Don't love me like a rose

She Said:
           You don't love me like a rose
           You don't warm my petals with your touch
           And blaze my thorns with your piercing gaze

          Why won't you love me?
           Like a sweet wild rose?
           Thorned and all, but still precious

           It's a love that won't hurt
           Like a rose rooted in thorns
           Won't harm but clothe in a sweet aroma

           Why, why, why?
           Why won't you love me like a rose?
           Why won't you be gentle with my thorns?
           Even when they prick?

I Said:
          I know why a caged bird sings
          Its melancholy is not without merit
          It longs for the day it can spread its wings
          And feel the air rush through seamlessly
          What then of a breath of fresh air?
          Of the sun that rises?
         Will she not cry for it?
         For the steel bars are not a brass band
         They don't sing along to her melody
         She is a rose plucked out of her stem
         Her melody is written in pain
         She says don't love me like a rose
         Live me in the wild
         Let me fly
         Let me live

The Burial

Have I come to bury you?
I hate to see words wrestle their way
Instead, rush through your veins to that head
A head, that is but a shadow
Only to evaporate
utter confusion

You, You said 'Be strong'
And I soldiered on
But in this hour
It is sad to see you whither
With the withering days

It's a bleak night
I hope I wake up soon
To a blissful day
And not remember this nightmare

I hope to see you again
Out of that dark cold place
A place you have made a home

Walk, soldier on
That's what you said

And it's all that is left

.

Broken

You say you are broken
And i wonder
What breaks a diamond?

What does that even mean
When all i see is perfection

What breaks
A smile that has set days alight
With the wildest of bliss

Is it when it is engulfed in darkness?
Wrapt in despair?
Or is it when it finds a home in anxiety?

Don't say you a broken
Where there is no pieces

You are the smile
You are the joy
What is left?
When that too is broken

Coming Home Soon

Stars above tell a tale
They say you will be coming home soon
But its been night after night
And I am walking alone
In this pitch dark night

The roads we travelled
They tell a tale
They say you will be coming home soon
But its been years and I am still looking out
Wondering if you still remember the way home
To a place, we have been

The places we visited
They are talking to me each day
They say you will be coming home soon
I know soon you will be here
One night I will open the door of this heart
And it will be you walking in
To a friendship that couldn't be eroded by time
To a friendship that we called home

Even the lines of this verse are talking to me
They say you will be coming home soon
I am waiting