In evenings blue
I think of you
It starts with a heartbeat
That provides me with a drum
Beginning the rhythm
Of your song
Then the breath in my lungs
Keeping time
Gives me air
To speak every rhyme
I wrote this for you
Every word
That tumbles off the tip of my tongue
Is just another way
I've found to say I love you
Don't look back on where you've been
Look at me
As the dance begins I start to spin
I feel alone without you
Your arms around my waste
Keeping me from falling
I know what you do in the dark
I know what you think when no one is looking
I've seen the sadness in your eyes
Those who mock the souls that need each other are dead
They are jealous that we might have found the answer
That we hold on to each other
While they grasp at oblivion
"....Great is Thy faithfulness,
Oh God our Father,
There is no shadow of turning with Thee..."
Touch me and make me whole
I don't ask questions when I'm with you
I think of you
In evenings blue
k.g.
Copyright 2015
29.10.15
26.10.15
It's a dangerous game we play
Dancing our way to daylight
Losing ourselves in the darkness
You can't find a place to hide
When you're holding each other's souls
In your bare hands
Emotions rage
And eyes change color
Our voices nothing but a whisper
We fly into the night
Fleeing from the dawn
Like angels falling from the sky
I want to die and your arms
And you can sleep in mine
Perfectly free from time
Similar hearts
Not drawn to the sun
Meant for another world
Meant for each other
k.g.
Copyright 2015
Dancing our way to daylight
Losing ourselves in the darkness
You can't find a place to hide
When you're holding each other's souls
In your bare hands
Emotions rage
And eyes change color
Our voices nothing but a whisper
We fly into the night
Fleeing from the dawn
Like angels falling from the sky
I want to die and your arms
And you can sleep in mine
Perfectly free from time
Similar hearts
Not drawn to the sun
Meant for another world
Meant for each other
k.g.
Copyright 2015
24.10.15
Rivers run deep
With thoughts I once chose to keep
Secret.
I knew you couldn't keep it
Hidden for long.
It was once only a song
I chose to sing,
But it became a lie that would continually ring
In my ears.
I wasted so many years
Trying to be good enough
For you,
But I don't want to anymore.
I've shut the door,
But I have not locked it.
You can come to me anytime,
But I will no longer run home to you.
I found the little girl I left by the rivers.
She almost drowned,
But I chose to save her.
I'm taking her back from you now,
For you did not keep her safe from the monsters.
But that's okay.
You didn't even know they were there.
k.g.
Copyright 2015
With thoughts I once chose to keep
Secret.
I knew you couldn't keep it
Hidden for long.
It was once only a song
I chose to sing,
But it became a lie that would continually ring
In my ears.
I wasted so many years
Trying to be good enough
For you,
But I don't want to anymore.
I've shut the door,
But I have not locked it.
You can come to me anytime,
But I will no longer run home to you.
I found the little girl I left by the rivers.
She almost drowned,
But I chose to save her.
I'm taking her back from you now,
For you did not keep her safe from the monsters.
But that's okay.
You didn't even know they were there.
k.g.
Copyright 2015
22.10.15
Our dreams are vivid but they are short
Consisting of only the few brisk moments between
Our birth and our death:
The book ends time has provided for us
That encase the series of breaths and heartbeats
We refer to as "life".
Visions of bright futures dance before our minds eye
Because though we are born into a world of color
We only dream in black and white,
Always telling ourselves there's something better
Right around the corner.
Little do we know of the lie we've been told
For we chose to forget the way it weighed upon our hearts
That we could not in fact change the world.
We call ourselves warriors because we have survived thus far.
But we fight for nothing.
While the blood of our enemies still courses through their veins
The blood of our children is pour into our hands.
Look at what we've left for them!
We are not warriors but middlemen
For the slave traders that lied to us:
"Give us you're children and we'll give you the future!"
Now the future is bleak and our children are dying;
Becoming nothing but bodies that do others bidding.
Artists are no longer born on this earth,
We have taught them to be of one mind:
Always accepting, always believing,
Never thinking, never loving.
Someday the mind will rise against those
Who dare to explore the conscious state for themselves.
Then all will be lost,
And the warriors shall become unmarked graves.
For those who fight for nothing die for nothing,
And those who die for nothing cease to exist in the minds of mortals.
k.g.
Copyright 2015
Consisting of only the few brisk moments between
Our birth and our death:
The book ends time has provided for us
That encase the series of breaths and heartbeats
We refer to as "life".
Visions of bright futures dance before our minds eye
Because though we are born into a world of color
We only dream in black and white,
Always telling ourselves there's something better
Right around the corner.
Little do we know of the lie we've been told
For we chose to forget the way it weighed upon our hearts
That we could not in fact change the world.
We call ourselves warriors because we have survived thus far.
But we fight for nothing.
While the blood of our enemies still courses through their veins
The blood of our children is pour into our hands.
Look at what we've left for them!
We are not warriors but middlemen
For the slave traders that lied to us:
"Give us you're children and we'll give you the future!"
Now the future is bleak and our children are dying;
Becoming nothing but bodies that do others bidding.
