This one still needs a lot of work, but I think it's the best I can do with my current skills and equipment. I'm open to constructive criticism!

A song about loneliness.

Lyrics:

Here we go again,
right where we were back then.
This old familiar lack,
did the shadow move,
or did we take a step back?

This jagged golden joy,
I am beauty's broken toy.
Being lonely isn't real
unless there's beauty here
that no one else can feel.

Grey and green
the storm abating, still.
peace and power
it could hurt you but you know it never will.

The mud sticks to my toes
not as soothing as the salve i chose
the curling fingered ferns
reprimand me for the love I’ve spurned

the thunder clouds unfurl
I know I am just a helpless girl
I wipe off all my dross
and leave it here between the mist and moss.

Grey and green
the storm abating, still.
peace and power
it could hurt you but you know it never will.

Mist and Moss

Lyrics:

You left before the words came
but it might be just as well
my heart’s a box of stories
that I’ll likely never tell

Echoes bound through empty halls
of songs I’ll never sing
scratching on the old stone walls
and fraying strands of string

My hair falls down like whispers
wind-tossed but never free
from a mind of mindless gossip
and quaint frivolity

I beg you, darling, if you would,
rip off these patches rough
sew on something soft and white
but matches all my scruff

I wish you knew I pray 
for you every day.
Love doesn't have to go both ways, 
I'm still here. 
And even though you're gone, 
and we're still moving on,
And even though it's hard to say out loud,
I wish you knew.
I wish you knew. 
   
Can you put me back together
if I never fell apart?
Only if you listen
to the stories in my heart.

Mary Kathleen O'Bannon