need
Is it right to determine a life's worth
Through productivity?
All shall receive
According to need

Stride after stride
Just as mine
Further from you
Just as a tomb

Stride after stride
Just as mine
Further from you
Like wise a womb

Empty void in the sky
It comes in waves at night
Where were your arms outstretched
Weren't you supposed to catch

Voices muted lungs press
Inconsequential empty breath
Hope to find some source of depth
In the darkness nothing coalesced

It comes in waves
Chest pulsate
In a new kind of solitude I lay

Where was god
When you needed him the most
Where was god
Why'd he call you back to your post

Warm Breath and fingertips
Misgive
Racing droplets on course to the
Windowsill

I hope these words
Will cut you soft
And form a conduit
Direct outfall

Cut soft
Outfall

And I swear by tomorrow I'll check in
But don't count the seconds
And I know I missed your call
Just another night in a city I've already been

So gift me your breath
I'll give you mine
If yours is pantomime
So gift me an exhale
I'll give you mine
If yours is pantomime

Cut Soft
Exhale
Cut Soft
Monolith

Arbitrary lines
The sum of life
Shrinks with time
A second death denied

But I fear the ink in this pen will never dry

And I'll write the same poetry
Some letters you'll never read
To no reprieve
And I'll check the calendar days
Remember the words you'd say
I hope you believe

Delft blue and picture frames
Outlines are all that remains
And a space on the cabinet
With the Dalecarlian
And in a faux refrain
No resolution to gain
And when I lie awake
Attempting to relay

I will always remember
Those last few ounces of pressure
Now I'm alone
And you're just five pounds of carbon
A vacant hospital room to pack
They'll need this bed cleared when I get back

I can't remember
If I apologized
I'd assume not
As you taught
I just avert my eyes

Now it's December here
I guess I'll write you in another year
And I hope he sends his regards too
'cause the house doesn't hold
Much more of you

A safe space
A quiet place
Artificial bouquet
In a closet display
A safe space
A quiet place
A cerulean vase
An extended stay

He approached that Sunday and said
He was able to reconnect with some of your old friends
Offered him a position with them
I know that would make you content
Hopefully in some way
You can still hear him play
Reading next to him on those hot summer days

The doors open
The warm breeze
The major 7th
And the do-re-mi

Take what you want
Tomorrow it's gone
Porcelain walls

With every step I take
Never meant to make them paces away
And you would see through my mistakes
A guiding hand I escaped

With every step I take
Never meant to make paces away
Wrap me in warm embrace
Love me just the same

And if my memory
Loses every
Day then how else
Can we speak?

Unforgiven
Absent witness
Unforgiven
I am unseen

With every step I take
Never meant to make them paces away
Wrap me in your warm embrace
Love me just the same

Writing letters you won’t receive
‘Cause I read somewhere that that’s healthy
It must have a slow release

As the gaze shifts inward
Tracing another course
Somehow always keeping step with
Gathering storms
And always running due north

Searching through all the tapestries
And the compositions for faux reprieve
Another blank face
I am nothing more than just sweet rain
And the page

I'll make the whole world an enemy
Over a self inflicted elegy
Shy away just sweet rain over extend
Storied cut to short in a script I can't end

I am nothing
Just sweet rain
And the page

I am nothing
And now the gaze shifts inward

Ammonia patterned glass
Covered in sun-kissed cracks
And all this will come to pass
I'll turn around I'm coming back

Hang on I'm gone
My fault I'll drone on
Hang on I'm gone
I-80 not long

Awake in the dew
Grass pressed down
Shelter my head

336 hours is all I'll be gone
Crossing a continent
Willful withdraw

It haunts me at night unwelcomed respite
And what a remorse and anger turned inward
A dying request the shore and forrest
You gave all that you had
All I could manage was ash

Was this really worth it?
It's not so clear in my head

An anger turned inwards
A dying request
I'll get you back to the lake someday
All I could manage was ash
And you would dip your feet in
Tracing lines in the sand
I'm sorry I got caught up
Just one more tour just one more band
A capsule in the sediment
All I could manage was ash

I'll get you to the lake someday
A sediment bed you'll rest