When you shut me down,
You shut my whole world down too,
And everything stops.
A Moment of Silence
The world’s talking at me all at once.
All I ask
Is for a moment of silence.
For everything to sink in
And for me to slip out and away.
Far, far away.
So I can escape everything -
The dreadful words and hurtful people -
Who wish to consume me whole and
Expect me to understand it and for it to be okay.
All I ask
Is for a moment of silence.
For me to put my tired mind to rest
And wake up to a better tomorrow -
Where we sing about love and read about miracles
Where skies are never grey and people are never blue.
All I ask
Is for a moment of silence.
Won’t you at least grant me that?
I’ll just be myself.
If you don’t like that, you should
Be with someone else.
It shouldn’t matter
What other people think but
It actually does.
If you had a chance
To live a life away from
Me, would you take it?
I need to let you
Go, yet my heart is longing
For you to stay here.
If I wasn’t so
Head over heels, I’d be so
Angry at you now.
You snatched my heart away
That was okay.
You stole my sleep from me
I just let it be.
You played me for a fool
Yet I still loved you.
But now you’ve taken my identity;
It was all that I had.
How could you possibly
Expect me to not be mad?
If I am the sea
And you’re the sun, could we meet
At the horizon?
If I let the honest words
I’ve been hiding
Escape my lips,
Will you allow the ones
That will send me
Flying straight to cloud nine
Slip from yours?
You are a monologue of my thoughts.
If I tell you that
You mean a lot to me, you
Better believe it.
The sweetness of love
Flows from your precious lips and
Through your fingertips.
The bitter defeat
Crashes through your saddest thoughts;
Ends up as teardrops.
Funny how you’ve both
A devilish smile and a
Baby’s innocence.
When a song speaks to
You, it becomes something more,
Something beautiful.
