Am I... ©Molli Paige

How do I...

Where do I begin

Am I

Your sweet mocha chocolate

Kept secret

In a guarded place

No one else sees

No one else knows

About me...only you...when you feel free

Am I

Your sentiment, your refrain

Kept hidden

Cloaked, concealed

So it may not reveal

That I

May

Yet be

the iron gate, still attached

To the brick wall of your soul

Rusted, but not disconnected

You stand,

With your hands

Frozen, in time

On the outside, you mask

You make-believe

keeping the panoptic view

As a deceptive quandary

For those closest to you

Am I

Your

Stolen, last bit of frosting

On your fingertip

You don't let go...to waste

In fact,

With no eyes watching

You steal away and dip again

...Am I...

...Your enigma...

The Quiet Murmur ©Molli Paige

Nothing

is as it seems

The pages are blank,

...staring back at me

My heart pounding a crazy beat

Was it something I said

Or was it something you read

Words twisted leaving you cold instead

My words choked up in my mouth

I have no guarantee of finding my way out

Feeling the pain, seizing me with doubt

The senses wane 'til their perfectly still

Tongue-tied, your deafening silence kills me

Waking from sleep, delirious, remembering

This must be a delayed space in time

A fraudulent hand played out of line

......Forced apart, swept away with the tide

This is insane, yet so unashamedly raw

The threads are not torn through after all

Cruel life is, sometimes, laughing while

...we

fall

I know your passions, your whispered murmur...

...a distant hummmm...

Penetrating then, now, and in the distant future

Find reprieve, live, laugh, impassion and bewilder...

...there is no end...just abeyance to let us linger...

Tolerance, A Masquerade ©Molli Paige

Tolerance has been masquerading as acceptance

high jacked, kept prisoner

smiling all the while in our faces

To tolerate is to humor

to Accept is to acknowledge and recognize

Tolerance...

dormant and silent

A cancer killing from the inside

...waiting to abide

It's simple really...

Do you want to be accepted?

Or do you want to be tolerated?

I choose the former,

and reject the latter!

I choose.

Take This Picture -songwriting style ©Molli Paige

Somebody take this picture from me
Oh, it just won't let me be

I picture you, starin down at me
Your legs wrapped around me
I touch your skin, I see you smile

Somebody take this picture from me
It's been fifteen years 'n still keeps haunting me

I picture your hand reachin' out
bringing my lips right to your mouth
Nothin' else mattered, you tasted so sweet

Somebody take this picture from me
Oh, it just won't let me be

You visit me in my sleep
I swear I hear you callin for me
I hear your voice so clear...sayin'
I wish you were here with me

Somebody take this picture from me
It's been fifteen years 'n still keeps haunting me

Yet, I look...Yet, I wonder...

Oh, how I...

Letting Go ©Molli Paige

I'm trapped in these four walls, she says;

No one here to save me, no one here to tame me,

With these wild thoughts running through my head.

The phone rings on and on and on;

She doesn't answer, pretending she's not home,

The voice, the heart on the other side,

is left wondering, left wondering in the dark.

Her tremors she hides when she's with you,

The quiver in her voice she hides when she's with you;

Yet, she's left crying, shaking, faltering in the night,

She screams for your love to show her the light.

She prays for some difference to give up the fight.

She's screaming so loud, she's missing the call,

She's missing the voices, while they watch her fall.

It isn't heaven or hell or God that'll get you through,

It's your own determination, your own power of will.

Not one soul is the 'chosen one', we are not alone!

Shed your skin of self condemnation;

Let everything go and start your journey anew,

Just let go, take flight and find everything that is you.

Stripped ©Molli Paige

A flushed face,

With ideas of tomorrow floating, chanting

Your lips to taste,
Dipping, diving...unabashed, you let me in

What is this feeling,

Of knowing, of wanting absolutely everything

Standing, staring,

I find myself falling

My fingers touch,

Tracing, lingering, your body wreathing

Another world opens,

Crashing through, so familiar, yet undoubtedly new

Undaunted, stripped down,

A current through my finger tips

Your eyes dazed,

Thoughts, words, your closed heart melting

So much left unsaid,

Eyes closed, dreaming, wondering

What is this feeling

Of knowing, of wanting absolutely everything

Faith & Conviction ©Molli Paige

You may kneel and you may pray,

But that doesn't take your sins away;

Who am I to say, who are they to say,

What is wrong or what is right.

Our eyes reflect a human soul,

Mirrored images evolving with time;

Our bodies shaped, our bodies formed,

A mere translation of space and time.

Stripped of all that we know,

Stripped of all that we feel;

Who are we to judge another,

Who are we to believe we're better.

Ignorance is a shameful cover,

A cover for some to hide the truth;

Ignorance has no place in this,

A fatal blow to all that we know.

Immortal we come, immortal we go,

Lives discovered, yet still so unknown;

To be at peace, is to find within,

the love that grows and touches everything.

Love Letter -in songwriting style ©Molli Paige

My vision, stays so unclear

Like drivin in the dark, in the rain

I cover my eyes, to clear my head

There's just too many things left unsaid

I see you as a Love Letter

Wrapped around my heart

Nobody knows you're there

It keeps it from fallin apart

Now I've said, what's in my head

It's not like I...am here lyin dead

The earth still moves, the sun still shines

Everything else, is just a matter of time

I see you as a Love Letter

Wrapped around my heart

Nobody knows your there

It keeps it from fallin apart

After all is said and done

The breath of you still lingers on

I wash it clean, I want it gone

As we all know, Life goes on...

...I see you as a Love Letter

wrapped around my heart...

Nobody knows your there

...it keeps it from fallin apart...

Finally, She Breathes to Live ©Molli Paige

She could see
Everything from the rooftop, standing
The wind dancing
And swaying through her hair
She lingered
Long enough to watch the sun disappear

The quiet of the stars

Brought a hush to her ears

She lies down

Her body drifting

A flashing star

leaves her drifting

Closing her eyes, she whispers your name

Can you hear her, can you hear her in the night?

Somehow

Their two worlds had drifted apart

It's been too long now,

And it's time to let go

A light flickers

Or is the universe playing tricks

She thinks

...Of all those nights she felt broken

And incomplete

The rules of regret

Have kept her chained

But here in this place

Above the world

She's letting go, so she can breathe again

Closing her eyes, she whispers your name

Can you hear her?...She's saying GoodBye