my lyric / poetry wotsits

MOMENT

Dry leaves flutter like a whisper in the wind
Drifting slowly with a harsh elegance
The broken record once more plays the old time dance
The child under the bridge cries out frightened

We choose to ignore our neighbours’ pleas
The silent scream that is never heard
Another human unremembered
But our end will justify the means

There is no time to listen to others’ pain
Compassion fades to only a faint pulse
And as we retreat we shall fall loose
And past mistakes will roll on by again

There is no heritage, no legacy
The past can have nothing to show
Because we’re all cyber now
And we learn from the screen

The ignorant man skips highly
For there is happiness in naivety
He frolics in his own boundaries
For there is comfort in familiarity

We didn’t create what we did discover
But we choose to ignore our history
That hangs over us so uncomfortably
So we cant also kill our future

The fragile moth shatters on the wall
So why bother to protect the children
When we can protect the animals.
A past we’d rather be forgotten

In just one moment a life can end
In just one moment a life can begin
For any moment a tear is shed.
A past we’d rather be forgotten

“I don’t want your history
I want to look for my dreams.
I’d look into the future-
But it’s too dark to see.”

The clock tolls on loud
The years roll by

Our potential of understanding in life is frittered away
The blind man yearns to see what we all take for granted today
But he is caged, whilst we are free to roam
But as we walk off cliffs, his screams
Will hold a greater eloquence (/dignity)

UNETHEREAL

Flailing in this stale air
Seeing ghosts through the smog
But at second glance they’re not even there
I don’t even know how I got here

This rising nausea chokes me
There’s too much reality in fantasy

This is how I was cursed
For ever falling for you
Is this how you satisfy your thirst?
I’m on my knees, begging for mercy

Faces leering close to me
Fleeting distant and blurry
Crawling between the lights
Crashing through the wilderness
Is this my life? Is this my fight?
No control. I’m passive
Searching inside: Nothing but emptiness
Crying out: What must I give?

The dreams go on forever
No wind blows here
But still I shiver
Cloaked in my blanket of fear
I can’t cope with staying
I’m looking for an escape
I’m probing for the lever
Morning’s too far away

Grey mists envelop my body
Blinding me, restricting me
I can hear you all around
I’m screaming silent, I make no sound
I’m tearing at these ties that bind
Toying with feelings of the deepest kind
Tearing out chunks of deadened cells
Eating myself to stay alive

Black skeleton trees
Remind me of all I am inside
Cackles echo through splintered teeth
Running nowhere. I can’t hide
Moon reflecting in the lake
Pale face stares back mocking
I’m reaching for the fruit of the mandrake
I don’t understand. What is this showing?

Twisting vines creep the ground
Choking the trees that give us life
Nettles sting forever with no sound
Vines are twisting, groping, curling around our necks
I’m not breathing, but I’m still living
Immortality, condemned to suffer forever
Gulliver’s laughing in the corner
Hear my voice-this wasn’t my choice

Tortured myself today
Torturing myself tonight
Self-made executioner
Manifesting nightmares
As old folk-lores
Scrabbling for the door
But defiant eyes remain closed
No dream. This goes on forever

Stumbling down the same worn paths
Problems of you never come in halves
You yourself created this monster
That you’re now willing to torture
Puppet. Your voodoo doll. Your son
Is this my past, present, or future I see?
Or maybe just grim reality
The dream goes on and on and on…

Questions undefined
Questions unanswered
Am I here searching to find
My truth?

