Nursery Dreams

It is the early morning stats check
The frost covering my back yard
I stand and just stare at your room
the crib I assembled
the blankets I have washed
all the little items of clothing waiting for you
snuggling with your future teddy bear at night
I feel you move inside your mothers belly
and it fills me with delight
I can't wait to hold you in my arms
And rock your tears away

Weeks Gone Missing

Cold water rises
River run wild
dark and swollen
Things change as it rushes by
space and time
It's a joke of sorts
that washes away traces
Of youth
of days gone by
Bringing new days
New life

Mashed

Peeling potatoes
Over the kitchen sink
gazing out the window
to kids playing in the fall evening
I cook dinner
I daydream of a life that could have been
And of the one that is

Motion Sickness

I make peace with the unanswered
with the fact that sometimes I have to be someone else
Make peace with the future you chose
I see stars in the morning sky
Mingled with my vapor breath
I make peace with those stars
and that silver sliver of a moon

Cold Shivers

Drive dark
straight to the center of the heart
I hurt with frustration
daily pushes to be someone else
I cannot turn around again and again
I cannot

Lead Pipe

Remote tumbling through time
I tried to use magic
To bring you home
It didn't work
I created a cyborg to be your double
My science fell short
My english skills too poor
To bring you to life in print
Sleeping well in his arms
Warm and sound
I freeze in my lab
Shiver in my sanctuary

There are no Time Machines in Washington D.C.

U.F.O.'s circle symbols of freedom
Alien propulsion pushing through the atmosphere
There are weeks
Days upon days
When the ache for you seems to never fade
Rumors of my demise are greatly exaggerated
Using all my brilliance to find a way to rewrite history
To suit me
Under the Sea
They move their plots forward
Trying to generate a genesis
A fresh start in a dying world
A way to follow me back

Plug the Jack into My Skull

This is just a brain drain
from a million miles away
Traveling this highway
Makes me miss train rides
Plane flights
Bar fights
Warm western evenings
I crawl
Belly in the sand
Slithering like a snake
To put money on the bar
and drink my fill
To drown in a puddle
Left by a brain storm

Instinct

Like bears in winter
my love hiberrnates
waiting for a spring that may never arrive
like a bullet in the chamber
my love is terrible and beautiful
Built for rainy dreary Wednesdays
and long drives west
Like tigers in the night
My love hunts for you
Thoughtless of your fear

Icebox

I
the all encompassing
I
The all knowing
eye
Aye
there are devils here
I
don't slow fade
Third
eye looks inward
I
expand and
become me

I flip a switch and

He burns electric
Your ghost
the one that lives in my memories
Lands
1
2
3
4
blows
before I can even react
I am on all fours
pouring blood from my mouth
These are my processor dreams
my celluloid screams
He burns electric
becoming the conduit
for all the emotions that are meant for me
A smartphone Messiah
Social networking God
I grovel in the dirt
for any scraps of you

October Chill

World on fire
I burn like falling stars
I hope you sleep well now
all dreams come true
I truly envy you
I truly miss you

Screw Cupid and His Arrows

I break the dawn over my knee
Pushing mountains back into the Earth
You curse the love I bleed
and send me reeling through the cosmos
I bounce off random moons,planets
cracking my head on a blazing comet
I lay dying near a gas giant
Cursing the love I bleed into the Milky Way

Afternoon Ghosty

Burns a hole in my pocket
Like fuel from a rocket
I spend the spare change
and read headlines
"I know you from somewhere"
I look up and see beauty
"I do...I know you from somewhere"
Before I can speak
she sits on my bench
and folds her delicate hands in her lap
"I close my eyes and see you in my mind"
Slowly turning her head she looks at me
"I feel we are connected"
I am rendered speechless
"Please tell me you feel it too"
And without thinking
"I feel it too" comes spilling from my lips
I blink and she is gone
Like an apparition
Like a dream
like the shortcuts I use to take through life
Burning a hole in my pocket
Like fuel from a rocket
I spend the spare change
and make my own headlines

Press Zero

Don't wanna be dumb
Full of woe and much further to go
Shoe worn by concrete
Worn by the way our eyes don't meet
Don't want to be dumb
Just want to hold your hand

Don't wanna be stupid
Full of sad, I feel so bad
Oh I'll go anywhere
You ask me to
Oh I'll do anything
you ask me to
Don't want to be stupid
Just want to hold you hand

Future Prime

Light emitting diodes
Blink randomly
Increase in speed
Flashing rapidly
My mind reels with the pressure
And I'm instantly in a hundred places at once
Many points in time
I can see so much
Information flowing into my brain
Possible futures
how many can I alter
At your altar I make my peace
My machines burn blue
Setting plans in motion

Formica

You are the sadness that is
tucked into the corner of my heart
You are the knot in my belly
when I wake in the night...
in the night or under the influence
when true feelings creep out
not the ones we have falsly painted
and now accept as truth
But what does it matter
this will go unread
and the future has you cornered
But I am the rat
Burning gasoline across a blackened highway