Bits and pieces of stuff I wrote down...to get it all in one place, so I don't have 50 bits of paper floating around.... each bit separated by a line __________________ Peppermint Girl: Hey look, there's the peppermint girl, With her black circled eyes and her Veil of lace, lying over a face of such sorrow... Or artifice-sadness poured on like a mask And pain worn like a new dress. She's the peppermint girl Lips of red and a sugary grin And the sweetness of her angel's face _________________________ The stars heaved inwards Mountains collapsed upon birds And fires set forth a rolling ocean Of radiating hot forests Light defused upon itself Falling into one thousand embers, glowing orange Dimmed by your electric eyes ______________________ Resigned to this, a slow decline Your image etched inside my eyes ______________ Wander down the narrow line Of shadows rustling at my door Sun snakes across the walls and floors Tides of day, another time that's gone A whisper is sometimes harder to bear Than a scream _______________________ Images blurred round the edge Undefined - so little said _____________________ Put trust in Sadness Hope in futile Care Where Love is but the shadow of Despair ____________________ Teetering, on edges of abyss And every day is all but none of this _________________ Reminders of a life we knew But never lived to see it through Like Ivy intertwined, inseparable ____________________ the tears were cried for yesterday understood by time's delays fell into ground that pulled her in and drowned her in her greatest sin _____________________ The words fall, leaves in a pre-storm wind Swirling, scattered, ripped Falling, patterns on the dust-lined grass I know your words were not meant to hurt Like the birds against wind, struggling to ascend Falling back once again Why is it that sorrys don't mean much anymore ________________________ In brittle air we find the way To say no more-the faded shores Are dusty roads that hang like smoke Leading us on to nowhere known _________________________ Always you shall be there In the place in which I stare Though I die a death like Fitzie At the age of 40 I shall be with you in my soul And never shall we grow old You'll be warmth in dead of night You are my soul-my inward light _____________________ Always together, always alone No one told me I'd find you here With your time scarred eyes and beaded lips With the words never spoken With heaven in silence And hell set adrift Together we conquer Alone we emerge _________________________ What if the world ended in a slow fade....like the end of dusk or the boring, sad feeling of 5 o'clock...a time of nothing. If F. Scott Fitz said 4 am is the dark night of the soul, then 5 pm must be the dull emptiness of time. _______________________ Electric energy You are Sliding upon my skin With waves so shocking Arms so thin Feeling like thunderstorms Fingertips __________________ 'Indifference' is the key, you say While lips snarl with the words that play Upon your honey dripped sarcastic lips A shrugging shoulder like a razor blade _____________________ "There's always room for one more" they said As they kicked the disbelievers in the head ____________________________ written from about 1995-1998 (c) 1998, 1999