Sword and Flower.

I think the image would be more powerful with a rose, but those are expensive.
Maybe next time when I'm not on such a tight budget.

4srsly

This year's love had better last
Heaven knows it's high time
And I've been waiting on my own too long
But when you hold me like you do
It feels so right
I start to forget
How my heart gets torn
When that hurt gets thrown
Feeling like you can't go on

Turning circles when time again
It cuts like a knife oh yeah
If you love me got to know for sure
Cos it takes something more this time
Than sweet sweet lies
Before I open up my arms and fall
Losing all control
Every dream inside my soul
And when you kiss me
On that midnight street
Sweep me off my feet
Singing ain't this life so sweet

This year's love had better last
This year's love had better last

So who's to worry
If our hearts get torn
When that hurt gets thrown
Don't you know this life goes on
And won't you kiss me
On that midnight street
Sweep me off my feet
Singing ain't this life so sweet

This years love had better last

The River

It's a river.
This evening a brisk winter chill filled me
And I decided to take a walk.

I walked down the center of the road in the night, between the yellow lines.
The wind blew up leaves into my eyes, and my face grew cold as the temperature dropped.

I walked down to the bridge overlooking the river.
Watched the currents around the pillars.
The leaves floated by underneath me in those murky waters.

The river speaks to you, if you know how to listen.
Tonight, I looked to it.
I thought, it would be so easy. So quick. Just a simple jump.
I could see it - the icy waters raging overhead.
It would only take seconds - a little hypothermia, and then the lungs fill with water, and you lose consciousness.
It would even look like an accident - nobody would ever suspect anything.

What stopped me is, I'm not done yet.
I like to say that everything always works out in the end, and if it hasn't then it's not the end yet.
But I'm not sure I really believe that.
Hope still remains.

But what happens when it doesn't?

Lady

Look around you, look up here
Take time to make time, make time to be there
Look around, be a part
Feel for the winter, but don't have a cold heart

And I love you best
You're not like the rest
You're there when I need you
You're there when I need
I'm gonna need you

A long time ago I had a lady to love
She made me think of things I never thought of
Now she's gone and I'm on my own
A love song has come into my mind
A love song, it was there all the time

So lady, let me take a look at you now
You're there on the dance floor, making me want you somehow
Oh lady, I think it's only fair I should say to you
Don't be thinkin' that I don't want you, 'cause maybe I do

Look around, come to me
I have no answers, but know where I wanna be
I look around, play a part
I was born in the winter and cooled by a warm heart

And I love you best
You're not like the rest
You're there when I need you
You're there when I need
I'm gonna need you

So lady, let me take a look at you now
You're there on the dance floor, making me want you somehow
Oh lady, I think it's only fair I should say to you
Don't be thinkin' that I don't want you, 'cause maybe I do
Don't be thinkin' that I don't want you, lady I do

Marseilles

I sat there on the coast of Marseilles
My thoughts came by like wind through my hand
How good it'd be to hold you
How good it'd be to feel like that again
How good it'd be to feel like that again

Would you be remembering me?
I asked that question time and again
The answer came and haunted me so
I would not want to think it again
No, I would not want to think it again

You make it so hard to forget
I haven't stopped loving you yet

When I left the coast of Marseilles
I hadn't done what I'd come to do
Spent all the money I'd saved
Still did not get over you
No, I still did not get over you.

Death and Rebirth

I have died, and am now reborn from the ashes of my former self.
All becomes one, and one becomes all - call it what you may: perfection, Om, Quality, the Ideal State; all is become One.
And I, too, have.

The past rolls into the future, the future fades into the present, and the present becomes the past.

I once worried, if I only had the words to say.
Now, I realize I have erred, for all words are the same.

A new chapter... nay, a new book, is being written.
And I am here.

An Olive Grove Facing the Sea

Sworn to secrecy I might go after school
She was an angel I saw her swimming there
I am in such a mess, I can't cope without this
She just teases me, pretends she can't see me here

So let me go out there
I can breathe fresh air
Stay with you all night
Just let me love you
Just for a while want to
Be with you all night
Be with you all night

Until I fall asleep
Just let me be here
I won't tell anyone

Don't want to wake up

The blind lead the blind so why can't I find my way
This could be heaven but I don't know where I am
I am too scared to come out from behind here
My body is aching it feels like it's wearing me


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My time in the Forest is over, I have returned.