Through the Lens

i see her
in magazines
flashing a perfect smile
for the camera

her tears get filtered
through the camera lens
and i wonder
who she is hiding from

no one to share
the sadness in her heart
she lives in a fantasy
on her own

friends she has many
none when she needs them
so she turns to darkness
to console her

playing a role
in someone else's play
she's tossed out like waste
once her role is played out

Secretly Falling For You

you came
to light up the darkness around me
so that i saw
what i was missing

when you speak
i watch your lips
create a symphony
the sweetest sound i've heard

and when you walk away
the way that
your hips move
excite me

i could go on
writing about all these
things that you do
which makes my heart skip a beat

but i've wasted enough time
and i want you to know
that i have been
secretly falling for you

Gifts of Guilt

she holds her hair
till he puts on the necklace
which he hopes
would take away the guilt of mistreating her

he kisses her on the neck
to show some affection
but it doesn't bring back
the sparkle in her eyes

and she wonders
if this is how it's going to be
will he try to buy himself
out of all the mistakes he makes

thoughts of leaving him
lingers on her mind
scared of being alone
she decides to play along

Paper Boat

fragile as i am
i pretend to be a boat
made of wood
when it's just paper

helpless on my own
without strength to carry myself
i depend on you
to keep me afloat in life

i cannot control where i am heading
i do not know my destination
hoplessly praying
for a miracle

that my journey ends
in a better place
before i'm soaked in my mistakes
beyond redemption

Stolen Innocence

tell me who stole
the innocence from her eyes
i don't know whom to blame
its gone without a trace

trying to act older
when she's just a kid
looking away from
the best years of her life

blindfolded by insecurity
she turns towards
things that are destructive
desperate to fit in

i hope it's temporarily
and she finds her way back
without being a faded picture
in the album of life

Pieces

pieces of my heart
i try to put together
it doesn't seem to hold
like it used to before

pieces of my life
i see scattered everyhwere
the ones with you in it
i can't seem to find

pieces of our love
i've been trying to submerge
efforts have been invain
it keeps resurfacing

everything i go through
everything i've been through
reminds me of how
hard it is to replace

Let Me Be

a frozen heart
doesn't feel love
doesn't feel pain
doesn't care about anything

that's how it is going to be
now that we are not meant to be
nothing gets in
nothing gets out

i remember opening up my heart
i remember falling insanely in love
but it's all in the past
i have no regards for it

i've run out of love
whilst trying to find my way
out of the rubble of my past
so let me be