Tyrannosaurus Rex Playing the Piano

It's Not Cacophony Anymore

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Takes Four, Two Tangle

The skies grow dim
Are you tired too?
If it was only a whim
Can it truly be true?
Your lantern lights the way
Your words cut through the dusk
Yet I can’t bear to hear you say
That you still miss his musk
Our days are short like a solstice night
His image fades but doesn’t leave
I dearly hope this dreaming might
Bring you close enough to breathe
The fresh new air of the cold twilight
Or at least give me a chance to grieve
Connections killed with words unmeant
And the deaths I die from hopeless endeavor
To expel from the depths of a silent torment
The tiresome heartaches from long-past Decembers

Though I’ve tried to forget her
That Cheshire smirk never fully fades
While burying memories like a torn-up love letter
An expert magician, she comes up in spades
Can I hide in your warmth?
I’m not so sure I’m welcome
Can you rescue my heart?
It’s been bitten and bruised
Can you be the cure?
Or at least anti-venom
Can you lead me from ruin?
I’m so lost and confused
Have I woken up yet
Do you really exist
Can we still sing a duet
When we’re lost in the midst

Notes

“Want to hear something depressing?”
“Always”
“I was visibly upset when there were results for ‘flock of regrets’ on Google.”
“Ahahahaha”
“I thought I was being supremely clever with that…
Want to hear something even more so depressing?”
“Hell yes”
“After that first search, I looked up what the proper “herd term” for herons/egrets is. (It’s ‘siege’)”

“That is hilariously depressing
Even sadder than my obsession with the term ‘murder of crows’”

“Want to hear the final piece of the depressing trifecta?”

“OMG yes.”

“I was trying for about 5 minutes to rework the meter such that I could fit siege of regrets in there without it being awkward sounding”

“ahahahahahahahahahahaha”

“but yeah.. decided against it.. i mean it was only 6 hits on google”

“ahahahaha, I don’t remember the last time I googled anything that only had 6 hits”

“oH S%*%
IT HAS 0 HITS ON BING
I WIN
I HAVE CREATED SOMETHING ORIGINAL
EFF GOOGLE”

(Moral: If at first you don’t succeed, change the rules of the game)

Notes

Supplication to a Muse

Oh muse, do you not choose to find me?
Have you ignored my desperate cries?
And sought, instead, to steer me blindly
Toward restless seas and cloud-filled skies
Why is my heart soaked in this deluge?
Where will this flock of regrets nest?
What is my goal, are you my refuge?
When will my battered spirit rest?
Like disconnected wires sparking
She surges over me like flames
With flashing embers, lightning arcing
And yet I don’t recall her name
Oh fiery muse, are you the same?

Are you the muse that saw me crying
When everyone abandoned me?
Are you the one that kissed my cheek
Though I would not commit to thee?
Are you the one that danced with me
Or the one who disagreed?
Are you the one I barely knew
yet always said “hi” pleasantly?
Are you the one I’ve known for years
and hoped you’d finally notice me?
Are you the muse with rosy cheeks
that smiles so infectiously?

Are you still here?
Or did you leave?