Ready-to-wear (amour prêt-à-porter)

You move through this world
With serious, graceful intent
A plan to honestly connect
Hoping she would not become
Another object to possess
Items and idols lost
To shatter when they disenchant
Finally realizing the cost

If she could see you now
After all these years have passed
Her eyes weighed with sorrow
Love was driving too fast
One simply can't exit
To walk around and see the damage
When hearts have crashed
You can't afford to fix this
Stranded at last

You put on your clothes
With elegance of style
Minding the way it feels
Past double stitched seams
Which won't easily undo
As buttons of a blouse
Or the fabric of a soul
Crushed under fingertips

In a mirror reflected shells
Conceal our innermost condition
We crumble like castles
Whose walls left standing
Betray the lack of life within
In a measure of a kingdom
Which thrived where we now stand
And in these ruins
We live the best we can

The rose withers (will the thorns?)

Everyone loves it when someone dies
And comes back again
How many times will I tell you good-bye
When you've been gone all this time?
It's confusing the times you've returned
To lose you again
More difficult is facing a future
I imagined you in
Now by candlelight with ouija board
I hope you are there

Have I done something
For you not to write back this time?
The emptiness of missing you
Always catches me by surprise
Like sprinklers on a timer
Going off when I'm nearby
I'm waiting for the moon to full
For safe passage through the night
It's your harshest words I'll recollect
Your silence that hurts more each time

Dead ringer serenade

I ring the bell
Won't someone hear me?
You are up above
Me wondering if I'll see you again?
These walls are way too close
Much like they have always been
I want to wake up again
But already am
Trapped in this box
Just heartbeat and memories
There must be a storm
Happening now

You always believed I wasn't listening
When you used to say something
I was, in my mind just wondering
So many thoughts running through
Unsure which one or how to tell you
Now I'll repeat them all
Because crying is making it
Hard to breathe
Soon I'll be able to pass through
Wood and earth, wind and rain
Will those who talk to ghosts
Hear me when I call your name?

Golden bees

I will summon the sun
And challenge the night
Until the light has won again
I hear how you talk to friends
But you don't talk that way to me
So I'll wait until your voice
Melts dripping with love
Thoughts = rain drops so bright
Dark clouds are comfortable
Until that's all we know
There's a soul inside of me
Won't you fall in?
We will win but golden eggs
Are not so easily found
And golden bees are buried
With ancient kings
Who won't return again