Late Afternoon

I breathe in your air

and hum to your tune.

If hours were fair,

then I'd be home soon,

but I'm lost in the glare

of this late afternoon.

I just want to be there

underneath your moon.

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"Now and then it's good to know why everything happens for a reason. I know you cross your heart. I will find you." Fatherson Half the Things

Daydream

I stepped inside your daydream

to find my world perfected.

Upon your face, a smile gleamed,

my heart you had collected.

I thought I felt you take my hand.

I thought I heard you sing.

Nothing ever goes as planned:

your map, your watch, your ring.

I thought I heard you tell a truth,

but lost it in translation.

It sounded something quite uncouth,

negotiated narration. 

From the sky, a fog dispeased

and covered me in grey.

Of all your fears, I am the worst,

so hide your love away.

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"It's a daydream I keep having to make the clocks move while I'm working." Kevin Devine Tapdance

"How could she say to me: 'love will find a way?'" The Beatles You've Got to Hide Your Love Away

So Dance the Stars

Maybe I'm dreaming

that song of ours.

I hear the sky is singing:

so dance the stars.

Upon them, I wished

and told not a soul.

It might have been selfish,

but I meant it with all

the blood that I keep

in antiquated arteries.

I'll tell not a peep

of those longing love stories.

Yet, I only find your eyes

on crystal clear nights.

Our satellite spies

whisper secrets in light.

When the clouds lay thick, 

I feel you're gone.

Maar nu zie ik

onze maan.

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"The stars are underground and the proof is flying overhead." The Frames The Stars are Underground

Out of Light

You don't think it's like me,
but I don't think you know me

well enough to make that call

or maybe even not at all

anymore.

I'm down on the floor.

Let me take a hit.

You think I won't like it,

but I think you just don't want me to.

I wish I knew which lines were true.

Now, poetry is distance

with a mean side of persistence,

but I still place you far above.

What a careless love.

The sound of your voice,

you've kept hidden by choice,

is a promise never kept,

just a dreams as I've slept.

And I don't believe you're trying

and it's fucking terrifying.

So, I'm floating out of sight,

out of mind, out of light.

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Just kinda thinking about stars exploding. They get really bright in our skies and then fade and, eventually, their light fades and goes out entirely. And their light actually went out long before we got that message here on Earth.

"Careless love, quit pouring honey in my ears. You're speaking diamonds crystal clear. So far away; I want you near." City and Colour Wasted Love

"As I stand at the dusty train station, foreign waters keep us apart. No you can't come in right now. It's far too quiet." Fatherson Foreign Waters

"I hold my hands close to my chest." Fatherson Lights

Always

I wondered if you heard me
when I dreamed I called your name.
I know I'm just too far to see.
Of you, I feel the same.
I told myself it couldn't be,
but watched the growing flame.
I can't contend with sky or sea,
though neither are to blame.

The planet turns, hours pass;
the record skips, but plays.
My heart is beating: spits and spats;
my mind: it is ablaze.
Remember when the earth was flat
and there were no wrong ways,
you searched for me through lakes and grass.
I searched for you always.


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"I caught you nesting with your analog..." Bad Books You're a Mirror I Cannot Avoid

"I'm alone in this I'm as I've always been, right behind what's happening. She's all lost in this; she's all like she'll always be: a little far for me to reach." Jimmy Eat World Always Be

My Grayscale Skies

Clouds always

followed me

and tucked themselves
in tightly

under my blankets.

They muffled every

pretty song

and chilled every

warm word.

I never saw
the stars above

that twinkled far beyond

nor a single, singing
blue bird,

swimming in sunshine.

But when I met you,

my grayscale skies

turned blue.

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"It's my brother's blood and my dirty lungs and my crooked mouth on my swollen tongue on my fathers gun in each strangers face, across the blue bird sky, and each hand I shake night after night." Kevin Devine Brother's Blood

Symphony

There are words inside

your suspicious silence.

Your tongue is tied

in disquieted defiance,

but I found your air

trapped in my lungs

and your secrets, I swear,

will remain unsung.

Your symphony on mute

is an exotic sort of treat.

I already know your truth;

I am your heartbeat.

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It's a semicolon, not a colon or a period, for a reason. 

"So promise me if we both die violently that the blood dripping from our chins is a symphony." I Am the Avalanche Bloody Symphony

"One night to be confused. One night to speed up truth. We had a promise made, four hands and then away." The Knife (via Jose Gonzalez) Heartbeats

Squeezes

You're the hand the plunges

deep inside my chest,

wraps fingers 'round my heart,

squeezes.

We share this blood

through waves in time,

so if you cut a vein,

you bleed me dry.

Try, as I might

to breathe on my own,

I can't fill my lungs,

no, not all alone.

My voice is prone

to crack and choke,

but I'll make my point

in the songs that you sing.

Yes, I'll say my piece

and let the noise cease.

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"Oh, I dream to heal your wounds, but I bleed myself." Sunny Day Real Estate In Circles

"You are the smell before rain; you are the blood in my veins" Brand New The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot

"My lungs are fresh and yours to keep, kept clean and they will let you breathe." Brand New Play Crack the Sky

"And I'm choking right along with the words in my throat. I'm falling back in love with the letter you wrote. And I think that I was wrong, but I guess I don't know. I figure that I'll wait until you tell me so." Kevin Devine The Longer That I'm Out Here