Lingering

In goodbye she embraces me slowly and sweet 
Gently caressing me as she kissed my cheek 
Swearing fidelity to promises she won't keep 
And in a moment I'm captivated. 

Her beauty bleeds out past cigarettes
Blonde strands escape her barretts 
Her eyes alight with a love not met
and I'm curiously invigorated. 

A smile holds a balance of dark and light
Reaching friends in lectures turned to fights
A bold love straddling what's true and right 
and I observe the dynamic is complicated. 

She's a woman, feminine yet and still kind
She speaks and moves with a grace in time
Making her marks in memories and minds
...as I find my resistance is devastated. 

A little Sleep and Slumber

 We’re setting our clocks for doomsday and sleeping away our lives. Walking in fear through the worlds shadows, small from mockery by evils despised We’ve chosen to fellowship with death, throwing half a lot in the plate, Seldom giving a second breath to insight that God controls our fate.

We dance in these silhouettes,
drunk on wine and anxiety
Dressed in our best presumptions
and self adorned piety.

We champions ourselves as masters of doctrines,
We mask ourselves in boastful lies
We hide from our ineffectual existence
surrounded by the lost that we despise.

We're setting our clocks for doomsday, and sleeping our lives away.
Choking on plastic identities, damned by all that we didn't say.