Cruise

And I swear that my thoughts could eat me alive
There's something I've been searching for
Something I'm meant to live for
I haven't gotten there yet
Haven't seen the sun set
Everything needs to rise
Constant tide is the disguise

And all the roots I've ever grown
And all the seeds I've ever sewn
And all the love I've ever known

Will reach the sky
A lonely tree

Just don't forget to water me.

Lilium In Lithium

It wrestles, twists.
In spite of it's growth.
From the sprout of it's seed.

Forgetting all it needs.

Rejecting water ricocheting off it's own petals.

Pink, and soft.
White and light.

Streaming through the darkest of earth,
Roots extending below surface.

Wanting to be plucked, and gone.

Lilly droops instead, freckled on the inside, and rare.
Nature to sit by and stare.

But she keeps her head down.
Hoping the world to be erased from her memory.

And wake up in a field of seeded, seamed flowered dreams.
Drying, to a crisp. Quenching. Fighting. Dying, to be pulled out of this ground.
Taken away.

Nothing left but the devoured, shrivelled evidence of existence.