Cold Ivy
August 8, 2007

Snow creeps like ivy
My fingers are the trellis
Frost like acupuncture
To permeate the bliss
Leaving me drifting, listless
Lifeless

Pain swells like currents
My spirit is the river
Break like absolution
To make a chestnut splinter
Give me justice, spirit
Over

In the depths of the organ
Throbbing on the pathway
Bleeding is the Bodhran
Quarantined on the pavement
To leave me lifeless, loveless
Over  


What was Mine
August 8, 2007

What was mine, now is not
I don't smile at freedom, as I ought
I just lie there still, and hope to rot

What was mine, now is lost
I hope he knows what his desertion cost
My heartbeat stills, touched by frost

What was mine, now is gone
I stagger forward, on and on
And seek to grieve and curse an aeon 


Man, cracked like china
September 10, 2007

For a man, cracked like china
I've wept ninety nine times
For a man, cracked like china
I've lost my sense and dimes

Once beloved, once beloved, let me be

For a man, cracked like china
I've spent all of my short years
For a man, cracked like china
I've shed all of my tears

These emtpy words
Ninety nine times
This empty soul
These empty rhymes

For a man, cracked like china
The burden of my heart
He says he has no worthy goal
He says he doesn't fit into the greater whole
For a man, cracked like china
Well, I say he's sold his soul

He's sold his soul and stolen mine
This man, cracked like china
The child of a dream deferred
He weeps, and he screams, and he bleeds
Through the gaping porcelain holes
After the soul once sold

And now my once beloved
Is the greatest burden I've ever known

I find myself praying for the return
For a man, cracked like china
Heartbreaker, soon to hang himself
In the noose of his blind despair
Deaf to the greatest song, ever written

And now, once beloved, let me free
Loose me as an Easting wind
on Easter Sunday, be done
with your ever-serving lover

Now let your once beloved go