Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Criss Cross

It's time I leave my past behind me once more...
Again I return to the isolation I've surrounded myself with.

No more running...
No more hiding...

Only living.
Only breathing.

No longer stuck at the cross roads.

Only driving into the sunset.

The world can be so simple...
Yet so complexed.

Do we ever stop to wonder what is really going on?
Or do we live the fantasy life we 've always dreamed?

And keep dreaming...
Not doing...

I'm ready to make my dreams realities.
And forever see the stars as the sparkles in someone's eyes.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Unlocking Hearts

The water is so cold...
But I must swim to the nearest dry spot.
I don't know how far it will be...
I don't know where I even began...

What if I drown in a world I'm not familiar with?

Will I be able to survive off of isolation?

I swam with dreams...
And bottled them up forever...

Only to forget those dreams in bottles...
And only to remember that I forgot them.

I look to the stars...
As a map so I can see...

But all I can really see is light in this tunnel of darkness...
Hope is always on my mind...

And love will always be in my eyes...
So if you look closely...

You may wonder what is there...
But you will never actually know...

I unlock doors with the key wrapped around my neck...
And a few hearts too.

But you will never get mine...

Because I will keep unlocking doors for you and I.

The Shadows Always Follow

It seems that by night...
I find the strength to get up again.

Sometimes I fall so far...
That you can't hear my screams.

But they are there...
Just like the shadows of our pasts.

Often I see my shadows...
But the night makes them all disappear.

Washing away my weaknesses, my insecurities, and fears.

Drenched in a life unknown to the world.
Believing in fairy tales and true love...

Not searching...
But learning...
To stand on my own.

Keeping up with time in a race.
Cherishing every second of it...

Leaving behind these negative thoughts and actions...
And leaving behind my shadow.