I summon the stubborn tears

I summon the stubborn tears
To relieve the pain in my chest
The intense pain of loneliness
That makes me cry out at night
The intense pain of loneliness,
By which I fear the return…of yet another day.

I summon these tears
For salvation from the crushing,
Bruising, destructive will of life
That disappoints and deprives
You promised me greatness!
I wanted fulfillment…of my youthful desire

I summon these stubborn tears
To indeed, know that I am alive
To know I can feel something real
That, in myself, grows by leaps
As time ticks and flickers away
This thrilling, terrifying sense…of what could be

I want to love and cry out for joy!
To be loved…what does it mean?
I want to have tears outside of mourning
For my own failings and shortcomings
I summon these, my stubborn tears
Yet my eyes only burn for their own impotence

You & I

You and I
Can’t seem to get this quite right
You and I
At each others throats every night
Only to
Reunite
Over some lines and insight
We drink to oblivion
Can we ever come back?
You and I
Walk miles ad infinitum
Will we ever come back?

Music is our common language (you and I)
Between the mumbles and asides
How do we manage (you and I)
To push back the coming tides?
Our time is always at stake
The last straw always set to break
Still we keep on fragile ground
Treading softly, hating the sound

You and I
See ourselves in one another
And don’t favor the reflection
You and I
Could, in good graces, be brothers
If we could only bear the relation
You and I
I’m afraid nothing can save us, I pray
Cuz who wants to be saved anyway?
Cuz who wants to be saved anyway?

We can only be all we are, you and I
To be anymore would only be a lie