You left the faucet running for me I rinsed my mouth of doubt and slept in my own skin North Carolina - I am covered in fog Dancing mist hides my eyes so you do not see them rain The Veil - Come and lay with me You don't have to speak and we can heal in stillness - I wish you could know That I forgive you my heart still in pieces - I am hollow in my missing Only you could fill me But you are missing too The Missing - I have worked so hard to build these walls and all the while you were handing me the bricks Glass Houses - Nine months at sea I wrote your name with ease and let her eat you up The Siren - Bukowski told me not to try I did it anyway I think he'd be proud Rat bastard - Born a sun sign it drips from her fingertips Silly boy You cannot tame a lion - You are not the first man to use the word heavenly You will not be the last Compliments - Four walls and a door I chose the ceiling Space - Steam transcending above my mug rolling and waving as if its sole purpose was always to dance Sunday Morning - We converse through the tides him and I Pop - My mistress in waiting we have quite the history the sea and me - I realized too late that I could have loved you Your heart now in hands the size of my palm - I had fallen in love with the wild horses chasing sunsets in your eyes. - You say my name with the wrong amount of syllables and it sounds like a face I wouldn’t recognize Syllables - I could have chosen you But there were roadways ahead - I closed my eyes to clear it out These are not their words, their experiences They are mine and I will burn the pages to remember. - There is no missing only hollow kisses and shallow embraces What have I left? - You taste of cowardice and boyhood I have no time for such endings It is inevitable, after all - the ending. - I can hear them laughing, muffled and mangled through thin walls I can feel their newness the innocence I wonder too - Can they hear my solitude? - The falling of failures on my chest, cracking under pressure and from me flowed the mourning of a love yet to be found. - I called to say hello Your voice a 'Do Not Disturb' sign I delicately traced before thinking, "better not", and closed the door behind me Click. - "You are..." What? I am what? Vast? Elusive? Unusual? Your tongue cannot hold the words to describe what I am So chew them up and swallow them down You know nothing of me. - I was so rooted in familiar soil I'd forgotten how beautiful it feels to bloom. You Are My Sunshine