Every tear you shed
Put me on edge
Every time you laughed
If only I knew it would be your last
If only your beauty
Could have stayed

Falling apart
Leaving my heart
Behind
I can not find
My knife
Even in the afterlife
Protect attack
But never attach
Yourself
Leave me be
I’m just a burden you see
The fact I’m still alive
Time after time
Minutes hours days weeks
When will I find what I seek
Love
Something that is long gone
It no longer has a song
My soul
Is just a pawn
Until the end of dawn

I met her
as a child

and fell in love

she was so
tall and bright

she lit the world
and helped me see

and I knew
the sunflower

loved me back

she saw the
brightness

I buried
in my soul

I may not
smile as much

today as I
did then

but I
know the

sunflower still
loves me

The universe,
every cloud,
every flower,
every beautiful and ugly thing,
Want you to live your own life,
To carve your own path,
Even your ancestors
Want you to walk the path of freedom.

To the degree that you condemn others and find evil in them,
You are to that degree unconscious of the same thing in yourself.