Valley before me
Heartbreak at my back
Mulholland 3AM
As lights glitter down below
I search them
For the times we had
In search for some type of vision
of me
with you
A value to those times
Lost now
With the chill in the air
And the lights down below

Double lane
On the side of the road
I saw a ghost
Of you
The way you used to be
The way I was
Looking back in that rear view
Hoping
Praying
For the curve not to let out
For you never to let out
To walk away
To disappear
I saw that ghost
In you
On the side of the road
That night
In darkness
On the curve
I’ll keep looking back

The morning gray
Where have you been?
On days like this
Of lore
The world still
The people yet to wake
We have a moment here
In this morning gray
Everything is possible
Then you truly wake up
Back in this world
It’s limitations
Your station
But for a few sweet moments
You had it
The slight chill on the air
The freedom
The morning gray

Reflections on a life urban
A choice
Some are born here
Others migrate
Like myself
But why?
For the destitute asleep in our doorways?
For the congestion
The filth
We live the life urban
Expensive days
Sleepless nights
Forgetting the earth
Instead living in concrete
Instead living on top of each other
Packed in
Suffering
Suffocating
Some born here
Hoping to escape
Others trapped
By steel
By intersections
By life
By themselves
And myself
Stuck in place
In this place
This space
So crowded
Dirty
Dreams come here
Some dreams die
Some fulfilled
It keeps us waiting
Biding our time
In this urban hell
We choose to call home

City at night
I’ve passed these streets before
That building
Made love there once
In a different time
Same structure
Same kind of night
What’s different now?
Is me
I still pass by
I still look up to that second floor window
Sad I could almost forget
Who I was then
And that person I was with
And where is she now?
Where am I?
Passing through this city at night

The midnight run
Storefront after storefront
Closed
Late night religion
And I keep walking by
What are you looking for here?
What will you find?
At the end of this street
The end of the line
Maybe the end of me
We run
In these nights
Storefront after storefront
Face after face
Street after street
To beat the sunrise

Reflections on a city changing
Looking back on her past lives
These streets
The faces
Past the learning stage
Out in the real world now
And there’s no way back
When time was on your side
When at the very least
There was hope
And your dreams
And a maybe possibility
Now locked in
To this life
To the current
You try and fight
To break tide
But one moment down
Can end it all

Night Dive
Why won’t this light change?
I’ve got to get out of here
Out of this place
And this cycle
These dreams
Night diver
Plunge deep
Into the cold
Of night
Lights reflect
From the surface
Of you
Soaring
Wind whistle
Windows down
Night diver
Driver
Drive far away
From this place
These memories

What’s holding us together?
Just gravity these days
Or time
Scattered
Like dust
Scattered souls
Held together
By time
By place
On a journey
Across a great plane
You and I
Tomorrow will be
Yesterday was
Now is
Scattered
Layered
In the stratum
Like us
Is it will
Force
That holds us together
Holds us down
To this world
This place
This collection of all things

A secret world
Streetlight nights
Driving fast
Through this darkness
Illuminated
A kiss digital
The music of her airwaves
On this night
In this secret world
I’ve split myself in two
Both halves for her
Tonight
Tomorrow
I believe in maybe always
On these streets
Under these lights
Through her in darkness
In my secret world