I wrote this for Tim today.......
"He Keeps"
He keeps his thoughts to himself.
Has not occured for him to ever tell.
He lives his days in silence, his nights are kept close.
In the solitude of his room, he wonders
whats next?
The earth always quakes below him, the skies above brew and burn.
He never shuts his eyes for sleeping, he only shuts them to learn.
Behind his eyes lie his secrets, the whispers and longings of his youth.
He often finds himself praying, but who to? and what for? and why?
The days and nights come steady like his breathing.
He almost cant tell the difference or ever notice.
Trying to remember why he woke up, is a question that remains unanswered.
But the drive inside him knows why.
He never cries without reason and when he does he never makes a sound.
His cries are quiet and silent, but his pain his undeniable and loud.
He is loved and he is wanted. He knows this and it gives him peace.
But he is loved by a girl who is restless, a girl who talks in her sleep.
While he is awake and he is living, she is asleep and there she stays.
She doesnt like to be woke up when shes dreaming, and he is the only one who undserstands her when she talks in her sleep.
She sees his beauty and his passion. She sees below and beyond whats in sight.
She keeps him near with her thoughts, she keeps him near with her love, she will never let him go.
She has always wanted to be loved, to belong to someone who shares her pain.
She knows that she has found him, cause he understands her when she talks in her sleep.
There they are, two people, people who live day to day. Never quite satisfied or happy, but they keep on living anyway.
Dreams and thoughts and pain, they have in common, eagerly they try to share. "If youll take my pain I'll take yours" they say to each other, but either way relief is never their's.
But they know they have each other, and they know the sky will never fall.
As long as the stars can stay in their sight, and in their focus, they will keep hanging on to it all.
Yes, they will keep hanging on to it all.
He keeps his thoughts to himself.
Has not occured for him to ever tell.
He lives his days in silence, his nights are kept close.
In the solitude of his room, he wonders
whats next?
The earth always quakes below him, the skies above brew and burn.
He never shuts his eyes for sleeping, he only shuts them to learn.
Behind his eyes lie his secrets, the whispers and longings of his youth.
He often finds himself praying, but who to? and what for? and why?
The days and nights come steady like his breathing.
He almost cant tell the difference or ever notice.
Trying to remember why he woke up, is a question that remains unanswered.
But the drive inside him knows why.
He never cries without reason and when he does he never makes a sound.
His cries are quiet and silent, but his pain his undeniable and loud.
He is loved and he is wanted. He knows this and it gives him peace.
But he is loved by a girl who is restless, a girl who talks in her sleep.
While he is awake and he is living, she is asleep and there she stays.
She doesnt like to be woke up when shes dreaming, and he is the only one who undserstands her when she talks in her sleep.
She sees his beauty and his passion. She sees below and beyond whats in sight.
She keeps him near with her thoughts, she keeps him near with her love, she will never let him go.
She has always wanted to be loved, to belong to someone who shares her pain.
She knows that she has found him, cause he understands her when she talks in her sleep.
There they are, two people, people who live day to day. Never quite satisfied or happy, but they keep on living anyway.
Dreams and thoughts and pain, they have in common, eagerly they try to share. "If youll take my pain I'll take yours" they say to each other, but either way relief is never their's.
But they know they have each other, and they know the sky will never fall.
As long as the stars can stay in their sight, and in their focus, they will keep hanging on to it all.
Yes, they will keep hanging on to it all.