You're either right on or dead wrong
when everything she says
is a samurai's katana
cutting into your conscience
like a fresh fish
being prepared as sushi
for a six star hotel

a haiku in hell

October blood
Weather vanes
The sun still blazes
no sign of rain
Sunshine machine
Cranked up too high
If I could see
in infrared
I would know
you lied

The executive decision to take my soul back

I fell asleep in the breath of war
I woke up to the sound of loosened lips
Telling secrets that were never secret to begin
If they knew the truth
They would never let you in
Youd take a step in the door
Your heart would stop and you'd bleed on the floor
The only reason you need my kiss
is because it's the only antihistamine
The closest call to what your doctors call
Your Cure

Risen in Phoenix

Arizona
feels like a new home
reminds me of the wild west
cowboys and indians on horses
the way the rocks sit on the earth
i could live on/in one
hoping for LA
city of angels
im lost
forgive me father
i was born with my heart already in cali
waiting for me to come and collect

The Lament of Orpheus: A Letter to Eurydice

Our lives are movies in which we all portray

a character living in a vault who has been betrayed

try to keep the last of myself from ever being frayed

my soul split into pieces that i wish i could trade

this world is not all as it seems to be

we're playing roles that we wish we could flee

i'd tell you everything i hate about this scene

but i can't because you won't listen, it's not that i don't have it in me

if only you had the key to unlock this chains in my chest

i'd make the most of myself and give you all the rest

hibernate like a busy bee living in a honey nest

but even though i do all i can for you, you've never been impressed

this life is so routine, a robot could suffice

wanna dig inside my skin and remove this device

salt the wounds til i feel fine, cool myself on ice

but the worst part of this is my emptiness is your only vice

put me like a moth to the flame

like a sinner with his skin etched by shame

a tattoo inside of you that you cannot change

i have one last shot at you but you're too far out of range

hold me up, i'm falling down

throw me away, let me drown

it's easy for you to stay in this town

you and your army have torches

burning me to the ground

here i am, it's the afterlife

i don't know who i am

while back on earth you rejoice

you couldn't give a damn

carry around your prized knife

that slaughtered this young lamb

the knife that took away my voice

and took away my land

hearts hanging from tongues dimly lit

I remember

when you could make me move

oh the nights

of being stuck to your hands

like a beartrap

flypaper stuck to sighing skin

aching for new life

this old oxygen's gone stale

and i'm rethinking the strategy

to breaking down my barriers completely

hack this matrix

crack the code

til we all see it plain as day

me and you can feel it

our veins flooding

and all the blood swimming

in the coast

of the cost of this instability

life isn't what it seems

until the lights go out

and the strobelight streams

fill my lungs with the smoke in this club

and there's nowhere else on earth

where you can make this kind of love

i am one with you tonight

and the higher i get, the brighter the light

approaching God without a care

it's just midnight, it's only life

rave(n)

Traced across a dancefloor

in an outline of neon and strobe

slowmotion heartbeat

and i see every little move you make

and every breath you take

illuminated in cascading lights

red yellow green blue

you can rest when you're dead

but tonight sunlight's coming to a head

peeking out over the clouds

5am feels good in my head

i just never wanna go to bed