Blasé

Blasé

Why do you act so
blasé, as if the sky was
merely black and white?

Rambling

Rambling

Rambling
crackling
chuckling
rambling.

Love

Love

Love it once
love it twice
but never more than thrice
move on my man
move on my friend
move on from love's advice.

Confirmation

Confirmation

The stars fell into
place the moon smiled back and
I sat contently.

I love music

I love music

I love music
what else is there to say?
I love art I love poetry
I love cocoa on a cold winter day
I love the blue sky
imagining shapes of the clouds
I love the rain
the cool dew amidst flowers
I love books
pretending I'm someone else
a pirate in the sea
a flapper at a party
I love family I love friends
I love people
how laughter erupts in conversation
energy that never ends
I love music
what else is there to say?
the sentence could stop at I love.

A clean slate

A clean slate

A clean slate
a fresh plate
a full moon
a new tune
a turn in the road
a peace now bestowed.

Passion

Passion

Let's go back to when
love and passion steered us in
the right direction.

Peace on earth

Peace on earth

Peace on earth for all
that inhabit, peaceful thoughts
for all words spoken.

Speak

Speak

I have a frog in my throat
that goes ribbit ribbit
I have a frog in my throat
that can't sing it sing it.

Choices

Choices

You know what rules the world?
Yes and no.

Let's go downtown

Let's go downtown 

Let's go downtown
'cause I hear a sound so round
so outrageously profound
that it hits me as it gets me
pounds me as it crowns me
jolts me as it bolts me
all as it echoes to a mist.

All that time

All that time

All that time
and momentum
spent worrying
rocking back and forth
could have moved me forward.

Mantra

Mantra

To change the world
starts with me
to change the world
starts with me
to change the world
starts with me
to change the world
starts with we.

Let's go back

Let's go back

Let's go back
to the time
we did something for fun
for the love of it
instead of expectation
or validation.

I can sit here all day

I can sit here all day

Or I can look in the mirror and realize
I need fresh air.

We're the cats

We're the cats

We're the cats
that set the vibe
we're the club
that brings the hype
we're the family
that went to school
we're the tribe
that makes things cool
we're the mothers
who mess stuff up
we're the fathers
who don't give up.

Get it

Get it

Get it
got it
done

over.

Validation

Validation

It seems like a dictionary only term
one for the books
something done to get your name
on a plastic card
strapped to a chewed-up rope lanyard.

I choose

I choose

When you wake up
you have a choice
to love yourself
to be grateful for life
to find beauty in the unknown
and I choose peace.

Let us forget the past

Let us forget the past

Let us forget the past
for what it was
let us forget the past
for all of its woes
let us forget the past
to let us be present.

Finish line

Finish line

You're there
but not there

you see the finish line

someone jumps ahead of you

you fall
over an obstacle...

pick your self up and speed ahead

or stay in the dust.

The worst feeling

The worst feeling

the worst feeling
is being there
but not being there
present
but crystalized.

The next level

The next level

you can't get to the next level
without some sort of stepping stone

so I guess I'll just wait for that
stone
as I throw rocks in the water
rippling and rippling away.

My heroes

My heroes

My heroes
may not walk with us today
but they linger in the sounds of our steps
the curve of our speech
the echo of each sunrise

It's a gift

It's a gift

It's a gift
so take it
just take it
and give a piece away to others
to understand how
it's a gift.

Anxious

Anxious 

Anxiety stems from living in the future
as depression stems from living in the past
as happiness stems from just living.

Forgive me

Forgive me

Forgive me
for who I was
and how I felt
that earthly day

Forgive me
for I'll forgive you
as he forgave us.

When you want something

When you want something

When you want something
everything seems to take you there
to be for that cause

When you want something
your sentences seem to go up the hill
leading toward its house
and your eyes seem to stare
at its oceans and streams

When you want something
it's hard to stop
worrying
fighting
tossing and turning
over how it could be
or couldn't be

When you want something
is there a plan B?

When you want something
you go full force
and find yourself within that something
as it meets you at the finish line.

Comparing myself to you

Comparing myself to you

If I spent all day
comparing myself to you
why I could never win the fight,
the argument, the turmoil within myself

If I spent all day
comparing you to me
why I could never end the criticism
of this two way street

If I spent all day
comparing me to me
why I would see growth,
a journey, a purpose, me!

Jealousy

Jealousy

Jealousy
it seems to come over me
whenever I am pleased with myself

A beautiful day
let's go out and play

but no, no
it could be better
you could be better
it all could be better
so why even try?

Human beings

Human beings

Alienation is an absurd cyclone

that takes us in and makes us alone

when in the eye of it all 

is humanity all exactly alike.