Magic’s gone
No more nights like these
Living for the ride
Under light
Under night
Under her spell
But the magic’s gone
The mood has taken a downshift
Devils rise
People fall
And I’ll be taking no more rides
Like this
No more nights the same
The magic
The love
The dreams
Of possibility
Strive to get out
To get to
We rush fast
Into that unknown
Timeless
Now gone
Cars rush past
Splitting the lane
Silver metallic passing by
Behind is a past
Before a dream
A future
Of her
Of fantasy
That lives deep
In your mind
And in your heart
And now the magic’s gone
So where to now?
Can’t go back
There is no forward
Just you
In those moments
Lost
Between lanes
Between lights
Between nights
Where the magic’s gone now

Quite damaged in my own way
Having lost precious time
She came back to tempt and torture me
For what reason I may never know
A small piece of soul lost
And also precious time
It was otherworldly
For a brief moment
Once an angel
Now a demon
I haven’t tied a noose yet
But the specter of my ways continues to hang near
The only thing I haven’t lost faith in
Are the spirits, and the magic I can’t see
So I’ll keep reaching out
For the unknown
The unseen

Is this the dream you thought?
Unfortunately not
Falling
Stumbling down this path
You’ve grown dirty
The woods grow dark here
The soil as well
And you continue falling downward
Into this mess
This place
Not of the dream
But the nightmare
The branches break
They scratch
The sky swallowed
By whatever this is
You
Swallowed by this darkness
The dream it is not
Safe you are not

Peacemaker went down
Dead on arrival
These nights, no longer so sweet
This road, no longer a joy to travel
The anticipation
The dreams
The magic
Now gone
Lost
In memories
I’m lost in myself
And somewhere the peacemaker’s gone down
I’m lost in my past
He’s just lost
Forever
The peacemaker has being laid to rest
These nights…
Memories most fondly in the dark, sometimes in the light
Forever changed
Marred
Scarred
Like myself
Like so many
The broken gather
I hope to lead them
They don’t listen
Just another ghost on the road
Traveling to a place that no longer exists
Only in dreams now
Only in visions
The nights no longer sweet
No longer the magic
No longer
The peacemaker has been laid to rest
And where was I?
I may never know

close to disappearing
today I walk the trail of tears
i have to go back
not sure I’ll return
close to disappearing
taken too much damage
taking on too much water
sinking
into myself
into that which has past
into that which has disappeared
into you

Young flame
Dying out
Drowning her sorrows
Maybe just drowning
Isolated amongst the many
Lost amongst herself
Both the moth and the flame
Having been touched by her
Ill never be the same
Embers behind her eyes
Sorrow on her face
Soaked in so many chaotic nights
She feeds in the dark like a vampire
Falling down, falling all around
Consuming what anyone will give
Young flame, dying out
So hard to bare witness
So hard to hold onto
Impossible to protect
Impossible to connect
Young flame is dying out
And I’m out of fuel for her to burn

Occupied spaces
I’ve seen your ghost
Across that street
In those places we used to meet
It’s these places, these occupied spaces,
I’ll never recover from the retreat
Breathing that air
Seeing those places
We occupied together
In space and in time
A moment, never to repeat
Except in my mind
And the ghosts continue to walk there
They continue to play there
They continue to talk and fall in love there
Now, only ghosts
Only haunted
That fill those places
Where we used to occupy spaces

There’s nothing there for you
Don’t go back
Don’t fall back down the rabbit hole
Don’t sleep
Don’t breath
Don’t live
There
In that place
Torturers wait
They sharpen their tools
And they wait
For you
So don’t go back
Don’t fall in
To yourself
To her
To those places
Teased
They haunt you
Don’t go back
Those roads
No longer be traveled
Had you been there?
Were you ever allowed?
And yet you wandered
Through times
So cruel
Never letting up
Never letting life
Never let you go back
Don’t go back
There’s nothing there for you
Anymore

Night Ending
Every era has died
Those streets once traveled
Are gone
The body that filled those spaces
Has disappeared
The night is ending
And so many are alone
In themselves
Drowning
In memories
In time
Places and people gone
Now we’re haunted
Afraid of the terrors
The doubts
The memories
Of those like you
On the edge of our sight
Taunting
Haunting
Once so sweet
Now so severe
Such loss
In a night ending
In an era dying
A life ending
A spirit dying
Maybe this time for the last
The night is ending

Poison like desire
I’ve taken mine
In your form
Slighted
Wounded
Wondering
Places far from home
Away from familiar ground
A ghost
Not wavering
Playing the cards close is so hard now
Dancing with the demon so much easier
To give in
To hate
For love
I’ve swallowed this poison like desire
And I’ve seen you in it
In the fantasy of future
The haunting of past
But not in present
Not here
Not now
Not with me
This wandering ghost
Clutching at life
But just passing through