• paint the smile onto my face.


    cracked like plaster
    broken like shattered glass
    eyes filled with tears
    just paint it on.

    ignore the hole in your heart
    bludgeon the thoughts of being free
    pick up the knife
    and just paint it on

    eyes see all
    but mine know nothing



    - - - -

    hidden soul


    escape your hovel
    spread out the weak hands
    don't turn from the light

    clouded eyes of murky blue
    blind to the truth
    spread the wings that are torn

    count your breaths
    take a step
    show the world

    just exactly who you are

    - - - -


    bits of string



    i'm held together by nothing more than
    my hopes and dreams
    simply brittle strings

    tugged and broken by the shadows
    of fate.


    - - - -


    one sky.

    under the same sky, the moon shines differently
    you see a face
    i see memories



    - - - -

    gilded wings melted in the eyes of god


    we keep trying to fix it--
    better yet, i keep trying to fix it.


    with our eyes to the sky, we can only wonder
    how close we can fly to the sun
    before our wax wings will melt

    but isn't it strange? the closer i get to the sun
    the farther away it seems

    maybe what i want is unattainable
    maybe you just don't see the world like i do

    live like me for a day
    see how i feel
    because the day will come when my wings will melt
    the day will come when your wonderful dream will crumble
    the day those fantasies will fail to become realities
    the day that your golden wings crumble to nothing but the remains of ash
    but by that time
    won't it be funny when you realize that

    i've already fallen too hard to think about fixing you.

    for why should someone held together by tape fix the one made of glass?


    - - - -

    starfaced.


    twinkling brightly
    those eyes of yours could kill
    the crooked smile of yours
    innocence is your biggest crime


    warm embraces
    morphine kisses
    ignore the glare of artificial light
    face the sky


    when i've gone falling
    don't look back
    you're a starfaced beauty
    and i was the frog.