Decisions.

What would it take
for you to leave behind
your life, your friends
your family, your time
to go and pursue
something new, something
fresh which calls to you.

You'll walk away
and forget it all
knowing that you chose
but didn't fall,
understanding to follow
but not for all.

Criticism, ridicule
we walk these halls
speaking not at all
gathered here
silent and still
not a thought to
heal our wounds.

...you know how i feel.

Eyes white
broken jade
smoke filling up
a calmed glade.
Sparkle once
and twinkle twice
simply filled
and cold as ice.
The jogging thus
we come to find
isn't moving truly
but a lack of the mind.
Sit and die
with nothing there
faking each
and every dare.
Living, walking
dead go by
sitting singing
sweet lullabies
moving on with
stolen eyes
to dream again
so sweet tonight.

A challenge

But daddy told me
he would give me
brand new things
and make me happy
if i did just one
small thing and
poked all these holes
in those little rubber things.

My new mommy
he said i'd find
would bring rainbows
and joy to our lives
but i had to do
just this one thing
to make her stay
and she would bring...

a puppy, and joy, and happy thoughts
to this broken family filled with plots
she'd love me and hold me and feed me true
just for a few little holes in a rubber balloon.

Gone(Might be done..maybe some wording changes)

How sweet the sound
of your voice
when you left that day.
I'll never forget
what you said
those words
broke my heart
You left me to die
torn apart
and filled with lies.

Why'd you leave
and take away
all that i had
you're gone to stay.
But i still
feel that pain
so i drink
and push it away
sing this song
and hope i die
today

wish you'd come back
just you see
you can't say
you don't love me
and you'll find
that maybe this time
I was right
you're meant to be mine
but i know
that i'm wrong
and that you're
dead and gone
so i sit
bide my time

Why'd you leave
and take away
all that i had
you're gone to stay.
But i still
feel that pain
so i drink
and push it away
sing this song
and hope i die
today

Its lonely here
now that you're gone
i sit and wait
to follow along
but this rope
it's too damned long
so i cry
cry in vain
for your love
to be mine again

Why'd you leave
and take away
all that i had
you're gone to stay.
But i still
feel that pain
so i drink
and push it away
sing this song
and hope i die
today

Information Age Plauge

Standards came
and went and died
and passed us by
in lullabies.

We knew home
our culture true
what came before
nothing new.

Stories trailed
and tattered now
mutts we became
in this stew.

We split our ties
our songs but cries
of loneliness, separation
wretched lives.

No one knows
our newest pains
ancestors forgotten,
sad, ashamed.

Tradition is gone
community trashed
nothing lives in that
brighter past.

But we sit and sing
our lies and lives
on digital wires
reaching wide.

Cold and dark
this vast emptiness
this net of tears opens
our fears.

Traverse it with
careful eyes, but know
that always you are
bound and blind.

Eyes dark and dimmed
phosphor glow
electric wires we're
chained alone.