Songs

How do you make peace with a feeling you don’t understand?
How do you forget all you know?
Is there an art to letting go?

It wasn’t common for me to share songs, much less poems, but I’m another me now. Now I share to see who is listening, reading, and paying attention.

Tell me what you think you’ll do with all of this sudden news
Now that you know that I’m falling deeper into your trap
Last night I told you that I’m falling for you

You haven’t gotten to know me
Do you wanna have us a talk
A before and a now then
Maybe you’ll help me give it thought

Now it’s just you and me looking at the sky. Waiting for an aurora that’s not coming but who cares?

That’s how I live, looking for the moments that don’t need translation.

You can’t go out and buy my smile. You can’t go out and buy all my pains.

The love we had was real. In a way we could feel. The love we had was real but…

That makes one year and two days it’s been on my mind. What if you died before me.

What if we could forgive before, before. I know that this life, it happens now.

Don’t try to live so wise. Don’t cry ‘cause you’re so right. Don’t dry with fakes or fears. ‘Cause you will hate yourself in the end. Reflections of fear make shadows of nothing.

I feel I must interject here. You’re getting carried away feeling sorry for yourself. With these revisions and gaps in history. So let me help you remember.

And October blew by like a gust of wind. Another year where I didn’t take the time. To see autumn’s leaves fall quietly away.

The moon is full! The moon is full! The moon is full! The moon is full! And it’s filled with clouds of crows.

Hey babe it’s me, I’m talking on the boardwalk, the full moon’s glist’ning. On the beach there’s rhythm song, a tasty merengue beat that makes me dream.

But I don’t like the wait, when I have to peel, away slowly what I feel, I start to reel, Shortly after I retry. Time and paper, Time and paper, Time and paper, Time and paper.