Replaying Yesterday (H original)

The Warm summer breeze falls cool at night, Last night for shorts, but first of many for hoodies. All Summer you’ve waited, Saved up all your change, done odd jobs. It’s finally time, as the sun set you get there. Everybody is there. The friends you came with, people you haven’t seen all summer, that couple who has been together for years. They are all here. Everybody. Line after line you wait. Getting in, getting tickets, buying food, Experiencing it all, line by line. You are singing, laughing, screaming, eating, Fun you have every summer,  fun that never gets dull.

The sun set earlier, it’s cooling down. *Buzz* an email. School is starting and you haven’t begun packing. Courses have been picked for months. Classes start Wednesday. You can’t wait to see you newest friends. Desk? … Check. Dish soap? … Check. Rent for this month? … Check. All of a sudden you are an Adult. Leaving home behind you. “Are you coming tonight?” Tonight? What’s tonight? The magic has faded, but you agree to go. Excitement you once felt has left. Nothing new, You’ve been a million times.

There it stands, the mother of fun and terror, towering right in front of you. Terrified of the old steal, rusted, monster you stand in line. The fear of falling off is what dares you on board. *CLANK!* The cage door is slammed and locked. You grip the bars in front of you, hands already sweating. *Click. Click. Click.* Your cage moves up slowly, as the victims below are restocked. The cart begins swaying, back and forth, back and forth. *Click. Click. Click.* Sitting, Waiting, You are at the top. Looking down, what was just so big, now just specs. *Chug. Chug.* The cage moves slightly back. It’s beginning, Soon you are flying up and down the arms of the monster. Flipping, starring at the ground as you plunge towards it. Screaming, Laughing, Holding your breathe. It stops. You’re alive. *Chug. Chug* Backwards. You feel weightless as you are flung into what you can’t see. The cage continues to jerk you around. Flipping, seeing glimpses of what’s coming. Screaming, Laughing, Holding your breathe. It stops. You’re alive. *Click. Click. Click.* The monster has been defeated. It carries you back to solid ground. You’re out. And right back in line. It’s the fair. The Zipper. The whole point of having a childhood, A summer, A hometown, Friends. Forever young.

Swing Me High (G Original)

Push me
Swing me up high
‘til gravity loses his grip

And I go flying
Soaring
Ejected into a haze of tree and sky

for a …m-o-m-e-n-t…

Everything is crystal clear
Suspended in the sun
Singing its summer song
Like a kid going on a merry-go-round

Laughing.
In s-l-o-w… motion.

‘Til just as rope and wood
Thunder back down to earth

So do I.
Released from the sky
Arching across the lake
Plunging straight down
A missile
Breaking her surface

Perfectly. 

Sea Of Stone (B Original)

Buildings on the right and the left

Stone encompasses everything

No style, no feeling, just walls

That hide inside our minds,

Like a painting of the air

But there is no air

Because the stone steals

It steals the soul of feeling

The tunnel that does not end

It goes on and on and on

And on and on and on

That runs deep into the earth

It plunges into the darkness

And I am left to awe and wonder

Staring at a reflection of myself

Expressionless at a glance

Terrified at a stare

Tumbling through solid concrete

Rumbling to a halt 

And people and people

And people and space

No space, no air

The feeling of being surrounded 

Strangers, faces and shadows

Expressionless, faceless

They do not sense

They do not see

They cannot move

They cannot move

Panic and panic

To go, where to go

To hide my eyes

The sea of stone

But there is never an escape

And the tunnel does not end

And the walls do not return

The smiles that they stole