The Quiet Days
Rainbow
Salvation
Smoke and Blood and Sex and Beer
Snowflakes
Standstill
StretchingTheTether
Summer Ambiance
Sunday Morning Rain
Taxation or Masturbation
Tethered
Thanksgiving
To Daddies' Girl
Waiting Here
Walking Toward The Light
War and Power
The World is Changing Colors
You are my Compass

The Quiet Days	Top
Morning comes singing softly as the chirping birds Bringing a sense of freshness with the new day Time eats away at the day until afternoon has arrived With the hot sun and the mid day ambiance Night creeps up crouching behind the sun Ready to overthrow the sun falling off the horizon Shadows turn about the earth marking time's descent Until finally shadows overcome the sunshine And the moon's smile glows across space time All the while people work all day Building and creating and serving each other Wasting the sunshine the quiet days pass

Rainbow	Top
It's hard to stay positive In the midst of a roaring storm But put up your umbrella And walk through the rain When you get to the destination There'll be a rainbow in the sky A reminder of the rain that passed

Salvation	Top
Our hands are made of flesh, Imperfect as they mesh, But reaching out above, With peace and love, His spirit reaches through, To refresh and renew, In Jesus' saving grace, The sinner's dying face.

Smoke and Blood and Sex and Beer	Top
The St. Louis arch, The patriarchal parch, From the long drive behind, And the freezing cold line. Lick the Lollypop Lust Kills, Twist backward binomials, Multiply murder and Christ, Add the E to the feist, Live the life of the lover, Crystalize innocent eyez, Fear the weeper and the lies, Kill the hater of the killer, Spin around and pound the miller, Blame the brandy for the burn, Rape the bottle until its dry, Watch as the children die, Growing old is growing down, Towering down toward the ground, The end is near to food and cheer: Smoke and Blood and Sex and Beer.

Snowflakes	Top
Snowflakes dance down Like glitter fluttering, Diamonds sparkling the moon light. Christmas lights glow soft, Music floats lifting souls, Warming the chill of the night. But nothing compares to the love seeping out, Of a heart broken down but not broken, Still strong and singing out... I'll always love you for who you are, So warm and caring, so close to me but so far, On the skin of my heart is branded a scar... Not even the magic of Chrismas in the air, Can mend this sore jagged tear, But the touch from your hand, And the stars in your eyes, Could melt all the icebergs, And outshine the sun rise.

Standstill	Top
Sitting in my dark apartment Shades are down at noon Silence creeps into my ears Time will vanish soon... As minutes turn to wasted hours I can not track lost time It doesn't really exist For it's an indecipherable rhyme

Stretching the Tether	Top
Tethered to the moon I jump and I swing Up and away My body I fling The moon is my madness I try to escape The tether ties me Sticky like tape I might not be able To loosen my bind But the harder I jump The further it is behind

Summer Ambiance	Top
the electric buzz of the fan reminds me that summer is near and although the heat of the third floor is sweltering i anticipate summer's return

Sunday Morning Rain	Top
sunday morning rain sparkling on the pavement can not wash away the pain left over from the night before.

Taxation or Masturbation	Top
You anti-conformists say: Order is a border, I have no brother, I need no other, I'll do what I want to do. But the ABCs going CBA, Would totally mess up the way, We alphabetized bibliographies, Works Cited, or whatever they may be, So next time you say your ABCs, Say CBA, cry anarchy! Order is not a border. Now I told you; Give me a quarter. (Or go fuck yourself)

Tethered	Top
I am floating on the moon, Tethered to the ground. I just want to break loose, Why can't I be free?

Thanksgiving	Top
We may be locked up And we may be in jail But we've still got our blessings Like phone calls and mail And school and visits And books and ice too We have our family and friends And our futures to renew We have our faith and our strength Our love and our lives As long as we're thankful Thanksgiving still thrives

To Daddies' Girl	Top
Daddy called me today; He had a hurt in his voice. Daddy called me to say Life left him no choice; I guess we always were Daddy's little girls. Once I spit out my gum Like a purple heart on the ground, And it stuck to the soul of his shoe: His cowboy boot that walked 1000 miles But left us behind with my other Daddy, So I spit but my gum was gone, And he loved me any ways. I guess we always were Daddy's little girls. So I followed his footsteps To mountains and freedom west. I found my grape gum, And I stuck it back in my mouth. A little dirt never hurt the cowboys: A proverb my other daddy told me once. I guess we always were Daddies' little girls. Two-Daddies-Girl, I love you too.

Waiting Here	Top
Waiting here, Listening to alternative blues, The circulation in my feet, Is cut off by my black shoes. The make-up is fading fast off my face, My blouse is made up of sheer black lace. Waiting here for you, Don't know what to do... I cleaned up the room for once, But I still feel like a big dunce. You'll want a back massage, I'll want you outside... Or in the garage. But I still love you. I still do. It's been three short years, Full of good times and many beers, Many hopes and many fears, A lot of loving looks, A few childish jeers. But we live and we learn, We'll die and we'll see, What kind of life did we earn? Let's try our hardest, And as the Beatles sang, just Let it be. And you still love me, I feel it when you hold my hand, Because you're just a man, And you don't like holding hands. Because you're a just man, It feels nice when you hold my hand. Please be here for me. I promise until my last stinky breath, I'll be here always. In all ways... Untill I die face down in the grass, And then you'll slap my ass. I'll laugh the way dead people do; I'll just always look down on you.

Walking Toward the Light	Top
Walking a straight line, Towards the light of virtue, Over my shoulder follows, A shadow black with bane. Once I walked in darkness; A reputation I attained. As strongly as tar sticks, My shadow's bound to me, And while it always follows, In dark I could not see. So the only way to lose it, Would be to dance at night, Though it would still stay, Seen in the scrutiny of light. I choose to walk in day, Though my shadow tags along. When I look over my shoulder, I walk away from wrong. My past will always be there, From it I can not hide. So stomp on my shadow; But on I stride with pride.

War And Power	Top
War and Power, Savor the sour, Minute to the hour, Near nuclear shower, Burn our flower. What's War? What's Power?

The World is Changing Colors	Top
Nothing seems right tonight Like a Star has fell away And left a hole in gravity To misalign the atmosphere And change the color everywhere. It's like the grass is blue and the sky is green. The trees are orange and the moon is mean. The air feels a little heavier, and the ground softer to the touch... Maybe the world is caving in, and the earth is going to bust. So many things to say But they are eating me away Inside my black hole where my heart has let go Now my lips have meshed together And my secrets are forever.

You are my Compass	Top
You are my compass, I am your guide, Together we'll find, Our dreams collide. Remember that night, On top of the sand, Below the moon, Holding my hand. Those great green eyes, Looking at me, Reassure my soul, And set me free. Inside your arms. All is still. Your love transcends, A silent thrill.