older and newer

11.
this here tonight
within these four walls
is a fire burning sleepless for our entire lives
running marathons over land mines
chasing dreams our parents once had
but we sometimes soon forget
in the absence of family portraits
that the things we need to say
are the things we need to hear most
to be able to say
to each one of you
how much it means
to know that you don't have to carry the weight of the world
as long as we're together

12.
because somewhere
out there
tonight
sits a hungry child
draped in yesterday's news
of has beens
and what nots
of forgotten headlines
and tear drops

13.
for dorothy

how do we look back down the corridors of our paths
and know that we did everything right
that we stole our own hearts
and traveled around the world
leaving tattered ribbons
so we may know how we got here
how do we know that when the last grains of sand fall
we have nothing to regret
that regret is only a figment of our imagination
that could never possibly exist
because we know that we're full
off the friends we drank
and we could never finish half empty
how do we stare fear in the eyes
and make it taste its own medicine
to never realizing its full potential
to cower at the foot of possibilities

dorothy, you held the world in your hands
a raven perched on your shoulder
you carried her

14.
surrendering to constellations / the sun crashes into the waves / tides washing up warm footprints that fade too fast to save / i bang my head to the cadence of this exhausted march / cause its got the best of me this time beaten from the start / maybe questions are better left unanswered for a while / an elected excuse to play the fool / good enough for another mile / i've wrecked myself in this nervous habit and its not helping much / a case grass-stained and starving for just an honest touch / letters paint forgotten scenes and photographs read like a diary / hits too close to home and breaks the bones that cage memories / and i am choking on the dust that kicks up when nostalgia sets in / a broken heart with bandaid fixes that bleeds for just a friend / the black labrador's coat coloring the endless stellar sky / lacquered and polished interrupted only by planes passing by / gracious bodies speechless / pressing hands an innocent crime / victim to becoming another thread woven through the fabric of time / the felicity of that one night fuels the burning adoration / as skies the stale shade of gray dishearten summer expectations / packed up but far from giving up / no resignation at versailles / i'll swallow this package whole and harbor it in my stomach that's leather lined

bhurin

playlist:
the get up kids - the ep's: red letter day and woodson