Here, with me

The world’s gone crazy outside your door. 

Their spirits enraged.

What’s the latest craze. 

Worse than kids, think it’s all okay. 

Push away any real problems,

just to think you’ll be okay   

You can only swallow lies for so long 

before you’re full of regret.

Only take in so much garbage

before it fills up the compartments.

Starts coming out of your mouth too. 

The whole world’s gone crazy

right outside your door. 

They rage and rage and rage

against the theory d’jour.  

Mad in a circle, rotating.

Mad about the lies, they’re making. 

Pass the buck, don’t give a cluck. 

Fight the ghost in your closet but

Not what’s really fighting you. 

Mad that you’d suggest that I do.

Climb over the fence,

draw a line in the sand.

Don’t forget your heart too.

Know how to make a mark.

You don’t have to play by the rules

of the spirits that rule.

Don’t make me.

Please just let me stay

Wrapped here, trapped here,

In all these pretty lies.

I don’t want to change 

what suits me so well.

Tell me lies.

Let me stay.

I’ll hate you if you say 

anything else

but what I want to know and  

How I want to know it.

Don’t make me change.    

I’ll stay right here,

Love me just like I am.

Let me lie here, in these miserable ties.  

And I’ll despise 

Anything that tells me otherwise.

Don’t you try to open my eyes.

A waker is always sleeper-despised.

Tell me lies,

let me lie.

Here in the trash that  

I think suits me just fine.

Pour me some wine 

It’s all on my mind.

just let me go

Glitter isn’t gold or

So I’m told

But in this hand I hold, 

some memory of where

I’ve seen some.

But maybe that was just some dirt.  

So I’ll search for more.

Bake it in a cake,

put it on my face,

drink it in a cup,

But it won’t fill me up.

Shoveled in like dirt,

And inside, it still hurts.

Make it go away.

Maybe I should pray.

But what then, would I say?

Is someone even listening?

Besides the me that I despise.

I’ll just laugh at myself.

I just need some help.

Someone hold me please.

I can’t find my knees.

Please please.

I’ll just close my eyes and

When I awaken,

Maybe it’ll all be gone away.

Maybe I should pray…

I’m not sure if it’s sleep I really need.

I think I’d like to wake up,

crawl out of this dream.

It seems more like a nightmare.

I’ve got some change to spare.

I could sell my soul, you know,

for just a little more,

a bowl.

Pass the remote.

I’m barely afloat.

Tell me what I need;

I can’t find my knees.

Who could I please. Please? 

I’m down on these knees.

Empty, and unseen.

What’s  this now, I see?

A  light shining down on me.

It’s so bright, and clear.

There’s nothing now to fear.

Not when you’re here.

I’ll trade in all my sorrow

for just a slice of that peace, 

that pie.

Beyond my whole life, then, 

this whole lie.  

It’s not just in the sky.

This hope that I can see

now,

that gold that I kind of remember.   

Here it’s found, 

Just where I was bound, 

I feel it now.

I’m getting free.

It’s not just some harp and cloud, 

It’s for here and now.

A kingdom that’s coming and come.

There’s work here to be done.

But you’ve already won.

Help me now, I see.

I’m tired of laying, heavy and defeated,

fighting words and the world

from my bed.

You’re here, now.

And you’re how  

And here I am, too. 

There’s some things yet to do,

It all starts here

with You.

You’re waking me up,

no more playing drunk.

Awake, now, and waking.

I see now.

I’m not alone.

There’s a call out from my phone.  

No, maybeit’s coming from my heart.

This mind control is losing its grip on me.

I just want to be free.  

How I’m flying now, with you

My heart no longer full of fear

It’s only Love  here with you. 
Only here with you, my Love.