This is a poem I turned into a song while at an internship this summer. It is based off being stuck and feeling like you can't get out. It is based off feeling like a shadow in your own step. It is based off the sunshine that lights up the day and is masked by the dark whispers of the moonlight.

I dedicate this to a friend who really touched my heart and inspired me to reach out from a dark hole I was in a while ago and find myself again.

Waiting, always waiting past Summer thorns.

The hair that blows in the wind that smells like yours,

So sweet like honey on a mountain dew morning;

Frost lips cracked with devilish yellow

Seep into your lies as you stare at black coffee.

A shadow, always following, always shadowing the leader;

Of the misguided ghost that once was something yesterday,

And a dull nothing tomorrow.

Strawberry highlights in a Summer rain,

Jumping rope in the cornfield lanes.

Lost in a maze with no discretions,

No secrets in secrets,

No hiddens to be found in empty dug out holes.

June, August, May, July

Passes always slowly like turtles in fear of a riot.

A riot, a storm breaks out and screams echo.

She screams, he screams in unprotected agony

Against a transparent wall–divide and conquer.

Ricocheting off a large black holed cave,

Nowhere, no longer running, never always never.

A sweet escape,

How many 4, 3, 2, 1 years,

Now 4, 3, 2 kisses,

4, 3 sweet, glorious naked ravels of your luscious Adam and Eve,

4 pains of hello dear agony, goodbye everlasting gumdrops.

I don’t even like gumdrops.