"One Step"

My love life’s one of

Holding on too long

Hoping my gut would be wrong

I can’t speak for you

But I think you’re a crossroads

Am I just your direction sign?

Maybe it’s my mistake

I know your history

How quickly you can be desensitized

No matter who’s to blame

At least one of us should have stopped

If we ever thought anything was wrong

You know the truth

You know my past

You know how my heart was broken

Would you dare break it back?

One step at a time
Our backs to the flames

A thread and sky at our feet

And nothing but darkness ahead

I take the risks gladly

We were kindred souls

Who didn’t foresee

That night or the many since

My heart was in pain

Although I didn’t have a clue

You forced me to feel every ache

There was no other way

If I wanted feel

And get past the numbness I didn’t know

But I’m so curious

About your feelings through all this

No matter what you share you still hold on

You hold the key

I want to take

To unlock the intangible

Treasures inside your mind

One step at a time
Our backs to the flames

A thread and sky at our feet

And nothing but darkness ahead

I take the risks gladly

I don’t make plans for the future

The next hour is too far ahead

But at my core I itch to understand

What I never have the need to know

One step at a time
Our backs to the flames

A thread and sky at our feet

And nothing but darkness ahead

I take the risks gladly

"Labor of Love"

Why is it that when I’m in a joyful place

I have no creativity to express myself with words

But when I’m angry or mad or otherwise hard-pressed

Poetic lyricism bleeds from my fingertips like the rain

I’m itching to be expressive

To create a fitting collection of words

But if I have to be miserable to be expressive

I’d rather never create again

This is truly an effort

A labor of love that only starts what you so deserve

I never thought this feeling would now be mine

I had resigned myself to give up on a love that’s like this

You keep unlocking things inside of me that are new

Like conceiving creativity out of this affection

So I want to give you something

To express exactly how you make me feel

You have all of my senses tingling with anticipation

Waiting for what thrill is still to come

This is truly a blessing

This labor of love can not quite express how meaningful

I hope you can feel my emotion

I nearly can not express

My labor of love is my proclamation of your love