the People: Reign Over Me

Let it bend before it breaks
in my angst I will relax
and I'll remit but I wont give in
to your selfish grin and
your evil pull in this great wide world;
you can't win
try as you may lose as you must
'cause my heart and soul has strength
and my smile is contagious
my love, addictive
the world needs this
shelter from the storm
together we'll carry on
into the eye until it passes by
the weak grow stronger
the strongest weaken
I will rise above
and shake the shit out of your dumb
so you shall succumb to the greatest power that has yet to reign;
the people
and when all your steeples have fallen in
and your religion no longer can convince
this world to rage forward with senseless war
then we shall find our peace, inner and world
divided we fall
come, take my hand
and united the people will eventually stand



Reign Over Me
Take me as I am
Accept me for who I'll be
Judge not Ye who falters onto thee

I am Still

Every lie within me is one beautifully kept secret
Like a ribbon tied tightly around my ring finger
I remember not to slip
To slip into an abyss of this dangerously unforgiving world
I falter but I show no signs
My seams tied tightly on the surface
Took years of building these fragmented pieces to portray this
the fear of the rage and the anger has subsided
almost only a figment of my imagination
until it sneaks up that dark pathway to my heart
cuts the cord and trips me in the nerves
but that is okay because
I have learned and I am still learning
I know that when it hurts that I can cry because
I have cried and I am still crying
and when someone so near to me is lost momentarily in time and held in distance
I know that
I have grieved and I am still grieving
In my past when i felt that I
I had died on the inside
that was only because
I have died and I am still dying..
But I also know that when I smile on the outside and I feel it in my heart so intensely that it brings tears to my eyes..
I know that I have lived and I am still living.