Restless

My mind was overboard and swimming
My heart, it raced as if fresh from winning
The end collapsed when it reached the beginning
and all I could think was everything

Hollow

Full of feelings I have no names for
Painted memories I have no frames for
Stains of past and dregs of future
The drops of blood that escape the suture
Leaving trails, marking paths
Reducing me to just two halves
Missing nothing yet still empty
still the hollow won't exempt me
Tears still shed, heart still broken
The smile I wear a worthless token

Me

I attack with the power of myself
bestowed by ancestry
grown by life
I have mastered the art of me

Star

A tarnished star that hides its shine
full of joy despite its woe
a rare soul, one that magic finds
you n'er believe that it will go

I pray my star will not extinguish
but blink for eons since I've gone
My admiration will n'er diminish
within its heart I will live on

Now that I'm here...

Crushed by nostalgia and days that have burned

wrinkled and ashy the lessons now learned

buckled by heat and soggy with rescue

smelling the embers could practically cleanse you

Innocence crumbles within my grasp

the newness and wonder I thought would last

but now muddy memories stick to my shoes

spreading apart and coating the clues

At my feet lie the answers of why for the past

occluded with splinters and rubble and glass

Heat that can shatter and flames that explode

all tools to decipher this dastardly code.