Author Archives: amcc1984

you even remembered the red couch coverand though I never told youyou somehow knew that it was over and you tell me the pain you can see in my eyesthat you know it so wellyou don’t ever know whybut baby, this pain, you shouldn’t knowbaby, this pain, you should’t know at all I drove youContinue reading “red couch”

at first it was when you walked up that hillit blew strongstronger than your will but you are stronger still the wind’s your friendnever your enemyunderstand and make your own historythen you’ll seethen you’ll see… that you can keep looking through the eyes of a childhold onto that wonderhold onto those eyesand I wish youContinue reading “the wind song”

the first thing you taught mewas the importance of geographythe secondthat it means to tell apart other realitiesand when you leftI found in the attic of your now boarded up houseI found your old toolboxtook it to my place and I’ve used it a lot it won’t make…make the clouds just go it helps meContinue reading “A’s toolbox”

though I never planned to say goodbye to youit is happeningit’s happening, it’s all truethings we just took way too long to understandit all slipped through our distracted handsand I never thought this day would ever comenow I wear a new smileand a new calm… and you can’t distract the day from coming backthere’s aContinue reading “backlit”

coffee late at nightcos there’s really a lot to writethe void of days I thought had forever been consignedto another erato another age and timeyet here they come crawlingto torment me every night I’ll have to say sorry at some pointso let’s start nowsorry for being the only way I knew howsorry for not beingContinue reading “the night”

I never pegged myself for a quitterI never pegged you for one, eitherI never stood for just getting byI never stood for just passing the time I’ve been staring into the abyss a littleto find myself at my weakest, brittlewalked too slowlyand woke up devoid of any reason, purpose or choice I despised that versionContinue reading “abyss”

we built a lifethen shot it in the legsand silence lives where once was happinessthe anger of days past looks silly now I wish there was a way back somehowbut I doubt… I miss your skinand everything you wereor could still beif you accessed your own core but you are stubborn, hurt, or feeling freebutContinue reading “where I let go”

leavingI’m leaving in a hurryI’m leaving in a hurrynot coming back tonight runningI’m running from the oppressorI’m running from the taxmanI’ll run but I won’t hide and I’ll be gone within the hourcos now I’ve seen them in the flesh their mindless faces look so dourthey have been fishing in the trash leaving this shitholeContinue reading “leaving in a hurry”

so why so strongI see that you’ve got dignityand strength to last you eternities I fell in loveat first with your defencelessnessand lately with your rugged self you are my bloodbut you’re oh so much more than minethere’ll be no limits if you try and I come from a different timeand maybe I can walkContinue reading “the last page”

with sea salt in your hair, stillthe mildest hint of winterI told you about a place where it’s summer all year ’round, there you want it as a daydreamI want is as a new startwhat matters is you’re asking in plurals ‘you and I are…’ and there will be a day when patting on yourContinue reading “sea salt in your hair”