Seconds stretching into years without you
Moments feeling vast, enormous, infinite
How much time did we spend together?
That must not have mattered
We make our nights into lifetimes
A biography already written
From just being together

Doomed and rolling and whirling and spinning
Orienting ourselves
To stand and to walk
Then to run and to create
Without the slime of our ancestry
Weighing us down

Making mistakes
And hitting dead-ends
That make us wish we were dead
Because change hurts so much
Observing without judgment
Our selves and our paths
Accepting consequences
And learning from pain

Resisting impulses
That habits are made of
To valiantly reach for what lives in our dreams
A change of reality
A break from the past
A chance at a future
That feels truer to you

Paying for information
Seems antiquated and it’s not even outlawed yet
The soup of my mind
Thoughts swimming
Collected by the brain I grew and managed
Stored and retrieved by processes I hardly control
What’s yours is now mine
And mine, yours
We’re becoming more connected
That’s obvious
My eggs live outside my body now
And my life grows in other beings
And soon you will know my thoughts
Before I have a chance to rearrange them on the internet
Then it will be so many more words
Than Facebook or Twitter could hold
We might as well give up
And start listening for frequencies
We’ll be one big buzz
Without the joy and drama
Of imperfect communication
An “Uh-Oh-Om”
When we all come together

Now I live among the stars
Diving into them at night
Headfirst on a big box bus
Lots of hills to call my own
People pay to walk my streets
Go where few have gone before
Take the road less traveled-by
No longer strangers
All are neighbors
Living in each other’s dreams
Buying pleasure by the quarter
Feeling guilt for overload
But too much work won’t bring you joy
Since joy is always there to seize

Striving and driving and thinking too much
Obsessing, controlling
Not sure when to move
Emotions and thoughts
A million impulses
More words to explain how we ought to behave
And what’s happy?
And are we happy?
And do we deserve to be?
And are we marching off to nowhere
Or sleeping just too long
And would more trophies on the wall
Require more or different effort?
Life was structured
Now freestyling
Not sure how to win at this game

Sitting on a pile of colorful clothing
Legs crossed
Skirt on
Plucking petals off a daisy

Waking up in this world
Touching a few of the colors that swirl
You make my heart race
Owning what you’ve always wanted
Just as easy as changing your mind
Can’t make you smile unless
I’m dancing to a song I like
Can you hear the music?
Or are you still doing what you’re told?

Standing on the plateau
Surveying the grandeur
Of the valley of my desires
Blooming now in awe-inspiring detail
I look around and nod
It is good

I’m that irresistible creature
With an insatiable love for the dead
Squeezing in between you and your laptop
For a little cryptic lap dance
Lighting a torch in the cave of your heart
Are you in there?
Hello?
Am I the only one on this train
Who wants to live while I’m alive?
Guess I’ll keep throwing pebbles into
Black pools until one day
I’m rocked by the waves I get back

I fell deep in Love *with* you
Now I’m so in love with Love
I just wish that you would join me
Tell your heart to meet me there…