To Forget

 

if my heart forgets how to dance

will you help it to remember?

if my mind runs wild

will you help tame it?

as a tear falls 

i'm lost to the reason.

one look in my eyes 

and you can read me.

my body shivers and my hands shake.

my heart is pounding to an unknown beat.

as the world drowns me in its crazyness

i shed a tear of my wasted sanity.  

laughter once sounded wonderful

and now silence is what i need.

i feel it slipping slowly

i feel me fading away...

so if  my mind runs wild 

please tame it...

but if my heart forgets how to dance...

let me go.

~~grb~~  

                                                 

                                                 2012

A thought in normal light

in the normal light i was thinking

about the old times

i walked the street tonight

breathing in nature and feeling it wrap around me

i walked up the step to enter in...

i use to see you sitting there

remote in hand, feet kicked up

once a smile...later just disappeared.

i used to warm up to those moments 

now i walk in...dark room and cold air

i grab a blanket to warm my bones

i grab a book to warm my mind

i reach for prayer to warm my heart.

in the normal light i was thinking...

reach out...

on the long walk i was feeling...

let it be

oh when you're cold

i am not there to hold you tight

oh when you're lost

i am not there to lead you back

oh when you need to cry

i am not there to dry your eyes....

in time, you will forget

but i will walk in the normal light and think

i once did that

on the long walk on a darkened road i will remember

i use to be that for you.

I was once by your side.

I will let it be...for now...

As it is what it is.

but in my mind...

A tear falls 

oh when you are cold

remember to grab a blanket

oh when you are lost

grab a compass

i will be north

you will be south

we may never meet

but we will always know. 

~~grb~~  2012

The Inner You

It's the inside where it is dark

calmly waiting behind the darkest part it can find.

It's the inner most part that most don't want out.

The part that may cause judgement from the light around.

It's the deepest you.

It's the decisions others may find to be wrong

It lingers in the corridors of your soul.

It sets the focus for your desired dreams

And the procrastination of the ones you think you need. 

It's the inner you.

When the night falls and the sky sleeps

it longs to come out....

And you mustn't fight it. 

When the world feels like a magnetic force

and you are the magnet...

When your body feels like it's drowning 

by the world around it...

When the ultimate suffocating device 

stares right back at you in the mirror....

You grab for it. 

You let it crawl through every piece of you 

for the ultimate escape.

You feel it tear through your body 

Until you release it through your scream......

It's the inside where it is dark

calmly waiting behind the darkest part it can find.

It's the inner most part that most want out.

The part that has no fear

The part that can handle anything...

It's the deepest you.

``grb 2012``