Can't Sleep

I can't sleep because I think too much;
Robbed of life with a bitter touch.
Even in my own home, my decisions
Are met with skepticism, dismissal and derision.

 

By friends so colorful, who don't know my name,

By family so loveable, who think me as tamed…
I feel like a stone tablet left on a table:
Ignored and forgotten, till it's moving is enabled.

 

I'm so angry it hurts; this pain in my chest

It's left behind, like me and my rest.
Can't I decide, (in my own home no less),
what games to play, when stuck with doctor or dress?

 

It hurts like a dream, filled only with pain.

I can't sleep when nobody knows the frame.
I'm stuck in a loophole, a cycle straight down,
Where I can't even sleep in my own home town.

 

Why the same thing; endless repetition?

Why not sit back, even if you need to pay the tuition.
It doesn't cost much… to change your own ways
When it opens up new doors, and I can sleep away the day.

 

 

Who am I even talking to?

 

 

 

Echo Echo Freely

Echoes echo echo freely.
Over water, through the air
Echoes echo echo freely.

 

Inside a storm, inside your mind

An echo resounds
Creating afterimages of effects and times;
Memories lost to ether rebound.

 

Echoes echo echo freely…

If you count freedom as an extra large cage.
And over time an echo goes quiet.
And we say echoes echo echo freely.

 

Stuck in a hole that they can't rise out of

dying slowly unless they hit the absent bell
getting quieter and quieter till there's no sound left;
would you say that echoes echo echo freely?

 

 

ISA

Snake Bite

I was  born inside a snake cage.
Only ever pythons or vipers
Cut to pieces or choked and swallowed whole.
So, so venomous.

 

Shadows on the wall without waiting

Serpents on the ceiling, baiting, baiting
Can't figure without being stabbed by odes
Drowning in the mood. Yet not so blue.

 

Dug the teeth in without regard for the victim.

Murdered murderers… if you can erase the meaning in the bitten.
Burdened by weight without legs to move forward.
Without arms to grab, you don't create. Not ordered.

 

Shadows on the wall without waiting

Serpents on the ceiling, baiting, baiting
Can't figure without being stabbed by odes
Drowning in the mood. Yet not so blue.

 

What  joke can hide behind a mask behind a mask

Hiding a symphony without the capability to ask?
A dead band without the potion to bring it back to life.
Would you ever want to when it's filled with so much strife?

 

Shadows on the wall without waiting

Serpents on the ceiling, baiting, baiting
Can't figure without being stabbed by odes
Drowning in the mood. Yet not so blue.
Not so blue.
Green and yellow and red and you,
Not so blue.
Not so blue.

ISA

Oh Sakura

When did I forget to lie again?
With dreams left seething
It seems to dissipate
Into the rainstorm.
 
Oh Sakura,
you left me breathless.
I'm so restless,
Cannot fall asleep again.
Oh Sakura,
You left me all alone.
 
Need to go away
Way back far in bus-less retrograde.
Walk a thousand steps
into the never-ending fall.
 
Oh Sakura,
you left me breathless.
I'm so restless,
Cannot fall asleep again.
Oh Sakura,
You left me all alone.
 
Timeless wastrels
Lyrical assholes.
Talking like lovers lost
dead in the long run.
 
Oh Sakura
Without you I'll be gone.
Oh Sakura
Dead like a raindoll.
Oh Sakura
You left me all alone.
Oh Sakura.
Oh Sakura.

 

ISA