Purity Ring - Begin Again

...bath on, per usual

my deluge surges

through the faucet

hot like I like

foamed like I like

I lay

ribboned in wet

I close my eyes

and slip under

a chardonnay float

by my side

just in case, of course

I do this thing

a melody on repeat

til I see every lick, vocable

til I see his voice, his face

and my own bow-tie

white, with a large pearl

at its knot

I drift along

wishing of swords

hoping of apples

gilded over for my own pleasure

horned for black feathers

and velvet beaks

I swan,

dreaming of that peak

wishing of that peak

hoping for that peak

in the foggy distance

far, far away...

-Note to Self-

...I thought I tamed you.

Time wasted on

one-winged birds

and wicked foxes...

showering you,

glassing you in

only to protect your 

fickle flame.

Listen closely and believe

when I tell you

the birds will come tonight

and make me see again

follies fading

for the first time...

Dumblonde - Remember Me

...sometimes it's jumbled

in colors 

we don't understand,

colors we've never even seen before

and the stories change

when we feel like it.

Remembering only what we want.

So tell me your version.

Please

I know it's different from mine

because lions don't lie.

What color did you see?

Do you remember the texture, pattern

of that memory?

Possibly

Maybe

Not

So vivid, vivid

so vivid.

Take me as the one

who warned you that your flame

could not be held.

Take me as the one

who made you smile. 

The one

you sang to.

I wanted to listen, but I wasn't the one

and so you've turned me into the

faintest rainbow

and I wonder 

wonder,wonder

if that's how you'll

remember me...

Taylor Swift - Wildest Dreams

...I thought, for the longest time

this was my movie.

Clearly it wasn't.

I thought I was in control

and the explosion that came

left me in the dark

only wanting more.

An emotional affair,

when we were on 

we were on.

Was it simply just acting?

I don't know...

And though I knew

of your chains

And knew of your shadows

and skeletons

I fell in love

still

thinking I was your key

How shaded your eyes were

nothing behind them

nothing in them

but my voice would make you glow

and I could catch a glint

in their deep

that showed promise 

and begged for help.

I tried to grasp you

and for a while it worked

But I think the warmth of it all

became too much and you folded

into your shell

into your dark

and you decided not to know

not to care

not to show...