Poetry & Lyrics
Published/unpublished poetry and original lyrics written for my screenplay(s).
Poetry
Grind—grind—marching to the same refrain,
The wheel will never stop.
Hands on belts, hands on screens,
Eyes on numbers, dim-lit dreams.
Grind—grind—back and forth, the endless chain,
The grind devours all.
Factory floors and checkout lanes,
Endless emails, subway trains.
Push the buttons, pull the levers,
Sweat-soaked collars, broken feathers.
Grind—grind—churning through the days in vain,
The clock is always hungry.
Bosses laugh in glass-front towers,
Counting up the stolen hours.
Bills to pay, no time to eat,
Debt’s a shackle round your feet.
Grind—grind—stuck beneath the grinding strain,
Chains you’ll never see.
Dream of rest, dream of ease,
Dream of days you’d dare to seize.
But dreams dissolve like morning dew—
The grind has always ground down you.
Grind—grind—trapped within the system’s chain,
No mercy for the poor.
Lyrics
"Sanctuary"
(Verse 1)
You move like dusk upon the tide.
Not light, not shadow—something in between.
I have seen men kneel before statues,
but I have only ever worshiped you.
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(Pre-Chorus)
If there is a name that binds you,
let me burn it from my tongue.
If there is a shape that holds you,
let me break it in my hands.
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(Chorus)
Take me into you,
unmake me,
make me whole.
Let me drown in the space where your body ends.
Let me be lost,
let me be found
only in you.
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(Verse 2)
I would carve the ocean open for you.
I would bring the sky down in my arms.
There is nothing I would not give.
No self I would not destroy.
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(Bridge)
Were you born of fire, or did you become it?
Are you the knife, or the hands that bear it?
I do not care.
I do not question.
I have seen what you are, and I have bled for less.
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(Chorus)
Take me into you,
unmake me,
make me whole.
Let me drown in the space where your body ends.
Let me be lost,
let me be found
only in you.
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(Outro)
And if you leave,
do not call me back.
There is no before you.
There is no after.
Only the shape you leave in me.