The Pied Piper

The piper plays
and weaves a spell

The little girl hears his call
and feels that all is well

No ordinary love...no ordinary call
He plays that one the best of all

She hears the words he does not sing
And her heart fills with every note

The whispers echo in the dark
Her soul is filled with words she wrote

For one who is too far away
Who cannot feel the piper's magic

The piper plays on none the less
He does not hear - how very tragic

Between the Lines

You and I are black and white
In a world that's mostly grey

The more we try to compromise
The more we fade away

I don't want to be just like the rest
That's not enough for me

The shade of grey we're meant to be
Requires us to share

A part of you and a part of me
But neither of us dares

So you stay black and I'll be white
And some day we will see

Nowhere To Be Found

Where were you when I disappeared?
The police will want to know
And over their shoulders as they take notes
I'll be eavesdropping

'Officer...' you'll say
And drift into guilty silence. 'I was..'
Or baffled silence, 'I...'
No explanation
No words...

I knew you would do this
Again
I knew
But I played along anyway
One more game you said

Hide and seek and hide
I didn't have the heart to stop
Even as I drifted further into silence
And all you did was watch

I couldn't see you then
In the mist of tears that blinded the world
And washed away the witnesses
To this crime

Well, 9 Crimes
Like Damien sang about
But this time, officer, it wasn't me

The police
And the crowds that look on
I want them to know
I did not push you this time
You ran, I chased.
You ran, I fell behind
And disappeared

I waited
In the same place I was before.
Decided to stop running, to wait for you
But you did not catch up
And instead, I faded
I disappeared

No words...
No explanation
Just baffled silence
A guilty silence

No one will point fingers
I won't accuse you
Cannot
But you'll know
Like I know

Exactly where you were
when I disappeared

No fucking where to be found.

Out of Time

I spend all my days
thinking of ways to pass the hours and minutes
until the moment i hear your voice

Like a drug
When I am without it, without you,
I am strung out
Nervous and unfocused
Short tempered and feverish

The days and nights seem longer
Seem darker and colder,
I count the breaths I take
until i am breathless again

The very second you speak
Each word reverbarates
Through every part of me
like an echo
calling and calling itself

And time stands still
for that moment is an eon and an age
and nothing else matters
you are mine

But straight away the euphoria fades
Even while I get what I have been craving
I am aware that soon, all too soon you will go away again
back to your own time

The sun will set
And darken my world once more
And I will once again count the minutes,
the hours the days

Let Them Watch In Silence

Let no one speak of it when it is done.
I do not ask your opinion now - I will not need it then
I am a grown woman
That's what they all said
So I need not your permissions and reprimands

The choice lies before me thus
And to run from it I will not
Can not
For I am not a coward
Not to you

So when it is done
Hold your peace
Those that had a say were invited to do so then
Those that remained silent
By their own silence are condemned

I will not apologise
Not now
I have wearied of all my trying
I will live now as I deem fit
I will love and hate and love again
Only as I please

Let them watch in silence.