The sky fell down on me

Air is too dense

It’s fogging my vision

You will never find me

I am not who I used to be

I may very well be smog

That’s polluting your air

I’ve been left behind where

four walls surround me

I punch thru but they stay intact

You know exactly I can’t feel a thing

I have a heart of steel

Let the blame be on me

Let it be a covered up lie no one can really see

Just let it be. 

m.b.

I wasn’t invited I know

I shouldn’t have come at all

Riding this empty carousel of life

Over and over again

Not noticing the most visible sign to everyone else

“not in service”

Walk away, leave all this behind

Is the only way to survive, to sustain dignity

Start a new chapter of life

it’s all too much, I feel so spent

Someone please come show me how it’s done

I’ve lingered for your hands to lift me up

I’ve waited for salvation

And I’m getting hungrier by the hour

The fighter inside is no longer fighting

Is drifting to oblivion

Wondering on a different dimension

I am tired. 

-mb

It was a cold and brisk February afternoon

I saw a man standing on the corner of

I don’t know and I don’t care avenue.

He lifted his head to they sky

and soaked in all the warm rays of the sun

He smiled - it was infectious - I smiled to myself.

In a state of pure joy and happiness

caused by a stranger I made myself realize

How little do we really need to feel happy

How little it takes to make someone smile

and how wonderful it would be if we all could

just stop and stare and don’t rush nowhere.

In what may the day bring I don’t care attitude

I shall carry on with enormous smile on my lips

Even if the days are grey and dull and filled with sorrow

I shall make somebody else’s day better

And I will smile like there’s no tomorrow.

I shall not forget this moment, I’ll keep it in my forever.

So go on, carry on, look up to the sky and …

… smile :)

m.b.

You cross your legs and stare at the wall

Looking at it like it’s a crystal ball

It won’t tell you where to go from here

It won’t move under your command

All that you do at this point is

sabotage your own reasoning.

You take your cigar out

It’s the only lurking light in the room

It soon fills with heavy smoke, you choke and grasp for breath.

Your chopped lips hurt every time you smoke it

Or is it the scars on your lips that hurt?

It’s too late for you, your bravery will never be acknowledged

For all of us you are just another beautiful disaster.

You’ve engulfed our lives with your charming smile,

your politically correct words

and everything that made you oh so addicting.

We no longer care. I no longer care.

Goodbye. Breathe in your own smoke. I’ve just left the room. 

m.b.

The beauty once held in her eyes

vividly dissipated.

Her innocence is forever gone,

scars run deep on her body.

She clinged to him,

he showed her how to be-

- opposite of who she really was.

His iron fists crushed hopes,

he was the king of pain and stealer of dreams.

His sharp blades cut off every word she said,

her voice was left unheard.

She was locked inside a cage

entangled in his perfect lies.

Seven long years have gone by

she realized she could no longer live a lie,

she changed her name and changed her story,

she turned into a woman with a voice of her own.

The glass full of blood and lies

tipped over and spilled.

She set herself free and watched him walk away

leaving traces of his bloody footsteps that-

- I don’t want to follow.

m.b.

I have yet to hear from you

I have yet to know what you been up to

I have let myself down by letting you in too soon, too quickly.

The wise tried to teach me, I still haven’t learned,

I am bound to make the same mistake

My heart is a fool and we don’t get along.

The darkness surrounds me, it swallows me whole

I break my bones, one by one

That pain I know how to handle,

I know how it tastes, I know that it heals.

I take a sip of fire, it penetrates every pore

Someone calls my name, I put my head down and ignore.

Lonely are my days,

loneliness lingers through the night.

Going back in time is like walking barefoot on a barbed wire

I look down, my feet bleed

I find myself talking to the bottle like it’s my best friend

I am in need of something real,

something that can help me believe,

but nothing makes sense, nothing feels right.

The dark circles under my eyes can tell you

I have been through hell,

somehow the bottle understands.

m.b. 

Those who have searched, search no more

Only the fortunate ones, they reached to the shore.

You stayed behind with half closed eyes

The things that kept you alive, no longer matter.

She kept you blind and unreachable

Turning you into a stone cold posture creeping in the shadows.

Our few moments shared together made you blue

beneath the fog of the morning dew,

and now you cannot see what’s in front of you.

A trembling heart and kissable lips

Hands entwined in an endless dance,

making a difference in your lonely eyes.

You skipped a beat, you turned astray,

winding winds and gusts of despair took you away.

They left you with nothing, just emptiness

and a bleeding hole… no air.  

m.b.