Sunset in Tuscany '08

The day leaves us

And it makes one hell of an exit

Where the sun is a distant heartbeat

Final breathes of light pouring 

The last of its lifeblood into the sky

Clouds are impaled and rest and roll over

The misty green mountaintops

Other clouds have been rolled flat

Made thinner by each passing second

Moments of time taking a memento of the day

Holding onto the backdrop of a painted sky 

That could only ever be watched

Never to be touched

Because to watch is to admire, to love

And to touch is to feel, to hold and to take

To own and overpower

I do not wish to do so

I only stand

Stand and see that

Although I have traveled here,

The sky waited for my presence

A symbol

Or a thought

Or a calling

It's something
I may one day be

Something that I can't hold

But can take with me.

an aside.

pit pat... pitter patter...

The rain always falls and it...
(rain wont fall on the                  doesn't
mountain top that's why            seem
rain never fell up                         to
but travelling the mountain        matter
is lonely as fuck.)

On that day on the way

Whether driver or passenger
We ride together
Ready to fight whenever
And laugh forever
Like the Northmen,
We're Depending on each other
But obviously
We look a little better

Our heart's been known to wither
I don't think I could do without her
She keeps me a steady fella
Her lips my umbrella-ella
I'll love her until I die
And if you don't know
Just check the eyes
When she leaves I'm not the same
She's the girl who hates the game
And I wont back down again
No I wont back down again

Your gift and curse is felt
Times I've wished another hand were dealt
But maybe our presence can be felt
After all,
I have the pen
And you read my page
We'll run for mountains
Away from our age
Like the last sage
Trapped in Loki's maze
If only our peers
Could understand our rage
At the actors and
The Writers
In this mediocre haze
Drive for days and days
Live by our cowboy desert ways
Writing books forever
Every stage shall feel our thunder
And while we're drunk on laughter
We'll see imitators pinning after

And though my anger
Will never die
I take comfort
In you hearing me cry
Not a coincidence that
The one who understands
is the only one who will listen
and we don't need Swiss cottage
underground for your
hair to glisten
and in these words
just listen clear
and in these words
just listen clear:
as long as we're near
You wont ever have to fear
And I will always be near
because the loved one
Is loved around here.