Let me be your eyes

So you might see again

Let me view every beautiful thing

Through the lens of your innocence

Let me be your voice

And I will speak for you

There's so much you left unsaid

You spoke inside your head

Let me be your love

You had so much to give

I showed you how to share it

I'm grateful that you did

Let me be your heart

So it might beat once more

That lovely thing...

She spent her life

In seas of Shes

With no Hes around

She left her world

To find the Hes

Of which she’d heard about

She pondered all-night

And dreamed all-day

What the Hes could do or say

But upon arrival

She found with dismay

That Shes and Hes

Were mostly the same...

I felt the pulse of the audience as I entered from stage right. I observed the crowd, whose size had been gradually sinking in numbers since opening night.

By January we were all destined to be a washed-out production, stripped clean of its original thrills, lumped together with the rest of the has-beens and never-will-bes.

I could hear my co-star ending his monologue. His voice held the weight ...

Nancy slams the apartment’s door as she enters. A far cry from her usually peppy persona.

“I think Fran wants to break up.”

I look up from my spot on the couch.

“Did she say that?”

“Through…implications.”

I roll my eyes, returning to the commercial break.

Nancy pauses the TV, causing me to groan.

“I’m not your personal love guru.”

“I’ll give you five bucks if you just shush and listen.”

...

The perfect crime has no victim

The salty air can be my witness

My alibi, the prison in my head

Crumbling the moment I have finished

For the waters know what it means

To be battered to and fro

She welcomes my embrace

And melts away my years alone

She does not know to judge

And will not cease in strength

She drags to me down her depths

And through her hazy lengths

Water does not pity

A...

“What the hell?” He spoke through strained breaths, his finger like an arrow to my chest.

“Don’t blow this out of proportion, Rhys, I just made a mistake.”

“A mistake? That's what you think this is.” He spun me around to the cabin door, where the limp body lay.

“We can take him to the lake, nobody will notice-” I start to think out loud.

“We? I can't even look at you. Who even are you? Becaus...

I woke up forgetting to love you

And didn’t remember till noon

I almost forgot to kiss you

When you had forgotten to swoon

You’d think we’d have it together

After all the loving we’ve done

But we’re just as lost as ever

It sure is hard being in love...

She stood by the altar

Feeling similar to the bouquet she held

Beneath her sweaty palms

Beautiful but contained

Alive, but in a denouement

He gazed into her aquatic eyes

And saw unexplored depths

Of which he struggled to dive

And only ever glazed the surface

They never met each other

And they never got to say goodbye

To the pieces of themselves

That couldn’t cross the borders

Whe...

They say live within your means

Their means surpass my life

Within a glass chateau

With too many rocks to throw

An echo in every room

A door at every corner

A hundred seats to rest upon

A thousand books to order

I want to live here forever

I want to burn it down

I want to laugh at their riches

While dressed in a velvet gown...

We met in the outskirts of the summer

She loved like the dying foliage

With an enchanting closing act

With an audience of one

Gone before she escaped

She hated goodbyes

But loved to run

I stayed to

Watch her

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