Cowardice

My silence tries but can’t explain the roaring of the waves

With diamond eyes I stop and watch attempts to dig my grave

To save your soul I’ll take it all, let fire engulf my thoughts

To break this mold is dangerous, all that I know is lost

My words will never hinder

Never hurt and never sway

Never silence all the love you have for all that pass your way

I’ll pour my message in a bottle and I will drink it over ice

To numb, to feel, to breathe, to walk the path to empty nights

February

These walls tighten around me as if an assassin’s own piano wire was at my throat

There is no time

I have to choose

I have been here before

The crossroads of yearning and unknowing

My heartbeat echoing itself throughout these empty chambers

I could escape this breathing labyrinth

Grab the mud covered hand that reaches for me

Tread til my shoes run bare and the blood from my heels mix with the clay

Or I could turn back

With what I know and what I don’t know as the true causes for retreat

And shelter myself in the thickest armor forged in the hottest fire

Or

As all history suggests

I will play only the fool

And I will allow these walls to crush me