A Silent Remembrance - August 14, 2004


In the days we played,
the ways we made casual romance is a stance,
a perception between the lines,
reading the fine print of our circumstances,
a glance to something we never had a chance to be,
to see and be the dream.

I wrote the script with you,
I knew it before time had a name
I dreamed the selfsame thing and it became our enjoyment,
rousting us up from bed,
sleeping deeply.

A love deeper than heaven makes a soul between my ribs.
Reality is what you make it.
A grip on me so strong you can break it,
take it and run.
Another boundary to overcome on the horizon.
Twenty years of boredom and it found me.
Grounded me.
Took me on a leap of faith and bound me.
Responsibility
Respectability
People die for the sanctuary
You never heard of me but I thank you for the moment

And now we’ve grown up.
Take the past behind us.
Love haunts us with a vengeance.
A silent remembrance.

Things to be and always stay.
There is no going away from eternity.
Our history is the scepter to guide us forward.
Riding against the waves,
overcome and drown me.
Complacency is the easy way.
The end of the tunnel,
white light is all you see,
shrouded in hypocrisy.
Open your eyes and drift away into the sunrise.

The fear consumes us.
Love is innumerable.
Count the ways and days.
Time forgotten on the waves since we’ve spoken.
Drifting as we are shown to a future we would never have chosen,
so similar in the past.
So familiar as we walk toward…

Talk to me.
It has been too long of silence.
I heard murmurs of your existence but I couldn’t believe them.
Something gripped me after I saw you.
Panic stricken.
Held beyond belief, grief was not an option.

An unspoken hunger for optimism.
Illegal, and immoral.
Something I cannot quarrel,
the intent of winning holding sacred, keeping silent.

Bring with you memory.
Things that have been,
visions of a world so far away to me.
Yet closer, I am a loser.

Lost my mind to find my soul.
In history is written our trail.
The Trial binds us in walls.
Reality is lost.
Something fabricated makes the cost of living.
Burdening our very existence,
ease of living forsakes the masses.

I love you more than all the hype.
Time has brought us closer,
a love we couldn’t foster matured us.

Now I know the way,
clearer than daylight it blinds me.

I am ignorant and humbled by the knowledge.
Jumbled thoughts persuade me to continue,
walking forward into the foggy horizon.
Stumbling into a cloud overcomes me.
You are within me, and I welcome you forever.
Deeper than sex can walk, we have melted together.

Timeless we created a child before we knew it,
grew it to independence,
and now it controls us.
A love so strong we cannot explain it.
It talks in silence and I am captivated.
The future changes as it is created.