HIKING

-Shaking Hands- 

Shake hands with me
And taste all the lies I feed
Shake hands with me
And taste all the lies I feed
      
I know I can't be perfect 
So why do I try
Keep my secrets tucked away
Pretending I can fly
But I am caged by grief
And self pity
Resting my hands on the bars
Screaming its not me

Sublimity seems to come so easily to me
At least that’s what I give out
For others to see                 
A politician at its best
There's no place for my soul to rest

Shake hands with me
And taste all the lies I feed
Shake hands with me
And taste all the lies I feed

Why can't I realize that all 
these secrets and all of these lies                
All these put downs 
all the failed tries
They are not the future 
only the ripping away of my pride

Shake hands with me
And taste all the lies I feed
Shake hands with me
And taste all the lies I feed

I'm done playing these games
These lies are not me
See the imperfection in the projection
I thought would give me peace

graphic by: the great Lydia Feucht
(medium: communion wine)

Shaking Hands | ORIGINAL

losing sleep over broken memories 
on things that should mean nothing to me
reading into all the little forehead kisses 
scruffing your face onto my cheek
as if for a second I could be 
your wildest dream

and i'm fixed on a broken system
preset to waste all my time
too concerned with being loved to give it
losing myself in your fulfillment
and i should’ve known no one can ever promise that
but i thought i was stronger than this

and i keep saying i keep saying
there are better things in the world
i keep saying i keep saying
my dreams of you were a wasted thought
but it didn’t make them stop
no it never made them stop

i give up
on your love

bitter hope has me searching for the answers
between the words i said and things i didn’t mean
through the forest of silence and the echoing trees
i'll find the words i never got to be
and another 20 years goes like the wind 
and the wind like the love it has never seen

so i keep saying i keep saying
there are better things in the world
i keep saying i keep saying
my dreams of you were a wasted thought
but it didn’t make them stop
no it never made them stop

i give up
on your love

and you know it hurt
but you know its always goanna hurt
at least i know that something was real
and you know it hurt
but you know its always gonna hurt
at least now i know that i can feel

i keep saying i keep saying
there are better things in the world
i keep saying i keep saying
my dreams of you were a wasted thought
but maybe i was wrong

Abby | Elizabeth

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