As the barmaid turned
Oneself struggles to swim ashore
If, drunk, face down on a puddle
A familiar face does not pull you up.
Drowning is excusable, alas, I swim rather well
Let it be known, I am grateful
I tend to forget to show it
Gratitude this is, compassion
For both you and me

I dismiss change, I seek to improve
Wit and peculiar humor share a common trait
Off color, fantasy talks of tales and wonder
Granted my eye socket is dislocated
The drink swirling
The swamp, fairies trapped in this glass
My head slipped, hit the deck
A dark omen, a swollen pretense
Stolen pride see's none thus wisps
Crawl under my bed at night
worse, my company ain't God.

Denial is all that I have known
My bones can break
Far better to have a soul on the mend
And busy hands
Solitude warms up to the taste
Of friends and companions alike
As we sail forward into the unknown
Safe travels drifter
May your ship be made of the better stuff still
I came to be convinced

See-saw

Tell me love, what compels one
To linger about
To move beyond the shadow of doubt
and change to-morrow.

To break away, in pieces
Is it a choice? Or the consequences that followed..
Have you been feeling so hallow
That you felt regret? A compulsion to emerge?
Or would you rather regress to the womb,
and repeat the tiny inches you once called steps
as you nurture the wounds and lick yourself in shame

Sharp, for it is pain and it is sad and it is with disdain
that one lays broken
For this is not hell, nor his friendly neighbor

But wait, as a last request
would you consider,
as I answer to myself,
a dance? For the sake of farewell:
miss me never, I never do.

What I discard today is the price
At any cost I said, but I didn't meant it
I forsook them in order to escape
Alas, I shan't return not even if I could change
They remind me of myself
And I see it again and again
In this dysfunctional see-saw
Mind, I do tend to forget