You say you love her
But you don’t know
She has no one else
To call home
You’re reaching out
Wonder why
Can’t help but ponder
Your only life
You feel a sense
Of closing in
And yet you’re on
The scent again
Purpose driven
You deserve more
But it’s not what
You can afford
So you stay steady
As time goes on
And we salute you
For all you’ve done
Does it get better
Guess we’ll see
Maybe one day
You wil...
You say you love her
But you don’t know
She has no one else
To call home
You’re reaching out
Wonder why
Can’t help but ponder
Your only life
You feel a sense
Of closing in
And yet you’re on
The scent again
Purpose driven
You deserve more
But it’s not what
You can afford
So you stay steady
As time goes on
And we salute you
For all you’ve done
Does it get better
Guess we’ll see
Maybe one day
You wil...
I can’t drive down Main Street
Without passing our shadows.
Fragmented figures of fiction
Who carry on carelessly,
Tripping over their ignorance,
Forgetting to be wary of time,
Thinking they will run readily
Into the past - soon enough.
Instead, they linger - lively and luminous,
Leering and choking on their laughter,
While I gaze on longingly,
Wishing to steal their moments away.
And to be so na...
You asked my favorite color
To learn what shade to be
Thinking you could figure out
How to blend in with me
You took on shapes and patterns
To distort yourself to match
Studying your subject
And developing a mask
Forcing a connection
Knowing what you stood to gain
Treating me like a level
In your manipulative game
You made it so appealing
To believe it could be real
To have someone understand m...
You asked my favorite color
To learn what shade to be
Thinking you could figure out
How to blend in with me
You took on shapes and patterns
To distort yourself to match
Studying your subject
And developing a mask
Forcing a connection
Knowing what you stood to gain
Treating me like a level
In your manipulative game
You made it so appealing
To believe it could be real
To have someone understand m...
The train is blaring its horn, angrily
But the sound only puts me at ease
It’s a familiar sound
Like a lullaby, ringing out
It tells me I’m safe and can sleep
But where are you now?
Nowhere I have found
And yet, I feel you’re not far
In the smallest of towns
I wish your voice sounded loud
as the train, so I could know where you are
© pennomoly...
I feel this empty pang of yearning for longer
Even though I’m not yet out of time
And a growing fear that time will never slow down again
Like it’s spinning out of control
And some great force was supposed to remember to reset its pace
But got caught up in more important things
I watch the sunrise and almost forget that it happened - only a moment later
While wishing that everyone had woken to a...
I feel this empty pang of yearning for longer
Even though I’m not yet out of time
And a growing fear that time will never slow down again
Like it’s spinning out of control
And some great force was supposed to remember to reset its pace
But got caught up in more important things
I watch the sunrise and almost forget that it happened - only a moment later
While wishing that everyone had woken to a...
You told me once
That you felt
Like the butt of everyone else’s joke
A jester
Meant to entertain
And you did
But a mockery
Is something you made
Of yourself
To feel loved.
So don’t blame the crowd
When they laugh
At your foolishness
While you put on a show
Displaying
What you think
Of yourself
To feel seen.
You won’t see me
Standing in the crowd
Laughing
I suspect you know that
Or you wouldn’t ...
