Overcome

Overcome 

Though the depth of despair lays bare your soul

There's a beauty to your willingness to be broken 

your openness to overcome is breathtaking 

A mystery I'll always try to understand 

the warmth of your sun shines through 

thawing the icy cold 

I see the whole world in your eyes 

your struggle giving you an inner strength 

that is unexplainable 

refusing to fall

You are a vessel of hope 

Giving us strength 

teaching us all monsters want the same thing:

destruction...

never let them take over

You are more than the despondency within

You are the light that guides me home 

Animal Cry

a heart wrenching cry wail..

so visceral - I feel you cut to my core..

Just let go

What used to be doesn't count anymore..

I'll teach you how to do it new

I won't let you say goodbye 

I won't watch you give up 

You cry out silently - 

eyes begging for help..

Osee what's before you..

I will be the she who holds out her hand

The anchor who won't let go..

Hear the scream of my heart 

listen to the loudness of my animal cry for you..

I'm the beast who will fight your demons 

until your mind is no longer weary, 

Until your heart is beating on its' own 

Until your legs find the strength & courage to carry you home

Because that is what love does..

Dust in the wind..

The feel so real 

The fine powder of you covering me 

dust in the wind

nerve endings fire up with the scent.. 

familiar connective tissues back to life 

the debri of we falling back into a stable arrangement of lifelong hopes & dreams..

Yet the dusting of you never settles

as the gust blows through me 

A cold blast of wind rips through my heart 

pulling you from me 

as I clutch on to the remnants of what was..

Deadly Love

she hears sounds 

Sees the lips moving

meaningless words..

The praises bestowed upon her full of empty air

Choking her silent until she couldn't care 

muting her with expectations 

silencing her with his cold indifference 

He shut her down by dismissing her thoughts 

Unaware that she was disappearing into the words..

she heard & felt all the judgement until she wore it like her skin 

buried underneath 

She became invisible..

No one saw the destruction she had become 

All was not well within the walls of her home

Nothing would revive the corpse of her soul

he loved her cruelly until she was no more

Escape Artist

The stillness surrounds her

It's all familiar as her eyes open 

bringing life to her mind

Her heart hearing the words before they escape his lips..

everything has changed everything remains the same..

all of life's moments filtering through her as she hungrily laps it up 

absorbing every drop 

Ravenous for change 

Clinging to hope 

Believing every moment has its' reason and each step a purpose.. 

the very precipice she teeters at determining whether she flees or stays.. 

Desperate to settle 

anxious for her heart to breathe 

She simply chooses to believe

As if it will all fall into place 

Knowing the highest cliff she could jump from

Is trust 

there's no reason to run anymore 

leaving behind the chains that strangled her heart 

and the handcuffs that bound her tight 

the ropes slip off her feet  

and the old becomes new 

She is confined no more..

Quiet Roar..

Quiet Roar..

rumbling 

shaking 

jumbling me to my core 

not sure how it started 

when it began

or where it will end

was there a hello

Is there a goodbye  

is it from within 

Where does it go..

are you just a dream 

I have direction no more 

I'm laying flat out on the floor 

I'm going to love you a little bit more 

Until i hear that quiet roar 

Not Today...

Everything is spinning 

all meshed together 

Good slipping away,

bad gaining power,

happy & sad 

all bleeding as one 

Threatening to bury us in its' mess

we are fading in&out..

Who will break the fall

we will not shatter..

Though like broken sticks and broken stones turn to dust, so will our bones 

we are still standing strong 

not blowing in the wind yet

Not today..

Hold me tight 

we will walk & fall united 

Together as one 

You're my hero 

I'm your weakness 

We are the best of it all

Made from love 

Here's to you & me

and our hearts' content..