The Exploration

  Arrival It is hard to arrive At a specific moment in time But I guess I’ll try Let me help you deep dive To the depths of your mind Drop all your baggage You won’t need it for this flight Because we’re going to go Somewhere further That you didn’t even know You could access But it is time for you to k n o w … In order for me To find moments in my head I have to recreate a feeling While I’m laying in bed Relax, lay down for a sec Put in some earbuds And leave all your stress Open up your music Here’s the tune Just like you by Sumbuck Now let it take you To a memory Unique to you … Certain songs take me back to certain times But this song, brought me back to places in time When I heard it the first time Some sounds just make life simpler Too much noise takes away your ability to enjoy The small joys of each day Like when I was a little boy Laying in the grass I’d watch the clouds pass And listen to the chickadees As they’d sing for me The only time I get sad Is when I realize I’ve ...

  Dreiton Sometimes when I sit alone To make it feel like home I turn on a song that reminds me Of before I was grown It has no words Nobody is able to Tell me a story in the chorus Because the story is mine And the story is yours Back when you were nine And we’d prepare all day Just to go into a mine Where we could explore forever And the fear we felt Was only in our minds Because it wasn’t real The only real was the time Bonding together like iron Two swords growing sharper with time Back when carpet lines Was what stressed out my mind So I’d push the button See the glowing green outline On that box that was much more valuable Than the entertainment it provided Because to us it was escape Escape where we could find A place to go Where nobody roams But you and I  In our own personal world Where people never die And you don’t grow older You just keep getting closer To the dream we imagined But one day We turned off the game And left, went our separate ways And the world we cre...

  We(a)ight You wait And wait And wait And wait To be a certain age An age when the cold days Have all but left When you can take a breath Of air, and for a moment Feel a relief from the weight That keeps you running in place Because every time you try to escape It pulls you back into its grasp To tell you that you must wait And wait And wait  And wait To be without pain To live without rain To no longer feel ashamed For a decision you made But I don’t want to wait Because the weight is too heavy I want to escape from this place Where each day is a circle And this home is a frame For a life Predictable like a page Of a book, because no matter how old you get It will always read the same Because the words never change I open up that book Flip back to a page Where’d I’d wait And wait And wait And wait For the rain To stop So we could resume the game Because I just wanted to play And move on from that place But now it never falls So I can’t even wait For something to change Becau...

one2.1zero A madly methodical man Stands on two feet Below him the plans that have been carefully Mapped, for years, years on years During those years Not much has changed But time has chased Him away to a new place New space between him And those he loves A space that has separated What used to be Two boys in a pool So small, so new In a world that is so cruel But it connected us Like the bricks  On an unfinished basement floor Where the clock ticks But hours don’t exist Oh, all the places we’d explore We had traveled shore to shore Many times, in our minds Walls didn’t exist, neither did time A backyard is a battlefield Behind the shed a mine Where you can find rocks of any kind And shovels can make a city Engineered completely in your mind Barely understood But I thought I could And what I saw should Be documented, as a story  To be told Of a boy who at 3 years old Could ride a bike Because the sound that metal makes On the concrete creates An urge to make a change To balan...