Veiled
Eyes that are empty
As I look in the bottom of the glass
The color of sky blue
Behind fearful and sad
Underneath, a mystery
And I don't have a clue
What to do...
Embers burn and sparkle
Into the night quietly waking
Neon drawing me nearer
The bar room peers as I enter
Slipping away in my silence
Calling, whispering, through life
In the midst of far aways, a social bite
Laying upon the ground,
knowing once I would've fought
Down for the count, yet a breath caught
And you just don't seem to understand
Everything that I am
If you could just see
This part of me that hides in me
If you could be there
but you act like I'm a strangeness to your world
and I breathe the thin air
Between us
~~Distance~~
Sobering moments
Though only my faith remains strong
What makes this lonely road so long?
Pushing down the pain
As I go it alone
Then you beg to differ
Me and Jimmy B-Alone with my thougts on the weekend
The drinks get stiffer
Last call, slow dance, romance?
Only litarally
If you could only see
There's a better part of me hiding in me
And tonight my eyes are empty
as I look at the bottom of my glass
It's closing time
as I stagger to the sidewalk
Taxi driver, silent
my ears still ringing from the wah baby and amps I was into
and one more night tears fall on my pillow; sultry
Tomorrow billowing clouds await from heaven's pleasantries
And somehow I need not care
that you don't see
What I could be
If I could feel the part of me again
that hides deeply behind me
In this silence
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Veiled
Copyright © Cindy Lu | Year Posted 2013
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