Artists are no longer born on this earth,
We have taught them to be of one mind:
Always accepting, always believing,
Never thinking, never loving.
Someday the mind will rise against those
Who dare to explore the conscious state for themselves.
Then all will be lost,
And the warriors shall become unmarked graves.
For those who fight for nothing die for nothing,
And those who die for nothing cease to exist in the minds of mortals.
k.g.
Copyright 2015
17.10.15
I want to know what it's like
To be the blood in your veins
To be the breath in your lungs
And the words upon your tongue
And the beating of your heart
I want to know what it's like
To give you life
To give you love
To give you a reason to wake up in the morning
And to crawl back in bed at night
I want to know your tears
And your smile
And your kiss
I want to know the feel the touch of your hands
I want you know what it's like
To be your laughter
Your peace
Your love
Your life
k.g.
Copyright 2015
To be the blood in your veins
To be the breath in your lungs
And the words upon your tongue
And the beating of your heart
I want to know what it's like
To give you life
To give you love
To give you a reason to wake up in the morning
And to crawl back in bed at night
I want to know your tears
And your smile
And your kiss
I want to know the feel the touch of your hands
I want you know what it's like
To be your laughter
Your peace
Your love
Your life
k.g.
Copyright 2015
8.10.15
the forks in the road
wont lead me home
a place ive never known
i wander cold and alone
down the wrong path
i have found myself at last
do you hear them whisper
they speak the unspeakable things
under the shining of pretty lights
and neon signs
whats it like to feel alive
ive seen them jump from high places
but they dont see their own hands
bloody red
the hands of the heartless
wont lead me home
a place ive never know
i wander broken boned
down the wrong path
i have found myself at last
roses wither in the winter
butterflys die in spring
my face melts in the summer
desert rain drowns me out
but my demise is so beautiful
the decomposition of what could have been
i wonder what its like
to be made whole again
k.g.
copyright 2015
wont lead me home
a place ive never known
i wander cold and alone
down the wrong path
i have found myself at last
do you hear them whisper
they speak the unspeakable things
under the shining of pretty lights
and neon signs
whats it like to feel alive
ive seen them jump from high places
but they dont see their own hands
bloody red
the hands of the heartless
wont lead me home
a place ive never know
i wander broken boned
down the wrong path
i have found myself at last
roses wither in the winter
butterflys die in spring
my face melts in the summer
desert rain drowns me out
but my demise is so beautiful
the decomposition of what could have been
i wonder what its like
to be made whole again
k.g.
copyright 2015
The story begins:
I never thought I'd lose him.
The feelings do not leave,
They only change.
Sometimes they grow,
Sometimes they mutate
Into monsters that hide under my bed.
They talk to me at night,
And tell me lies.
Leave me alone, please.
I wish they would go away.
I can't concentrate on what is real.
Everything feels like a dream.
I don't like this bedtime story.
I want this to end.
I want to be young again.
Take me back to a time
Before I knew your name.
k.g.
Copyright 2015
I never thought I'd lose him.
The feelings do not leave,
They only change.
Sometimes they grow,
Sometimes they mutate
Into monsters that hide under my bed.
They talk to me at night,
And tell me lies.
Leave me alone, please.
I wish they would go away.
I can't concentrate on what is real.
Everything feels like a dream.
I don't like this bedtime story.
I want this to end.
I want to be young again.
Take me back to a time
Before I knew your name.
k.g.
Copyright 2015
Where have I found this
Shaken peace? Within myself,
Or within another? Can you imagine
Me living without him? I've tried
Running away from home
So many times I lost count.
Will you find me? Even if I run away
Into the dark? It's a start
To finding who I am. Who am I?
I fell amidst the rubble of my childhood,
And I haven't been myself since.
It's as if I broke both my feet,
But I'm still trying to dance. Find me
Mangle and twisted,
Dancing underneath the stars
In the dark
Where no one can see my broken form.
Come, let's go get lost in the dark
Where he can't find us. You broke our hearts
When we called to you. Now we will call
To each other.
k.g.
Copyright 2015
Shaken peace? Within myself,
Or within another? Can you imagine
Me living without him? I've tried
Running away from home
So many times I lost count.
Will you find me? Even if I run away
Into the dark? It's a start
To finding who I am. Who am I?
I fell amidst the rubble of my childhood,
And I haven't been myself since.
It's as if I broke both my feet,
But I'm still trying to dance. Find me
Mangle and twisted,
Dancing underneath the stars
In the dark
Where no one can see my broken form.
Come, let's go get lost in the dark
Where he can't find us. You broke our hearts
When we called to you. Now we will call
To each other.
k.g.
Copyright 2015
1.10.15
the words dance upon my tongue
but i cannot find the breath in my lungs
to ignite my voice
to verbalize the song my heart has sung
night and day
he walks into the room
with him bringing a light i have not seen
a different light
a stronger light
a light that was his own
and it shone upon me
exposing my darkness
and now i dont want to leave
i have never claimed to be wise
ive never pretended to be strong
but this is my life
this is what i choose
k.g.
copyright 2015
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