Number up.

No lies
create one truth
to ten dudes
a hundred ways to lose
a thousand destinations
for a million skies
a billion guys create a wall
just a trillion opportunities to stand tall
and then forever will call
to make you feel small.

number down.

a trillion laughs

after a billion pictures

a million kisses

in a thousand ways

a hundred hugs

in just ten days

one lost heart

never truly stays.

Try once.

Like a bulimic

that isn't sick
like a barbarian

who's unequipped
like a boxer
with nothing to hit
like Rooster Cogburn
losing true grit
like a down 'n' out spidey
calling it quits
like taking one from another
making one another number
A home
without a mother
(cold kitchen
microwaveable supper)
It's waking up to discover
you've lost the wonder
That extra something
that made you that extra bit better.
That voice demanding
you to try..... (harder!
)(When that goes your gone)
why do all the talented ones
give up to Inadequacy's son?
(Medi-ocro-teee)
stick the fork in me, dude,
I'm done.