This is why you force everything else to fit you in.

Always I sailed heartset for tomorrow
Until you still the waves beneath your hand
I saw horizons never come so close
As one day's sunset swept across the land

So I won't mind horizons come and go
Come and go so we can't be forever

If I lose with you and me an evening
And find our smiles always there remain
I won't have to lose another season
In worries this might not last out the day

So I won't fret the seasons ebb and flow
Ebb and flow so we can't be forever

Did I even one day this year entwine
In anything an evening might reveal
The moment I weigh you and me and time
To set time down and leave a heart unsealed

So I won't mind horizons come and go
Come and go so we can't be forever

And I won't fret the seasons ebb and flow
Ebb and flow so we can't be forever

So what if all the rivers overflow
Sweep us off and we can't be together

Horizons seasons rivers I don't know
Moments shared with you will be forever

A bedtime story.

I even worry when I'm lost in dreams
The checkered tile scene
Her skin a marble sheen
Held close to him with hands autumn hued
Swearing softly You'll make it through

I wake to chills and breathing next to me
And feel my fears reprieved
So long as you're with me
You're safe but it's becoming so clear
That I've become your full-length mirror


When we first met you were the lowest low
That you had ever known
Wishing you weren't alone
Soon enough we came all entwined
Hearts and sadness so aligned

Caught between new love and old heartache
A wish you could remake
The last mistake you made
Shackled brokenwings couldn't fly
Leave you crying but you'll get by


And you know I would spend the longest while
On crazy plans so I could see you smile
To have your heartbeatfast or beat at all
To have you near as mine falters and falls


The evening you say you might soon be gone
Tired of being strong
Can't let this bleak drag on
I beg you wait with me just one night
Stay with me, don't fade to white

And I won't promise that you'll be okay
But spend just one more day
Before you go away
Come to bed unwrinkle your brow
Slow your breath and you're fine for now


And as your eyes close and your worries flag
I see I might be fucked up just as bad
But so long as you're sleeping next to me
I don't have leave to let my worries free


She starts awake to find that he is gone
The bathroom light is on
And trying to be calm
She holds him close with hands autumn hued
Swearing softly You'll make it through

I awake to find a dream unplayed
But in the dark afraid
Of mistakes I've yet made
I take you softly into my arms
Neither so safe, but each other warm

Heartinthemiddlings.

Loves I am loves a touch more erryday
Passion which fashionbly fades into grey
Is nothing like mine or indeed what I'd trust

I'd rather be lost in a lovetime with us
Than spend out a rather with beauty or wealth
Be so perfect featurd and perfectly healthd

All of these dreamings sit so poor compard
With the size of your eyes when you notice me there

Mystery mystery.

Some scoundrel snuck inside the wash
While I was washing mine
Said scumbag snatched up half my socks
Though just the matching kind

So now I have but one of each
One blue, one brown-gray hatched,
I've stacks of black and heaps of tweed
And nary one will match

What sneak would snaffle up such swag?
What criminal would walk
With time enough to sort the bag
But leave with single socks

Perhaps this looter lost a leg
And thus the one-sock spree?
(Part two: I checked beneath the bed -
The thief, it seems, was me)

Social service seminar

I know my heart and this somehow
Is one among the world
All-in, deciding moments which
Might set an end unfurled

But such the hopes we saw today ---
How could we choose just one to save?

...and you see it only once, or never.

The moments I am most awake
Are those when sleep begins to slow
As I forgo oneiroi strains
To find the wisp of you remains.

The wish of you defies my wit
To find the words that trace this heart
For all fall short; I only burn
Through all the letters ever learned.

I could not find the name for love
Without a chance this love to wake:
Those lips I take and find my lines
In dreams still swimming through your eyes.

I wish I'd said.

What are words but nonsense? The only things I know
Are seldom shades of anything that I could not forego.
So here is my confession: I have so few regrets
But love is only lovely as a lover can forget.

And there are moments I can't forget.

If you're lost, I'll find you. I owe you that at least.
And if you don't know where you are, I'll bring you back with me.
I can't bring you forever. You have to be okay
Without me love you have to be; we can't play this halfway.

Two hearts in half, and one must give way.