Free Yourself

Don't look back now
Don't look back over years gone by
Their gone
And now its time to leave

Don't look back now
You have to let your childhood go
And then you'll find a peace within

And you'll free your mind to sleep
And you'll free yourself of me

Don't be afraid
You have so many choices
Hold your head up high
And say "good-bye"

No second thoughts
You have a future waiting
Take my hand and I will show the way

Free your mind to sleep
Free yourself of me
And you'll free yourself to sleep

Yup.... this is me.

I am Unfolding

Does it feel like we've never been alive
Because it seems like its only just begun

To find myself I sort through the wreckage of my past
To lose it all you have to do is lie
The policy is set
And we are never turning back

The ultimate defense is to pretend
All I am is a shadow of a man
Its time to set myself on fire
Maybe the light will draw some friends

I am unfolding

My Soul Is Shook

I feel so unashamed
Yet tongue tied
I am sickened by what I have made
But somehow satisfied

My soul is shook
I'm up all night
Oh the tole has been took
And now I am far from your sight

The air is clear
On the dawn of my life
The time is drawing near
To all I swear I am fine

Over Again

Nothing is ever what it seems in this place
So you can't take anything for granted
And don't tell me that the truth hurts little girl
Because it hurts like hell

That's right
Its not fair, but that's only the half of it
Here there ain't no doors
No light, with no room to sit

And the beginning has no end
Torture calls in this winter wind
When peace is found
We all must start over again

If Travel is Searching

If travel is searching
And home is what has been found
I am not stopping
I am going hunting

I am the hunter
I'll bring back the goods
I am on my way

I thought I could organize freedom
How American of me
This is who I am
You figured it out didn't you

You could smell it
So you left me on my own
To complete the mission
Now I leave it all behind

I'm going hunting
I'm the hunter

You just didn't know me

I Pray for Resolution

The words flow
Decisions made
Ideas mine
But the inspiration dies

Dreams of hanging on
Dreams of getting well
Splinters in the eye

Bones will never rest
It was never up to me
And yet I pushed until it broke

I love the open road and all that it suggests
We are wagon dust
Weeds of infidelities

Always follow along and never question why
In a wooden house, immovable and silent
Forever lost in time

And thru the sleeping streets
Night bound and dreaming
No shadows have we

Now my gates are high
My friends are even higher
A garden in my mind with stars that linger on

My heart is pointed down but my spirit pointed up
Behind this paneled door
I play my guitar and live those lonesome notes

I often speak of you
But the you is always me
Because when i speak of me
Its me I ask of you

So let there be no truth
Just trickery in rhymes
A child is who I was
A child is how I'll die

Dreaming

She left her shoes out on the beach
She left my dreams just out of reach
She left her footprints in the sand
She was a bird right in the hand

I met a girl that made me laugh
She left a faded photograph
I thought I had hear her siren song
I sang along but I was only dreaming

Visions in my head
Talking in my sleep
Turning in my bed
But I was only dreaming

I met a girl that talked in rhyme
I met a girl who took her time
I saw the ocean in her eyes
I saw myself unrecognized

And all the stars up in the sky
Fell down like rain and made me cry
I held the world right in my hands
I held her close

But I was only dreaming
Life was so complete
But I was only dreaming!

Riddles In The Dark

The softness in the snowfall
The silver shining stars
The moonlight off the hoods of passing cars
Remind me of you most of all

I fear I've passed into a dream
Strayed somehow from thought and time
But here, there is no time
And everything is whatever we want it to be

Two shadows chasing each other in a night sky park
Slow-motion fireflies
Holding their reflections in your eyes
And laughing sweet to riddles in the dark

A dream it may be
And the morning sun will wash all but memory away
For now I cling to this dream before it strays
And doing so, I hold you close to me

End

If death came knocking
Would you send it a way
If that frozen hand stretched for you
Would you keep it at bay

What if you could end it all
What would eternity and judgment hold
When silver trumpets call
And body grows old

Silver Scars

Mele writes words like chem trails
All seem to stay
Like damage done by winds strong gales

This summer and its storms
Drag deep into me
I want to give you some insight
And be yours tonight

And into the uncertain
We hide
To all our fears
We cast aside

Wooded depths and secret stars
Suns cruel torch
And the moons silver scars
All given us
Given our time
To fall in love
To share in rhyme

I sing silent poetry
A form or soverin intimacy
And you take for yours
All I give... willingly

Vulture

Ripples beat the shore of the river he loves
As he waits for instructions from above
So cold is this summer night
Filled with doubt and delight

These forests hold no sanctity
And deeply he holds this reverence for thee
Held under some spell
Is it spirit, vapor... He cannot tell

Confessing all the secret things to fire and rocks
He begins to damn time, to damn thoughts
Of dream and sleep
Like a thief, its you he seeks

