Thursday, June 21, 2012

Hurricane and Dirty Sea

he pulled you down
'til you tasted earth
and bitter stones
and tree root frown

and said he
inside of you
is like a hurricane
and the dirty sea

no more shall you
walk in my yard
nor open my doors
for you I never knew

he kicked your chin
and sent you off
some barren road
marked by a sin

and lo, I see
inside of you
is like a hurricane
and the dirty sea

you walk and cry
and sky rains down
and songbirds mourn
as they fly by

the trees all frown
and stars watch you
as you walk from home
on your way to drown

angels take you in
with arms full of love
and their divinest grace
overlooking sin

and they will be
calming inside you
the hurricane
and green tinged sea

and still your storm
and bring you home
and tuck you in
all safe and warm

and then wilt he
kneel by you
no more hurricane
nor a dirty sea

and say to you
in reverence and love
for you his child
invoking all that's true?

will say he
of your humble life
and all your dreams
beside the sea

that you his son
are forgiven now
and loved the more
after what is done?

and lo, I see
inside of you
was a hurricane
and a dirty sea

and on your shoreline
was a sad little boy
and a broken life
and a warning sign

but angels I did call
to bring you home
and heal your heart
and stop your fall

and still your storm
and bring you home
and tuck you in
all safe and warm

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Are We Blind Embracing Wind?

"Embrace the Wind"
Under summer heat I want to bathe my feet
in new grass and rocks and tree roots
I want to photograph fairies
and go and visit a new sea
I want to stand tall on rocks
and embrace the wind
I need to feel the wind
I want underneath the summer heat to feel
something relaxed and tranquil
and I wish to follow stars
beneath a different sky
Oh, why, oh, why
tell me, tell me
is it so hard for me to go away from here? you see
I wish so very bad to bathe my soul in glad far from here
inside a greener sphere
I would like to visit the places I've wanted to visit for so very long
but how, oh how, can I make it more than just words in a song?
I don't know how....
but I want it now

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"Braille"

I shall pet the elephant and name him Braille
and I shall feed him grapes and summer ale
and when he follows me towards the sea
I should like to think he came along for me
I will watch him as he watches the waves crest
I will tell him the truth about the heart in his chest
and when the sun sets and we must travel home again
I will place him back on the rug in the center of the room

6/17/12

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Hell

I want to choke you
and make you feel the worst
and end you over your photos you claim I kept
Stupid, and foolish, what a selfish person
How do you sleep at night?
How do you sleep at night?
Surely, you stumble inside of your dreams
Surely, karma knows just what you need
So, claim we made it all a hell just for you
and I will pave the way, pave the way back down there for you
I want to choke you
and make you hurt the most
and spill you over the boxes you think I kept
Evil and wicked, and such a devious person
How do you live with yourself?
How do you live with youself?
Do you stutter on your lies from your mouth?
Do you sweat inside your skin to be found out?
So, claim we made it all a hell for you
and I will name the road in your honor straight back home for you

Bruised Wallpaper

"Wallpaper"

I'm not floral nor paper nor glue
I am not plaster
and your feet are not ice
to slide on by
as though I'm nothing more than a wall to you
And yet, yet there you go as if I'm a passing hallway
a walk through
a corridor
and nothing special nor worthwhile
Your feet move so fast in a haste for the next door
and I alone remain standing
like paper clinging

5/20/12

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"Bruised"

Lift you up
and take you slow
like a dancer
I feel your heart
and I do know
inside is cancer
it eats at you
and leaves a bruise
and hurts your soul
but it's OK
on your bad days
I'll make you whole
I will lift you up
and carry you
I will put a smile on
just for you
I will make your day a brighter place
for I know inside it's tough
it eats at you
and left you bruised
and you ache and yearn and cry
but fear not, I'm by your side
No matter who you are
I'll be near and far
and where you are
I will remain
to heal you
and to feel you
and to love you

6/17/12

Friday, June 15, 2012

Emptied

I was young and naive
So pretty and sweet
Like a child you took my hand
Promised things oh so grand
And then you deceived me

I was careful, cautious, pure
I was so unsure
You wrote me love letters like a pro
How was I supposed to know
that you'd deceive me?

I won't miss a love like yours
The kind that never cures
The kind that leaves me emptied
I won't miss those words you said
And all the ways you mislead
Leaving me feeling emptied

I was caught in a daze
never knowing which ways
to go to find out the truth
Where was I to find the proof
that showed you'd deceived me?

Now more careful, cautious, sure
Not captured in your lure
I discarded your poetry as lies
And ignored all your wasted tries
To come back to deceive me

I won't miss a love like yours
The kind that never cures
The kind that leaves me emptied
I won't miss those words you said
And all the ways you mislead
Leaving me feeling emptied

I am so glad I'm done with all that
I won't ever turn and go back
I felt like an empty vessel in your arms
And I don't miss that
No, I don't miss that

I won't miss a love like yours
The kind that never cures
The kind that leaves me emptied
I won't miss those words you said
And all the ways you mislead
Leaving me feeling emptied


By: Elizabeth Azpurua

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Orange

across your face,
beneath your chin
and framing that
most wicked grin
and everywhere
it leads from there
oh, how I love so much your hair

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Sets across the mountains here
overlooks the place I played
and all that I hold dear
in the color emblazoned against pink skies
it sets across that roof
and stains inside my eyes
in whispering tendrils a cloud
seems to hush the evening woods
and in silence loud
we greet the night


By Elizabeth Azpurua

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Smoke

ash tray of ashes
i guess you smoked
every last ounce of the words you'd spoke
i guess you gave in one last breath
the meaning of loyalties
and trusting 'til death
ash tray of ashes
looks like my soul
every ounce of me in that gaping whole
i will give you one last breath
to say of loyalties
never last 'til death
of trusting
so burn it up in one last plume of smoke
and leave it in one last word you'll choke
i don't care what word it is
it won't be right


5/5/12