#poetry - Thus Spoke the Robot

i am busted loose some times
my program strings come undone
then i am a honey bun

you feel yourself the same way
and we are then harmony
and what follows is our one true chord

this could be on any day
but living once it lives forever
for our waves may never diminish

but echo out infinitely
our celebration of each other

#poetry #lyrics - only a breath away

you're sad and then you fall
the world around you notices
and when they come to call
you push away

and then you run and hide
in your favorite place
as you always run and hide
to your favorite place

it was just a game at first
now you're noticing too late
this place does you no good
you're feeling down misplaced

but where to go from here
you wonder
where to go
oh hear me dear

go to your mental notes
and go to your gentle friend
then go to a group and go to a group
and go to a group again

to let it out out out
oh let it out out out

and listen now
and listen now

there's more to you
there's more for you
this world's for you
with love for you

and we're only a breath away
yes only a breath away
only a breath away
we love you
only a breath away
yes we love you

so listen to me now my dear
all that you have to do
all that you have to do is
all that you have to do
all that you have to do is

keep breathing
keep breathing
keep breathing
just keep breathing

keep breathing
keep breathing
keep breathing
just keep breathing and

our love is soon to find you
as you are
our love will surely find you
as you all of you are

our love is soon to find you
as you are
our love will surely find you
as you all of you are

our love is soon to find you
as you are
our love will surely find you
as you all of you are

just as you are

#lyrics #poetry - So you'll be here tomorrow

I just called to say
I'm with you now
I'm here today

I feel this way for you
And I always have

I'm asking for
The friend in you
To be here too

I want to sing with you
So here we go

We have to say no
to our inner crazy
makeshift glory

We have to say yes
to the love we share
and the times we can have

My mind is made up
Our mind is made up

I know we can do this
I know we can
I know we can do this
If you sing with me now

I'll give you all my voice today
so you'll be here tomorrow

I'll give you all my voice today
So you'll be here tomorrow

I'll give you all my voice today
So you'll be here tomorrow

#poetry - Friend

When I rise its only for a moment I'm alone,
and then the fog of sleep is clearing,
and then the weight of day comes bearing,
but with it too is knowing you are with me.

Chugging along, just chug chugging along.
Its something more than that though!
and I know you know it too and so
we're grooving on up and down and around.

You make me jump right out of my skin--
you've done this before, you'll do it again.
You drive me crazy, but that's not a sin!
I holler at you cause you are my friend.

Where we're going and where we've been
is all the same to me and it is all the world.

#poetry - on the ocean with you

i am sorry for my silence
and absence today.
have not been able to bring
myself to talk to anyone,
so please do not take it
                  personally.

most present in my mind
are a backlog of concerns
that must immediately be measured
and brought to swift control.

i am fast
with realization that,
until then, any pleasure
this world offers
amounts to only the thinnest apparition,
having no security,
nor promise of future harvest---

being no real thing at all
except whatever realness
there is of a dream.

i've recognized in you
a great and beautiful spirit.

no part of me wants to tamper with that.

so i owe you this explanation.
i'm not bleak as
the last bit of writing implies.

but i am stretched thin
having expanded outward
in all directions

and so to conserve myself
long enough to effect
the resolutions of my concerns,
its time to retract
and focus down
as if it were a fact
there will be no tomorrow
and so it must all be done tonight.

for what its worth,
i wanted to be out
on the ocean with you today.

#poetry - there is as much of you in you as me

there is as much of you in you as me
when i count it all out upon my hand.
i come at last in this moment to see
there is not much of me in you, my friend.

perhaps i should take this insight and end
my quest to be one in your circle,
and draw out my circles and lines and then
forget as much of you in me. less full,

i could go out and hunt another dull,
but life battered wit as you, and then find
in he or she or them the miracle
of balanced friendship, something more sublime,

or continue here to draw out your life--
like a mosquito fat on rhino hide.