The one walking away isn't always the one leaving.

This is my sherwood acres

If sherwood acres had ghosts

If sherwood acres had demons

This is my treehouse

This is my fairytale

And fairytales don't have to rhyme

But sometimes they want to

This is my escape.

But I've realized

I don't need one anymore

Yet

I still find myself replying

and my eyes still linger on your last syllables

This is my sherwood acres

and you aren't real either.

million dollar art

I am no angel

because an angel would smile because of your way with words.

No I am selfish. I am human.

Because I enjoy them both.

Your talent, and the attention.

Although, I deserve no praise.

But to your answer your question

I am not sinking, nor am I sailing towards you.

I am very committed to my destination.

But selfishly, Siren, I want to hear your voice.

Because what a beautiful one it is.

Job Perks

Yesterday I touched a corpse

I saw where his heart had been

Yesterday I touched a dead man

And I know he felt nothing

I touched his spine

And jugular

and muscles that had lost all strength

His skin was rubber

but he still had hair

his eyes closed upon his face

In life maybe he was a poet

Or a brilliant engineer

Maybe he was a mortician, and he touched corpses too

Yesterday I touched a corpse

He didn't blink or breathe, or feel

Yet it felt so familiar, his reaction wasn't new

Yesterday I touched a dead man

It felt like touching you.

He probably won't read this.

manifest destiny and tell me you love me

Im sorry I only can accept that from those at sea

And I only wallow in pain for half a decade

If I expect the vampiric charade not to fade

So excuse me my dear for shedding few tears

but you knew of my fears and the skeleton years

and you can't expect much from a girl lost in lust

to a boy somewhat young and a head not quite there

One day she might lose it and get on his ship

and sail away far from keys and guitars

But most likely she'll haunt you because she wont even choose

the boy to whom you thought you'd most likely lose.

But there's a secret in the telling if you listen quite well

because the girl in question for which you "fell"

will know all along that you're going to be fine

you're going to be better and better in time

and maybe just maybe she knew you were best

without the distractions of any tempest

but its a lot easier to move on in hate

so she'll let you think that she's doing great

because in reality you knew all along

you weren't really ever the one in her song

and maybe she doesn't exactly know who it's for, for sure

but more likely a pirate than a commodore.