Time is a game
Time is a myth
Space is irrevelent
Longing for darkness to quit

Like soil to rivers he's quick
Words from others are venom spit
Because deeply he needs
An Arizona sunrise he pleads

For now Idaho is all he knows
For him Idaho is all that flows
Through vines mixed in culture
But circling like a vulture
He ponders anything, to him, that draws him closer

Who Are We, Who We Are MT

Creativity flows from within me
Underscored by pure sincerity
And somehow I feel I fail in connectivity
To all that surrounds me

I've used hammers made out of wood
I have played games with pieces and rules
I've deciphered tricks of the mind
But now you're gone
I haven't figured out why

I've come up with riddles
And jokes about war
I've figured out numbers and what they're for
I have understood feelings
And I've understood words
But how could you be taken away

And wherever you are
And wherever we might go
It don't seem fair
Today just disappeared

Together like we were never apart
Every inch between seems light-years now
Oh we must save up every line
Damn, they are all gone now

And wherever you are
And wherever we might go
It don't seem fair
Today just disappeared

Distance

If beauty sits the child's kiss
Of laughter I amend
Can you catch her if she runs?
With this I would share with you
All of this count to no end

Behind your sealed eyes you miss
All that I've done for you
Will you catch me when I run?
If timing play evident
What will you say when you're late?

Stay with me and fall asleep
Pray to God for no bad dreams
Stay with me and fall asleep
Pray to God for no bad dreams

Here... I'm still waiting here, my dear
For one kiss from you
So here... I'm still waiting here, my dear
For one kiss from you

Moonlight

Can you not feel it
This rhythm, this movement
I can, while dancing under the moonlight

Oh its three o'clock in the morning
And I am on the streets again
And somehow I couldn't care less
So damn this seamless shame

The trees all smile
The moons a mess
Its tears fall in fear of not being mortal
We are mortals most of all

Get involved
Show a smile to shame the ages
Be mine tonight
Oh dance with me in the moonlight

I want to believe in you dear

Close your eyes until the sunlight dies
In your head a thousand stars
Through the darkness, you can see the light
And if they steal your life, your heart is still in mine

I want to believe in you and I heard you
Your song you sing, the truth, there's no other
I want to believe in you dear

There's a life I hide, well I tried to disguise
And I could take you a million miles away

I want to believe in you and I heard you
Your song you sing
A truth, there's no other
I want to believe in you dear

On Sunday I made a mess
All my mistakes
My God's speed be with you

I want to believe in you and I heard you
Your song, you sing
A truth, a lover

I want to believe in you
May God's speed be with you

Frail

So discarded
So just shoved away
Like you never wanted
Anything to do with me anyway

I tell you about my situations
And all that is there to be seen
And all you have to say is
I am tired, hope to see you again

You were my life vest
The one who would never let me down
But here I am now
Feeling a steely knife digging down

If I was not so weak
If I were more man than mortal
I would be someone to keep these things at bay
I would be someone, to whom you'd have more to say

I cannot believe it would be you
I could not have imagined you this way
It was so easy for you to write me off
To serve this cold dish my way

I am reeling now
Trying hard to grasp some sense of me
All of which invested in a friend like you
But tonight you have woven a tight weave of my emotions and me

At the moment I needed you
You gave way
The wind was lost of your sails
And now I am left alone
And frail

Meet Me

What if we could
Put our lives on hold
And meet somewhere inside of the world
I would meet you
Would you meet me?

On a park bench
On a sky-scrape on a mountain
Oh yeah whatever it takes
I would meet you
Would you meet me?

So go on
Go on, be around star
Shooting star in my eyes
Look in my eyes

So what if we could
Where would we go
If you felt right now
Would you let me know?

Its like the last chance
For a first dance
Like a sunrise
that's somehow exists

I would meet you
Would you meet me?

L.M.C.

I miss her so much it wakes me every morning
The thought of touching her shakes me without warning
And how easily I go to her scares me sometimes
But we are connected, our souls, in the dead of the night

I now know where I belong
And its with you, in your arms
Gladly enchanted by your natural charms
Find your lips and float away

There in the midst of it, so alive, our souls are one
The moon will shine for you and I knowing we just begun
I want to taste the sweat and salt of your skin
And if this were true, all my dreams could then begin

Sometimes I medicate to fight the doubting
So tired of all the fights, screams and shouting
I feel the only thing I have learned
Is I want a life now on my own

Natural Cycle

If we consider Humans to be a part of the Ecosystem, then that means we are part of nature. If that is true, then isn't all that we are doing considered to be "natural"? Now, if all of this is true, then Global warming, deforestation, and the exponential growth of the human population are all natural functions just the same as Salmon spawning.

As I see it, if you believe all of the aforementioned then we must recognize that the Human race is heading either for change or destruction. And if you do not agree with the idea that all we do is a natural function of Earth processes or it’s Ecosystem, then you are faced with the question of who, or what put us here or created us. In short, you must face the real possibility that there is a God or creator.