my careless contagion

There's something between us and it's my heart still beating lying on the floor It's out there, unattached it's untethered, untouched waiting still beating What I always wanted was the look in your eyes that love beaming out of them That's the look that's the feeling that's what I've been missing That's what my heart was waiting for There's this little voice telling me, "put it back, put back your heart" But it waits for you still beating still clinging to hope on the floor between us Where can I go? Nowhere What can I say? I've said it all I wait for you and my heart waits for you in this dark place growing dimmer When they put me together they forgot some things like all the parts that tell me I should walk away But I'm here today here tomorrow and my heartbeats I will follow.

Someday you'll be mine -- wrapped up, held-to-my-chest mine Someday we'll be free and clear to love and we'll never fear what may come Someday has become our strangely familiar word oft-repeated, often cursed but it's more real every day This isn't perfect but I know you're perfect for me hold my hand, dear we're almost in the clear You are a gift I can't wait to open every day I thank God you're still here What do I have to do to let you feel me across such a distance? my pitiful words can't work hard enough can't say enough can't make you mine fast enough Someday You'll get weak in my arms and I'll hold you with a strength I don't possess right now I'll take your love and you'll take mine just like we've imagined about a million times My hands will speak what they've been unable to say my mouth will be on yours and our bodies will fuse Someday ...

This is all things bleeding this is all the end what can I say today to speak comfort into you? This is things broken and this is things spoken down to the wire and feelings on fire What I imagined for you is so much better than this what I always wanted was perfect and painless In the night and in the day I know you cry out I know you feel for something beyond this hollow place The pain won't last forever the night gives way to dawn the scars will remain but it won't feel the same You are held in His hand held close while you cry In the shadow of His wings in the blink of an eye One day this will be a memory and not a moment of death in this world of pain I will hold you close, forever to my chest We will breathe the same air I will get tangled in your hair share everything we can share and feel broken no more One day we'll get there you and me holding hands walking forward into a brand new day One day I...

I'm struggling to hold back tears on this winding trail in the shadow of the devil, the monolith that blocks out the sun Surrounded by strangers and even stranger feelings makes me wonder where you are and are you thinking about me too? My heart wants to run to you but it rages in my chest like a prisoner can I quiet my endless thoughts about you? can I put away my burning hands that just want to feel you? can I make tomorrow something better than today, make you speak the words I want you to say? There is hope in my head but fear in my heart will it feel this way forever? will you always riot in my brain wake me in the night stop me dead in my tracks when I long for you? Will I always bleed like this when no one is looking shove my guts back inside mop the bloody floor so no one knows how bad I'm hurting? How can I keep coming back to this precipice of pain? because I found you -- or someone like you -- here she isn't...

I carry this darkness like a cloak I carry this madness, this violence in my clenched fists What I am is what I've always been what I'll always be -- singular and strange I've tried to be normal I've tried to belong I sat in your crowds, played along But this blackness defines me this mean midnight I inhabit speaks for me I am hidden in it -- total, blinding sold out to it swallowed by it Absolute and utter darkness -- it is a perfect completeness I've bled more than I've said no one knows the untold, the shifting shadows that make up my bleeding out my breathing in and bleeding out again Alone I wait for my eclipse to fade to sunlight but time has stopped and my recovery with it Can you feel me here? please silence my screams silence my pain and this heart that's had enough Stamp me out, dear God there is nothing here worth saving just burning embers of a life nearly extinguished and barely li...

How can I win when I cannot stand how can I rise with such a weight on my back? What irony all my traveling all my running away has brought me here face to face with what drove me away Sickness bubbles up in me when I consider what I've lost and the sad exchange of what I've gained If what I hear is music then it is a dirge if what I feel is pain then it remains like a stain Lost -- that is my word for this lost like I've never been found "I can't even count the cost of what I've lost," said the sad, sad man There is a calmness to this death this is a special way to go there is no fighting no wide eyes no questions, very little pain It's like a song without a real ending it just fades out it just pans out like the end of a movie Like watching that sad, sad man walk away, turn a corner and you're all alone like losing a love you never had.

I was a golden boy blessed in so  many ways but now I see the end of all those blessings I was something, for sure but now I'm something else fastened to this hateful world like a junkyard dog to his chain Let me go on The sunshine I basked in was so full of promise the night was my terror and those nights were so long How many dreams have chased my soul how many years were lost below how did I not die a thousand times? Golden boy your day is done but you've a new golden boy to see running into that same sun.

There are slights you can stomach they come and they go but a blow like this comes along maybe once in 20 years If there is one thing in my whole life I could take back it would be that evil in me that threw you away that fateful day Can you ever see me the same can you ever see past my shame? My  heart is a crime scene and I'm the murderer, blood-splattered, holding your bleeding heart and then throwing it away Forgive me, dear for managing to screw up something so perfect My punishment is having to relive that moment the rest of my life So reach into this storm of hate brewing in me and speak calm into what I've become Tell me all is not lost that we can go on tell me that you still see me once in a while how you used to.

Well, it's you and me as uneasy as can be as petulant as children waiting for the storm to pass Just you and me with seemingly nothing to look forward to but the end of the world -- we can watch it on TV Groaning under these heavy skies you and I are paralyzed heavy in heart and coming undone -- are we having fun? You make faces and I make excuses and I can't seem to wait to stab your heart again can you tell me why are we doing this again? Why is the sun hiding from us why is God silent with us why is my heart refusing to make an appearance? Well, it's you and me darling dragging this corpse between us the storm has passed but I still can't look at you I'm sorry for my failures I'm a man, after all I'm sorry for leaving you alone with the remnants of me -- coffee stains, suicide notes notebooks full of pain that never missed a chance of assuring us we can never escape this pointless ending.