Thick Skin

Her eyes are elsewhere And all I wanna do is go there Wherever she wanders to To see through the eyes that she sees through To have seen what she has seen A world through eyes shaded green She tells her stories with constant laughter Teasing at her life, hoping that after She is done nobody will question The ever-following acsencion Of pain rising to the surface, she chokes it down Along with tears and years of perfecting the sound Of making it seem like she is perfectly okay But there will always be words she couldn't say A smile that has been stolen away And one tear too many that have been shed in her wake And once you've been brought to your knees that many times, each time is harder to stand We can't finish a movie, and she blames my traveling hands But her soul is a map of emotions near and far And my hands are just a compass searching for her heart That always seems so guarded at times, and others so open Waiting to be the finger around which the...

Her mouth twists when she says okay When I look at her she smiles and looks away And even when she is still, her fingers start to play Intstruments and melodies that no one else can see And I watch as her fingers hypnotize me Dancing around, her fidgeting composing a symphony Of twisted ribs that stick out too far Her heart wild in its cage that has bent and warped the bars That contain it. This is what I believe. A jaded past Of patchwork glass She fills the silence with anything she can With music that disguises how far across this country she has ran To escape a future that she may ave followed blindly Without the guidance of voices in perfect harmony With who she was and who she wanted to be And she says she is intrigued by me But honestly I have never seen someone's eyes burn so brightly With the possibilities of what could be She is strange She is terrifying She is beautiful. She is absolutely everything that a woman should be.

I have admired you from nearby, always just a glance away And yet it seemed there was an ocean between us, a steep wave Could make you lose sight of me, and I you And you would be swept carefully away by new horizons, by old things brought anew And the things I thought I once new about your soul Were just pieces of respect, now joined with lack thereof, all things made whole An image of you that I had not wished to see A resentment, a pain that I thought I had cast away into the arms of the sea So long ago, I remembered a time when I would have preferred to drown To slip beneath the waves and listen to the sound Of darkness closing in on me As steady as the slowing of a heartbeat That once gave me life, gave me breath Could just as well be the very thing to give me death And now I know why they say it is a curse to feel everything so deeply For my heart is as vast as the ocean itself, and I fear it’s just as empty And I can sail my ...

Nothing turned out the best between her and I I left her lonely, and I made her cry It kept me awake at night Thinking about how I stole the light From the one girl that made me smile That gave me new meaning to the style Of living in which I had become accustomed, yes Nothing turned out the best I moved away from her, as I thought I had hurt her so And indefinitely she would turn from me if I tried to soften the blow A heavy swing I took at her heart, and I struck out all the same For now I missed her even deeper, and was forced to blow out the flame I left her to hold the candle, and rekindle when she was ready And when she was I was again afraid of being burned in a hand I knew so steady Nothing turned out the best between her and I But when she walked past, she still caught me eye I came to her with my heartache, and she held the pieces dearly She put them back together with tender love and understanding Not knowing all ...