It Never Ends

I know i've gone too far

so i ask 

what will you do

with the scars i carved on you

you won't tell me how it hurts

you won't tell me that i'm cruel

but i know i've gone too far

every time i look at you

what if i make a promise

a promise that is true

written in love letters i address to you

but i think i've gone too far

silence kills our laughter

what will you do

with the scars i carved on you

tell me that i'm cruel

let those letters burn

just burn the love i wrote to you

can you see a happy ending

do you find me cruel

for the love i took from you

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October sends wind to rip colorful leaves from the limbs. I rush through changing woods to find a place among half-buried stone where I watch swirling leaves fall. 

I am riding the dirt bike like a cautious bandit, getting better, bolder, and more secure. Maybe next year I'll wend through rippling autumn on a little motorcycle.

Worry Stone

I drew I love you in the sand 

the waves took it away

you're a shadow 

an ache somewhere 

you're a rock in my heart

a stone i should throw

instead, i drew your name in the sand

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Southbury:

An icy moon hung above their silhouettes -- black satin lovers punched from a sheet of traffic haze at dinnertime on a Tuesday. They'll go home to bake a chicken, toss butter on baby carrots, and fall asleep wound around one another as if they never intend to let go.

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So Says The Sky

As lightning lights and the frightening frights

a storm comes crashing in

on thunder feet and whipping wind

a storm comes whistling in

its wild torrents swelling 

rushing runnels pouring

rain forever whispering

that it's storming once again

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Walking through a lingering summer warmth that these days easily fades, I know she's searching for a place to sleep as shadows steal the day away with an eager dusk. Autumn wakes.

I've got no name for this

a thousand times i think of you

little rips and tears

but who cares

you had that something

sunlight and diamonds

silver spilling off the moon 

you slipped through my hands

but for a little while i was there

you were something slicing through me

a million spinning blades

never mind this ache

never mind this empty hollow

for a little while i was there

with sunlight and diamonds

An Old Friend

He remembers me like i'm still there

says he feels me near

where summer's candy sunsets bled 

but that was a thousand yesterdays

the rest of it was coming

autumn's cinnamon footsteps creeping

toward bad luck and shattered dreaming

back then, when I was there

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Orion fell sideways across a black September sky near dawn, a sign of summer ending.

Never Gone…

That was no gentle love

it hurt me

i keep thinking I gotta forget you

but you tore me inside

you're never gone

you're my cry without echo

a dark love without dawn

i can't forget you

you tore me inside

it's never gone

spent a year without rainbows

couldn't make you come true

you're a song inside

i can't unsing you

you're a bleeding sunset fading

you took something of mine

how can i forget you

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Mature oaks already wear the rusty signs of autumn -- their leaves drying while younger bursts of green cling to summer's emerald and jade. 

She lingers a few minutes less each day. Cooling nights push her warmth away. I love her and I'll miss her. Seasons change.

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Of things I remember for no reason at all

I saw you dancing with her

something broke inside

i should have said i love you

and i do

i do

tell me why my heart breaks

over you

i used to crave your laughter

i still do

were you really with me

or passing through

i think i really loved you

what if i still do

i still do

tell me, are you happy

with someone new

i craved your arms around me

did you really love me

i wish i knew

wish i knew

i caught fire when you kissed me

were you just passing through

tell me that you're happy

but i'm not through

loving you

why does my world break

why does the rain come

when i remember you

now i've got this heartache

tell me why my heart breaks

don't tell me that you're happy

are you happy

i love you

i love you