I’ve already reached the end
But I don’t remember the start

SOUL TRAUMA

SKIN DEEP

Beauty scars her soul
She can’t resist the bittersweet temptation
To pay the man
To stop her from growing old

She paints on new lines
In an effort to cover the cracks of old
She tells herself she’s special
But we’ve all seen her a million times

A plastic nightmare
She lost
When she dared
To become a teenage dream
Dreams always come at a cost

Sucked down through numbness
All she yearns for is to look the best
And stand out from all the rest
Fashion beauty a fatal temptress

Rivers run beneath her skin
She’s building mountains to cover the holes
Unaware that beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Nothing can ever cover what lies within

A plastic nightmare
She lost
When she dared
To become a teenage dream
Dreams always come at a cost

Shy eyes dart through a plastic mask
Views her body in the reflection of a glossy magazine
Her past never was-she says she’s always been
Is self-acceptance just too much to ask?

DOLL.

Feed drugs into your mind
To forget what you left behind
Cheap sex is what you do best
And you’ll be trapped here, lest
You pick up your mind and walk away
Cos there’s a head above that chest
Put an end to this slow decay
Leave this town and find a job that pays

Your love is empty
But it still don’t come free
Good doll. Bad doll

I only wish that you could see
How this life is taking it’s toll, on everyone
Knowing you’ll soon be gone
You’re not living when you’re dying

Your love is empty
But it still don’t come free
Good doll. Bad doll

To the monsters you avert your eyes
As slowly inside you the feelings subside
And retreat from the world outside
I refuse to believe you have died

Your love is empty
But it still don’t come free
Good doll. Bad doll

Standing, lying, staring blankly
The humanity drips off you slowly
I’m picking up the pieces frantically
But I can see clouds in your eyes

Lying bare
Legs out wide
I can’t see you
Only my nightmare
We’re on your side
But what can we do?

LAST CALL

Tell me your poison, honey
Tell me of what you keep hidden
Cos in that head which lies so pretty
I sense tales and secrets long forbidden

Give me your truths
You know keeping secrets never sooths your soul
I want to help you
But now I feel that I don’t know you

There was a time I’d look deep into your eyes
But now all I see is walls when I try
To each other’s minds; we are blind
Since you built your life on lies

You say you’re looking for freedom
But I don’t believe you
You make everything a mountain
How does it feel to be you?
Or don’t you feel?
Is this all just some cheap façade?
Or are you truly for real?
You’re not alive if it’s all a charade

How does it feel?
How does it feel?
How does it feel to be you?

How does it feel to be you?
How does it feel to be used?
How does it feel to be abused?

You got a raw deal
But time will heal
So don’t you give up on me

Embrace this world we call our own
Rid your soul of this emptiness
Rid your mind of this bitterness
Scars will heal and you’ll have grown

I don’t want to have to leave you
But all this will soon destroy me
As you walk that blade into the sea
Before I even know if your face is true

I’m sick of these lies
Open your eyes
Open your eyes to me

Is it all just a disguise?
To cover the reason I saw you cry?
If you don’t bleed-you will never be free

Your lips move, but you still don’t say-
What furies eat your head
You don’t reveal what happened that fateful day-
To cause you to lead that life you led

I’m scared of what lurks inside of you
I try my best to try to help you
But there’s nothing more that I can do
Than just leave you be, and pray for you

If you want to be free
Then learn to trust me
Cos you are your own worst enemy

I know that you don’t understand
The poison that eats your mind
But stay close to me, and don’t be frightened

A last call before I say goodbye
A last call before I say goodbye
A last call before your spirit will die
A last call before I say goodbye
A last call before I say goodbye

Praying For You.

Her eyes have seen the scenes
That make up a thousand memories
Her lips taut upon a painted face
She knows she could never leave this place

She stares back into my eyes
Thinking I’ll never see through her disguise
But she never changed that face she wore
And I’ll never forget what I saw

Wake up
I’m praying for you
And I won’t let you go.

She’s drowning in this black sea
And even though I know she can’t hear me
I call out to her
But my voice echoes back a slur

She sleeps softly forever now
I’ll never know if I was friend or foe
I lay a lasting kiss upon her forehead
She’ll sleep forever soundly in this bed

Is this all there is?
Is this all we are?-
All we are here for?

Is this it?

I’m praying for you
I won’t let you go

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