A Maya Moment

“I’m independent, I am decisive, I’ve done things I’ve hated and I’ve pretended to like it. I’m a big kid…”

“An angel’s bow and arrow is a pebble and a slingshot, I love you as much as possible until I want to stop”

“Golden hour leaves were falling, I love you as you are, I understood the story but I was all wrong for the part”

“He said you were a sweet thing in a tough spot, that you just needed to let your guard down, you weren’t a dragon or an icon…

Man, I wish that I could take his teeth out!””

“You’re an original, he’s a classic; a weapon of mass distraction. When it got bad enough you fell in the habit of mistaking his violence for passion”

“You know exactly where you’re going, your to-do list is an epic poem”

“I’m just like them, I hurt you. I’m just like you, I hurt you. I’m just like them, I love you. I’m just like you at the bottom of your heart…

How do I get down to the bottom of your heart?”

“Falling is the fastest way to make an old friend, it will still be worth even if we’re wrong again”

“I was born with my foot in the door, my mind in the gutter and my guts on the floor, holding the party line, embarrassed all the time”

“I buy booze for the Ivy League with my television salary, they think they look up to me…

Hah!”

“Pink matter, dark matter, glass shattered, corporate ladder, cake batter, splatter paint, patron Saint, all this pain…”

“I know you didn’t get to do everything you wanted to, you leave your body, just one more ice cream scoop out of your brain”

“So self conscious, awareness was the catalyst, I’m scared, I close my eyes and picture this, summer corn, a tea tree toothpick, a song that make you wanna make music”

“I don’t want to cry in your t-shirt ever again, my anger was a compliment, I like how your brain works, magical thinkers trying to be friends”

“Trying to teleport back through the telephone, this airport lounge looks a lot like…”

“When it rains I feel like a kid in car, the streetlights and the satellites blur with the stars”

“Can you keep a secret without telling a lie? Can you go to bed without saying goodnight?”

“Come for scallops, come to hear our song, come if you’re in awful bad trouble, come if you’re certain you don’t belong…”

“Taken with the current to the sea, the tide disrupting desperate dreams, my belly empty, my body weak, I had no sound, no way to speak”

“Pounded the pulse I couldn’t finish, didn’t hear a splash or feel the cold, was full of bubbles for a minute, turned to ice then cycloid scales of gold”

“See, a free man can be relied on, trusted not to let go of the bike, nothing sticking his feet to the ground, no one holding the string to his kite”

“I imagine my mom and dad loosely necking in the back of a taxi cab, I’d give everything I’ll ever have to see them happy, kissing just like that. Oh, I can watch it in the movies; I don’t want to see it that crafted and clear…”

“I cook and I clean now, I do different things than I used to do, feel I’m always rinsing dishes, I load them and I think about you”

“Drink up all the darkness, choke on the moon in your mouth. Drink up all the darkness, I know you did it for show. I watched you swallow the moon and now your belly glows”

“Did a lot of talking, unnaturally awake, you said it makes you feel sad to watch me make mistakes”

“I combine the weight of breathing with the active morning birds, my weakness is believing in imagination of yours”

“Calling, calling out to my inner appalling monster, she is braving, braving…

Saving… me… from you”

“I want my mind fresh even when my body’s rotten, I want to know more than you have forgotten. I’m not your flower, I’m the pollen”

“A tale of woe, preordained grim from the get-go, time to loosen your grip, let go. I know, I know”

“Angry, angry, now I see you’re angry at me, I never said that you could teach me, leave me, leave me…”

“Oh dear, my dear… there’s nothing to say, plug your lil ears and I’ll fade away…”

“Sticky little words. they heal and they hurt, never really work, they feed the birds…”

“Whispering inside my red house whilst all the adults were asleeping, I guess Thérèse is just for me, a quiet I keep on keeping”

“Please don’t forgive me; it’d be a pity after all of that to watch me come crawling back”

“I don’t need anyone to hurt me, I can do that myself”

“I glow in the dark, you can take me apart, me apart…”

“Now the sun’s on my face and it’s burning my eyes, now I’m running in place and I’m falling behind, It’s cool in the shade of your shadow divine..”

“I’m grazing clouds with my fingertips, talking to loud but having fun with it, thinking about your innocence…”

“Sucking on a summer cherry, when you called I bit hard into the seed”

“Instead I found a soundbite of someone I love saying something mean and hard”

“I’m grateful for everything you put me through, it’s the only reason I’m any good to talk to”

“Does… she… hold… a… candle… to… me?”

“From the crowd below the blokes burst out simplistic “She can’t be herself!”, “She’s gone ballistic””

“Light a fire, live without it, have a dark thought and tell me all about it”

“A little creature born of joy and mirth, loving without the help of anything on Earth”

“You may have more to teach me but what haven’t I learned? Listening is easy but learning is earned”

“I’ll try to make my menace into someone you’d adore”

“I don’t wanna be a menace anymore, what would a menace be good for?”

