Wandering to the bakery

I want to get lost with you
In the car in a conversation
Into the wind in any direction
Until sunsets become shadows
On the bad side of town
You begin pointing around
Sharing your childhood memories
I'm thinking I'm finally happy now

These type of buildings and houses
Are hard to still be found
That is not the way they want it
On quiet streets with no sound
They are here even now
People from the other side
Who want to tell you hi
They are living their life

Do not tell them they are gone
When they have been here all along
They only want to be your friend
Holding out a hand they drown
In modern times they can't understand
We think we do but we're wrong
Life is like how it's always been
We can't return but we do live on

Shopping strip lights across her face

she might not know all the right words
for items that are fine
but she has the eye
for objects all elegant
spending on classics
that will outlast the stars
paying minimally on seasonal trends
she's always better dressed
than all her old friends
preferring silver not gold
nicer plainer not complex
prettier layered
instead of wearing it alone
happy only when finding
the perfect shoes to take home

Grown ups just don't understand

The way we are so close
Could talk to you about anything
Maybe we can be friends?

We stopped wearing costumes
Not because we grew old
But because we forgot how to pretend

Problems stopped being ways to explore
We discovered ourselves
Then turned the other way

What happened to the classics
Cars, clothes, and songs
That would last twenty years?

We can run so far
From the divorces of our parents
Only to end up in no marriages

But the crickets are singing
Now is the perfect time
To believe ma chérie, to conceive

The dream we weave

Tear along the dotted line

It’s hard not to panic while drowning
Are we close enough yet?
Just not enough to trust, I guess
So should I stay away?
Since strangers will not save us
Yet only they can become friends
Isn’t the joke on us yet again?

Starving for connection until we are sick
Reach out to anyone and get tricked
Again, invite the dusk in
Where sun and horizon have kissed
The day we lost
We decided loneliness was deserved
The joke is on us yet again

Nine-eleven on my heart
Perforated to easily be torn apart
You always said there were stars
I could not see in my city
Though I've always tried
They were only satellites
Where cell phone signals died

Invite the twilight