"I am the unclean The black drop at the bottom of your cup You'd better drink or throw me up 'Cause I am on your lip and tongue God I'm not yours as much as you are mine So let me in, to be your lung Just breathe me deep...

She walks these empty streets alone Hiding from something they call "home" Hoping to find some peace of mind Sometimes we need to walk alone She is set on running away Though her mom was yelling she must stay A wind beaten bird for reasons unheard Sometimes it is best...

You claim I don't know you, but I know you well I read in those ash eyes we've been through hell I've walked with the weakest just to feel strong You've given your body just to belong Let's burn together Let's burn together This pain will never end These scars...

For as long as I can remember I have wanted to Silence every beating heart Every sound of breathing Now there is something inside of me That aches as I hear you breathing here When you sleep Between these morning sheets I am the tears in your mouth I am...

It all comes back to me Face to the floor Heart in my mouth My forehead hits the pavement Again Numb Again Sharing this humility A circle of humanity Momentarily black in me Immomentarily black So black Memory, leave me be Close that eye, leave love blind When outcome is...

Looking at you, I see her face Through all these years, just waiting It all catches up on you when you slow down I'm back in that yard, tasting that shame Of pushing her down Of kids and her games Their strongholds We had a bigger world We had a...

I watched you die Though you had always been there Since I first came into this world Outside people smile I ask "Why this deep blue sky? When you have left this world today Does it not know when to weep?" All my life I've looked up to you A...

Mother At my first breath Every paragraph was set As I inhaled the scent of debt Mother – that first stolen air Taken as a legal sign On papers saying I'm not mine "We crown you, the King of Loss Better get on your feet Best be one of us...

I thought I'd seen hell Thought I knew it all Now I know too well Hell is to wake up But it makes all the difference Tasting the tears in my mouth Taking the weight on my shoulders The hours and days of your life Don't necessarily make you older...

This world is what we can give Scarred from the way we lived All those dreams we shared for you How I wish they could come true We dreamed of a world in peace But killed for a life of ease Now we leave the wounds for you What else...