Like A Flower
Those who are like petals,
adrift from their stems.
We are all petals, swaying the breeze.
Unlike the petals they can go back again,
but it's hard.
The glue is needed-
where is it.

I've never had that fear, of losing my stalk.
I've always been rooted in the ground.
I've always had some place to drift back.

I'm not one of those who drift away,
who can't get back.
Begging the other flowers to let them stay
they're something different now
they've been touched by dirt
how do they get back home?

Back to security, to security.

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Ode to Breakfast

Music for hunger
the crisp pop of the toaster.
Time to eat pancakes.

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Side Glance
On cursory glance, you look like someone I once knew.
But you're the same.
I swear you don't act the same
though you have a similar face.

I swear I caught a side glance of
you,
but everything is changed now,
gotta think this through.

I keep seeing familiar faces
on the stairs
but I see differently now,
I can only stare.

I've changed so through the years,
have you stayed the same?

On a cursory glance I thought I saw you
but it wasn't the you I knew at all.
I took a side glance-
all the people I see day to day
just don't look the same.

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Nearly Perfect
You were my first kiss, but it wasn't true
If I was a different girl I could have loved you

You had everything I would say I wanted
kind and polite, with those hazel eyes.

If I had been another girl I would have loved you.
I swear I would have.

You're still not over me, my cruel play.
I thought if I tried hard enough I could overcome that empty heart.

You were perfect for me,
but obviously I wasn't for you.

You loved animals, you loved to sing.
You had your problems, but who doesn't?

I should have loved you,
but I can't control my heart.