“When you’re bleeding from a bite, or burning basking in the light, you see really anything can break you”

“The Earth is still spinning, I promise nothing’s wrong, you’ll like it when we’re dizzy, you see what’s really going on”

“There are people you can find in that secret peace of mind when you feel that no one knows you”

“Feeling tired, so tired and lonely, trying to believe kind words you told me”

“Feeling dumb or at least unlearned under a pile of books I am burdened”

“So here I will declare it in a low but desperate cry, I wanna hold you like soft water holds the sky”

“If I could I would kiss you, the body doesn’t lie, I’d hold you like soft water holds the sky”

“If I were really here, looking at you beaming, if I were really alive could I make it through every day dreaming”

“I’ve got options, I’ve got time, but I am so impatiently giving them away for free”

“No one is animal enough to take up the space in my body, traded love in for a hobby”

“No one is animal enough to take up the space in my mind that I don’t want to occupy”

“Woe is me, I’m black and blue, at least I always tell the truth”

“I prefer my dreams of you to anything you’d ever do, so please don’t talk or play or move before I have the chance to abuse you”

“I cannot ask to borrow what I can’t bare to lend”

“I’ve seen how swiftly thoughts can collect into ghosts, when you should fear them most”

“It’s tactless, it’s a test, it’s just Thérèse…”

“Everything is new to me and I am new for no one”

“Don’t know why the hell I’m here if I’m not here for you”

“Squeeze my hand, you won’t feel a thing”

“I wish you weren’t around to be my reason to live”

“I hate the way you treat me like I’m just one of your characters”

“Anything you could say about me, you can trust I thought it first”

“I don’t know what’s so funny but no one’s laughing, no one’s laughing now”

“You’ll be right over, take my feet out of the fireplace”

“I’m sorry, I want you,

I promise I love you”

“Members of a secret order, kingdom of the Golden Fleece”

“You’re absolutely loved, absolutely free”

“You struck the chaos angel aiming at a lost balloon, she was perched upon a lamppost, singing in an old ruin”

“I want you, I love you,

I promise I’m sorry”

“I never promised to come home, you never promised me you’d wait, but a promise is a play thing guaranteed to break”

“You called it cinematic and took a picture with your eyes”

“I’m opened like a lotus, enlightened and completely hopeless”

“You can make plans for the aftermath or try to make your favourite person laugh”

“Don’t let them tell you how to feel, you don’t believe in the big idea…

Hey, what’s the big idea?”

“All intelligence is artificial, we’re just making love on a ballistic missile”

“Shut up, I’m so tired, you’re always right, the world’s on fire”

“I meant not now, not never, I can make you feel better in the morning”

“If you’re okay, then I’m okay”

“Childhood is over and it wasn’t enough”

“I’m sorry and I love you, all we can do is try”

“I need you, I need you… I wanna be alone.

I need you”

“A juggling routine, my fingers on your inseam, doing spells that conjure nothing, finding stretch marks on your stomach…”

“I sit too close on purpose to see if you adjust or hold your ground”

“I try to wait the night out, try to keep the light out, we’ve only the moon left to outsmart, but we cannot want our way out of the dark”

“I’m soory you felt undermined, I’m trying to make a racket in the back of your mind”

“I’ve loved a river like you before, I’m a river too…”

“So long, so long, I’ll see you when I can”

“I am not a coward, I am just afraid of how our new tomorrow will turn to yesterday”

“I cannot hide my cards, dear, can’t even keep them close”

“I opened Sardine Dream Mermaid Bar, we serve most oysters and caviar, leave your seashells in our tall tip jar”

“Some that fall don’t land in bubbles…”

“Oh my God, I gotta slow down now, oh my God, I gotta slow down somehow…”

“Call me crazy crazy crazy!

Crazy crazy crazy…”

“Things will change, they always do, but my heart will stay open for you”

“She bloomed into blue, into blue…”

“I wanna be anything you’ve lost that you might be looking for”

“I kissed my co-star in rehearsal anyway…”

“I say “I’m free tomorrow”, I wanna hear “what should we do?””

“Why do it right when you can do it yourself?”

“I don’t see why you would want me, if I could I would be anybody else”

“I’ve been someone to talk about, I wanna be someone to talk to, I’ve bitten off way more than I can spit out…”

“I was left like coals in leaves and I sparked up in Winter’s breeze, and now I know it’s me who’s missing out”

“Lucy wants to write the next great American novel, she can’t even read the bottle, she says “I might be a genius”

Well, she could be a model…”

“I have nothing to say about love anymore, love is nothing, I am yours”

“I hold the space you made, I’m empty but still hoping”

“Swear I really loved it, love is such a better thing to do”

“Give up, be loved.

Give up, be loved…”