• Canto 1
    Days Like These

    Days like these I sometimes forget to breathe.
    Because I'm afraid if I breathe this fragile reality will shatter
    In millions of pieces around me.
    Because days like these, they're so beautiful.
    Time and space seem to suspend for a little bit at my command.
    Like tiny little crystal balls to twist in my hands.
    I feel like I'm suspended in space
    Events and people and places orbiting around me
    Buzzing with their own energies.
    And I reach for them to keep them close.
    I want them to stay here, safe from the world.
    Where I can protect them and they can keep me sane.
    And in this little universe, everything is perfect.
    With this short, held breath I am in perfect enlightenment.
    And then I have to come up again, gasping for that substance.
    And the laces are cut to that perfection.
    My little universe implodes inside my head.
    And I chase away the loose with my addictions.
    Until I inhale again and everything stops
    And the bogeyman is put at a stand still.
    For those short seconds the nightmares stop
    The fear flies away.
    And I'm not afraid to say I love you.
    That I need you.
    Breathe in.
    Breathe out.
    Shatter.
    Remake.
    Beat, Beat, Beat
    Flat line.
    Breathe again.
    Die again.
    Live again.
    Born again.
    Breathe in
    Breathe out.
    Rhythm and rhyme.
    And the universe breaks and remakes.
    And I continue.