nijah-redlin

This ring will not bend, this circle never breaks Always guarding, defending my soul, as it shakes Encompassing all I am within unyielding space There is no place like home, and no home like this place Security in solace, warmth in union's embrace Fear left to wander, shame left in disgrace A million miles to stroll until infinity's end So perfect the circle, never a change in the bend And I travel the edges, seeking the smallest imperfection Lest the outside come in, and leave my perfection undone Endlessly pacing the miles, as my soul fears to rest I'd claim safety in my shelter, but only out of jest This ring encompasses me, and I have g

Sometimes, I desire, most of all, to escape myself To be free from a mind so negative out of habit A hopeful spirit slightly broken down by a world that laughs at pain A world where everything is taken for granted until it's gone Vacant stares and empty smiles pasted on the facade Of a broken, empty existence we call civilization I wonder if perhaps I was born too soon or too late? I do not fit. I do not belong. I do not accept the surface as the whole I love deeply for no reason other than any less is not love to me I love many things in many ways, and yet no two in the same manner I love the smile only my daughter sees, perhaps t

the light dims to embers as night creeps slowly in a romantic spark caressing the horizon in play and as the sun sets on another evening spent trapped within I find that virtues forgotten have at last found stay a purchase once so tenuous and uncertain with time finally a nest, a home, a place to rest in my mind The days drag on and the nights can't last Fighting a one man war I can't get past Clawing and tearing away with a fragile heart I find the weight of the waiting is the hardest part in the nights I once feared I find my greatest reprieve the moments of nothing at all, except all we could be sometimes I feel so stupid, opti

Sunlight streaks across silken waves As the bluest skies span across the day Whispering breezes alight and dance around Laughter, quiet and soft pressing into the ground Another moment of blissful reentry Another loss of a morning spent in reprieve And as the sun braves the day, I drift off again So content, so happy, so complacent In your arms And as the sun sets upon another goodnight And the fires of dreams come out and take flight Into stratospheres of perfection so pure, so real Everything makes sense, the truest way to feel Is lost inside and finally free of it all Tripping over nothing and savoring the fall So perfec

The Jester enters the court with a trip and a bow Making a fool of himself and laughing with the crowd Settling down on the floor, in the shadows, stage left The Queen catches his eye in the hall, stealing his breath A sarcastic smile and a twinkle in her eyes Beneath the chandeliers, a thousand blazes of light Reflections of something more playing across her face Such a singular focus and a nameless grace The Jester rises to his feet as they follow of their own accord As her Majesty begs off from the ball, wandering off as if bored Moonlight fills a courtyard where music softly plays She dances on her own, the Jester can

Lost out of time and searching for truth within the lies The Jester's torment culminates as he's divided in light Desperately searching through the eons for his missing Queen The presence of absence burns about everything that he sees The stars gaze down on the world in apathetic bliss Whilst elsewhere, in the dark, the Jester draws breath Drawing himself up to his height, he sets about in search Nothing feels right and he needs something to make sense Through the caverns he strides, his feet fall in a clamor The earth seems determined to swallow him, body and soul Faster, his feet fly, desperately seeking escape and the light Lost

Trapped in thoughts overwhelming as I reach out skyward for you Lost, left longing for something more than an after-dream of two And as I descend into the quiet spaces I hide so deep inside of me I get so tangled up on my tongue, can you teach me how to breathe? Everything's so serious, I play games with the dawn Completely enmeshed in bottomless pools from beyond And as I try so hard to adapt myself to be who I am, I find That perhaps I'm closer than ever to what I thought behind My eyes see nothing real, only what I tell myself must be And is it just me, or is it getting hard to feel anything? Trapped in thoughts overwhelming as I

I suppose deep inside all new things are terrifying in their own way Like a child released from the only room he's known to see the day Everything shifts a little as what was once your world expands beyond The limits you thought existed, and perhaps of such had become somewhat fond I guess I could have never been lost in your eyes and melted within I suppose to some the safety of the known overwhelms the need to begin I gaze out across a plateau with something akin to the truest free breath All I am seems cleansed as I watch the sun in your eyes die the tiniest death A little paler it seems once the walls no longer surround your face

Fire trails through silken black as the sun hides the day Dancing through the endless night with the stars at play Enrapturing in displays of quiet mischievousness sublime Denying the pull and the dark and the passages of time For a moment in time, I breathe a little less And for a space of a second I cannot feel my chest Lost in the presence of a body celestially bright And burning through everything as my body feels too tight Can I wander space with you, do you think? Can we see the end of the universe and dance at the brink? I'll wait for you on the other side of the moon Heart in my hands, hoping you'll meet me there soon Ridi