Soft and Virtual Touch

Bringing something up

Takes a lot of guts

To be honest in the face of

Those who likely will replace you

Say just what you mean

Safe behind a screen

Do you take the risk of hearing

Deeper echoes reappearing

Or instead broadcast signals where they stand no chance of coming back to you?

Send that soft & virtual touch

Keep that fragile confidence up

Halfway in

I know you're joking

We can all have a laugh before the punchline’s thrown

It begins

The doors are open

And now there's a crowd that you can call your own

Wear a crooked nose

or a twitching eye

Hoping there is something I can notice to remember you by

If you'd like to know

I would like to try

Hoping there is something I can notice to remember you by

Almost done

Now you're saying

There's a chance I could take your wonderful damage home

There it went

It's impossible to know

How much time was spent

Once I see you go

No surprise they laid out on the grass

Enjoyed what was left of the sun

Would be great to take a shot of that

So you’d know where it came from

But the spectrum shifted out of day

Disguising the subject from you

From the brightest pink to bluest grey

Before you would move

And once again

Retire to the comfort of holding everything

In your hand

It’s time to divvy up, man

Now that you want someone of your own

What things you do together

And what you do alone

You try to live it up, man

But it can take more work than you’ve shown

What things you do together

And what you do alone

Since you can’t make time for everyone

wanting a piece of your day

You can simplify the way it’s done

Or try anyway

Here we have a treaty renowned

Disguised as a hand

Extended to give what it can

It offered a safe place to go

By wrapping itself around the throat and clenching down

Nobody's fighting you

You're acting like you won't stand up for me now

A simple thing to do

I wonder why you won't stand up for me now

Button up and don't make a sound

A whisper could cause

Irreparable damage and loss

Better to keep things quiet

Don't want to be tied to all the new things going down

I don't understand it

There must be something on your mind

I didn't think the things we shared

Were enough to make you want to hide

Can't help thinking you don't see me real enough to recognize

Patterns in the way you treat the feelings of the other guys

You paid close attention, It all started making sense

The world's going crazy and there's no saving it

You've read all about it, you'll never be surprised

It'll naturally happen before it is televised

when you

Forget about the things you share with human kind

Worry Entertainment for your idle mind

You've talked the matters over with your friends

They point to what will clearly be the end

The fools that surround you, blind to the evidence,

Are ruled by the shallow pool of their ignorance

Buckle you in so you won’t appear to be

a swig or two short of full liquidity

And here I stand, I’ve got nothing left to plea

You want what you want, and won’t listen to me

I’ve heard about this side of you again and again

but never saw it till today

It’s great that after all this time we’re finally friends

But now you’re pushing me away

Wedding Party

Left you with me

Something we know, but I’m now inclined to say

You’re not in the shape to take yourself away

Get together, celebrate, everyone is here

Time to dance and stay up late, live another year

Reach out to me on your way

Travel safely home

Meet again another day

Now it’s time to go

Couple of laughs when you’re near me

I try to get them when I can

Still waking up and you hear me

Beginning to question where I am

Could take years to recognize

What could easily be shrugged away

Showing up

Is fine

Met you in person

Had a good time

What a pair we made

Present by proxy

Conscious by trade

Stare at my mind

too busy asking

what about faces in my hand?

Who do I know?

These projections

Exist in the spaces that I can’t

Travel past the moment

Another word escapes the air

Photo for reference

You are touching up the edges

Why does it seem like the paint will never dry?

Careful as always

Set the beat without the measure

And watch it dissolve like a tear in the back of your mind

Pinching a penny enough to make it possible

to be inches from many sources of life

Given all the access you could want

to a

Second Screen

Gotta move those eyes

Every fifteen minutes you focus on something that’s not the light

Second screen

And a brain cell dies

Reborn as a single digit that’s no longer a part of your mind

Brightness adjusted

enough to make it comfortable

Selected, now must it

respect what you want?

When all is dark familiar reflections shine through to you

A frame for art created some decades ago

on a

Punctured the surface

Made up my mind to ignore it

And watch the future appear

A vision perfectly clear

Hoped I could mention

All my sincerest intentions

If I could just go without

A nearer moment than now

When the burning lights glow

Thanks for bringing me back from wherever I go

I'll be there again, you know...soon

And I'll be with you

What's at the end of this path?

This silence on my behalf

A mist becoming a cloud

A nearer moment than now