When Love and Fear Collide

...And it is, tearing me apart times

The trace of our path is being erased, our voices caught and carried through the dark pines, until only silence remains to unearth the moment our hearts turned away.

Words seem pointless and awash at this intersection

Contemplating beyond that fragile reality frozen in time... is like staring through a looking glass as the sun blossoms in the sky, where all the world is warm and bright, and the heavens are illuminated by the blush of dawn

In that sacred breath, all that is felt, all that is seen, blurs the reality of the pain and loss experienced, the consequences following choice and mistake.

All you know is the wonder of the world before you

An Imaginary world? Yes
But a Beautiful World

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The naive glory of innocent love is too soon tainted by the curse of Eden
The warmth of justified and unintentional action disbanded by truth and conscience

The sun implodes into a kaleidoscope of falling stars and black holes, destroying life rather than supplying it

This is the reality beyond the looking glass

Whatever illusions I have given myself to, in this grandeur of unveiling, I am naked before the world, every hidden flaw blatantly exposed and laid bare

I am in the garden, ashamed, covered in the knowledge of good and evil

Precipe

His heart was bleeding dry to change her, bring her back from stone
His fear kept him holding on, but it was love she was begging to let her go

The choice not to quit was losing its grip
An oil ladened precipe, she was prepared to slip

Hoping the novacain would lessen the pain, she was dying to feel
The truth had a way of addressing realities, lacking in appeal

Pinned under the rock, her body entered a state of shock

And cutting herself loose, or letting the life pass on through
Left her evaluating which was the lesser evil to choose

Erase

he who has ears to hear, let him hear...

Was it truly possible to wipe the slate clean
To scrub through the remains of what has been?

I'm told you can take this wretched filth of my sin
And make it white as snow
I'd rather you erase the memories that haven't let go

For a moment could we please forget
You've always loved me, though I've failed every attempt
To live up... to that

Erase the memories of who I've been
The broken melody that I sing
Erase the images that are no longer me
Revive the conviction that you're all I need
Restore the hope to be all you see
Erase me

Were the walls all that was holding me back
When you unshackled the chains, did I even know?

I'm told you can take this shattered heart of stone
And make it beautiful
I'd rather you erase the realities that keep taking hold

For a moment, can we please forget
You'll always love me
Though I walk away without looking back

Erase the memories of who I've been
The broken melodies that I sing
Erase the images that are no longer me
Revive the conviction that You're all I need
Restore the hope to be all you see
Erase me

For a moment, I see no regret
and you love me
With grace that overwhelms
All i lack
Take the memories of who I've been, Heal the broken melodies, let them sing. Break the images i no longer seek. Revive the passion, for you're all i need. Restore the hope to be all you see
Erase me

Solitude

I traveled to the summer shores
In the dead of winter still

I entered the winter wood cold and worn
And there, in the bite of the wind

Encompassed by the echo of empty dunes
Escaped into a hidden hollow for my darkness

Filled with the sweet company
Of solitude