When You’re Lonely

No stars in sight
The city lights
Fade out the sky

Like cryptic signs
Take time to realize
Hide before our eyes

Do you even know what you have
Before you lose it

You only
Want me when you're lonely
Love me hard
When it's easy

All I can say
Is you better stay
Away from my heart tonight

The moon passed us by
Left me behind
Among the tides

So I swim beside
The shoreline
Killing time

Do you even know what you have
Before you lose it

You only
Want me when you're lonely
Love me hard
When it's easy

All I can say
Is you better stay away 
From my heart tonight

2018

When You're Lonely

Seon Lee Lewis

All the way in the back
I heard the voice that my mind speaks
Telling me to do something
As he dug through he trash
He turned and stopped me there on the street
Embarrassment was red in his cheeks

He said I know
There are too many mouths to feed
But I've been starving for some company
Most people go
And it leaves me so empty
It's hearts like yours that keep me on my feet
Seon Lee Lewis said to me

He spoke to the crowd that walked by
And not a one would stop to think
What they would do if he was family
He told me all that he tried
All the jobs he applied just wasted his ink
The pen he'd use to write had died with his dreams

He said I know
There are too many mouths to feed
But I've been starving for some company
Most people go
And it leaves my soul empty
It's hearts like yours that keep me on my feet
Seon Lee Lewis said to me

If you never go
On to leave their hands empty
Then it's hearts like yours that keep us on our feet
Seon Lee Lewis would agree

2015

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Lighthouse

Like a lighthouse
Standing in place
Keeping a lookout
Through a stoney gaze

My mind is warning me
Of the shallows our love has reached

If I get too close
You’ll sink me
I’ve tried treading the throes
I’ve drowned ankle deep

Love may be
A land I never reach
Till I ignore the lighthouse

A ruptured vessel
A captains final day
I couldn’t wrestle
The water away

My mind warned me
Like a spotlight on the sea

If I get too close
You’ll sink me
I’ve tried treading the throes
I’ve drowned ankle deep

Love may be
A land I’ll never reach
Till I ignore lighthouse

2018

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Last a Lifetime

While we wait
For the end to start
While we wait
To break each other’s heart

Before the day
We meet our mark
Before we stray
From the stars
Before I don’t wake one morning
I’d love to

See the northern lights
Fly over the city at night
Give love another try
Wake up by your side
Till our goodbye
I’d love to
Make this moment last a lifetime

People change
But if you stay
The way you are
Or fade
From my arms
I’ll still think of you each morning

I’d love to
See the northern lights
Fly over the city at night
Give love another try
Wake up by your side
Till our goodbye
I’d love to
Make this moment last a lifetime
Some things come once in a lifetime

September 22. 2018

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Blind Love

Love can last forever
Or for a one night's stay
A tie that we can sever
The note we sustain
It's the hope in every letter
It's from a foreign place
It brings us all together
And drives us different ways
But everyone's heard about it

Only love can be as bold as we believe
Although it might be blind
I hope we never see without it

Correction won't consider
My unfixable mistakes
When desire withers
The wrong one gets away
It's the one reminder
That still questions my faith
Like it was yesterday
I'll remember her always
Always will I think about it

Only love can be as bold as I believe
Although it it might be blind
I'll never see you without it
Only love can be as bold as you believe
Although it may be blind
I hope you never see me without it

If it's new or history
Or somewhere in between
It's still in your life
It's true harmony
It's the melody that's stuck inside your mind
It's the one who never leaves
The last thing we ever see
Before we die

2016

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Only You

The sky gave
Me a million stars
They’ve gone to waste
Only you can guide my heart

Sun rays
Miss their mark
Only you can warm me
Near or far

I don’t need
Light to see
All you are

I don’t need
Words to speak
My heart

I don’t need
Anything
Only you
Only you

Shorelines change
Every end has a start
Time has a way
Of breaking things apart

I don’t want to fade
From your arms
You’re the grace
In this cruel world of ours

I don’t need
Light to see
All you are

I don’t need
Words to speak
My heart

I don’t need
Anything
Only you
Only you

2018

Augustus Carroll