slipping by and by

redrawn by Alistair Chong

lift my blurry mind
into the song
echoes through the night
calling back memories
and summoning ghosts of the past.
I let the song go on.
And slip down into the darkness again.
and i come back once again
to find its gone
replaced with another
the same memories
coming, coming.

comes

sufficing by Alistar Chong

i suffice myself
with these lonely thoughts
i singing to no one
because you aren't here
talking to myself
because you're not here
to take my thoughts away
staring at nothing
because you aren't here
to satisfy.
i'm here
and it's so lonely.
like a drop in the desert.

pump

hood by Alistair Chong

i pull it over,
got my view and closed it,
my hood past my eyes
becomes my disguise.
and i hit.
hit the beat.
let it come, the flow
gets me low, gets me high,
gets me up on the dry.
there's no point
seeing you face to face,
i already know you're in the wrong race.
out of your league.

the way it

rains on the land by Alistair Chong

i like the rain.
the way it falls,
softly, without a care.
the way it lightly sets
and intertwines
through your hair.
i like the way it falls,
softer to touch
than light
and less fooled
the way it sets my skin
and cools.
it's nice.

let it come

coming back by Alistair Chong

i try, but the beats won't come
nothing seems tight anymore
its loose, it's jarring
and it feels like i'm repeating myself.
one more time i try,
feeling it wash me over
the feeling of being lost
but my eyes snap open
and flick to the mirror,
it's not working.
i'll try again tomorrow.
something to work on.

catching everything

through the glass by Alistair Chong

captured in time
smiles and eyes
traces of fading light
sweeps past you
hair caught in the wind
stops, and dances for the lens.
the dance
it takes my breath away.each eye
the way you smile
and shelter from the night
the way you lift are.
what is it
that etches itself into my mind?

just like

walk your own by Alistair Chong

they walk in their own worlds
unaware
their thoughts none but their own
none to share
but they do not see
a pair of eyes
watching, watching
the steps go by
on the steps
my eyes.
i see two
in heaven to be
with the other
joy uncontained and unrestrained
a kid on a board
taken with disdain
because no one understands
its how he lives,
how he breathes.
i see the lonely girl
by the tree
wishing he'd come and hold her
to share what she's seen,
to catch tears held back.
i am.
just like her.

frost

ushering by Alistair Chong

clouds forming above
warn the days of dark
frost settling on the grass
smothers life beneath
and calls for a new dawn

missing

different by Alistair Chong

missing
the warmth isn't the same
the same without you in my eyes
without you here beside
it's not the same
something's missing.

telling

stories by Alistair Chong

this page
has been marked and mortared
torn and tapered
used beyond itself
time to turn .

the next page comes, fresh
to start a new story
to start a new scene
page after page

the saga never ends.

turned

lonely one by Alistair Chong

look on the dark side of sunset
the clouds turn their back
the sun gives all it has left
but they just can't see that.

waiting for the moon
they don't hear the beauty
of the sun's final tune
blinded by their cruelty.

it's a lonely thing
when you're only one
it's a lonely thing
being the lonely sun.

rock and a hard place

in and out by Alistair Chong

my mind is frayed
caught between
what is and what is not
between the heavens
between the flames
trapped between my hope
and crippled despair
just give me something


Beautiful Soul by Jesse McCartney

I don't want another pretty face
I don't want just anyone to hold
I don't want my love to go to waste
I want you and your beautiful soul

I know that you are something special
To you I'd always be faithful
I want to be what you always needed
Then I hope you'll see the heart in me

I don't want another pretty face
I don't want just anyone to hold
I don't want my love to go to waste
I want you and your beautiful soul
You're the one I want to chase
You're the one I want to hold
I won't let another minute go to waste
I want you and your beautiful soul, your beautiful soul

You might need time to think it over
But I'm just fine moving forward
I'll ease your mind if you give me the chance
I will never make you cry, come on let's try

I don't want another pretty face
I don't want just anyone to hold
I don't want my love to go to waste
I want you and your beautiful soul
You're the one I want to chase
You're the one I want to hold
I won't let another minute go to waste
I want you and your beautiful soul

Am I crazy for wanting you?
Baby do you think you could want me to?
I don't want to waste your time
Do you see things the way I do?
I just want to know that you feel it to
There is nothing left to hide

I don't want another pretty face
I don't want just anyone to hold
I don't want my love to go to waste
I want you and your beautiful soul
You're the one I want to chase
You're the one I want to hold
I won't let another minute go to waste
I want you and your beautiful soul

immortal

just by Alistair Chong

a dream so vivid
made my heart soar
let the tears stream
and filled my emptiness
with something more

with you
you and me

we were the same
no shadows of fear
no creeping icy fingers
of doubt and despair
everything was clear

with you
you and me

don't pull me back
from the sunlight
this euphoria this warmth
that only comes
when you are by.

with you
you and me

sunlight comes
faint with the dawn
rises with my falling hope
tears at spirit torn

it was just a dream
just a dream

poise

here she comes by Alistair Chong

biting and howling
the savage call of hers
haunts my ears
infiltrates the boards
and finds its way
into every being
calling out to her
come, come, come.
she waits patiently
then strikes.

submerge

the pages by Alistair Chong

immersed in this world
i live through the eyes
of page after page
like the wind they flick by.
don't pull me out again
because it hurts to think
of you.

the skies

the end by Alistair Chong

i'll lift this heart of mine
this one to you
because there is nothing else
to gain to lose.
you are all i've left
your word, your secret place
i've lost the rest
but your ever calling embrace.
lift me up again
i know you're there
listening through the wind
for your voice

fast

spin by Alistair Chong

spinning spinning
the world goes by
over and over
just a blur to my eyes

falling falling
comes crashing down
i shut my eyes
and pray it doesn't hurt.

looser

the warmth by Alistair Chong

heats my core
washes the numb away
and cleans me thoughts.
lifts my head
and works the tension
from my heart
with soft and seductive hands
this warmth.
yours.

rare

not a lot by Alistair Chong

just a walk
just a word
just a line
that's gone by

so simple
means nothing
the surface
is all it means
and that's all
all there is.

rarely.

these lights

4.39 by Alistair Chong

4.39 in the morning
willing this conscious to leave
but my thoughts they never
heed to me
the ticking clock
the heartbeat of time
goes on and on and on
leaves this dead behind
at 4.39

are you there
when i am
in the city of thoughts
and blinding hope
are you where
where i am
where we are blind
to these hopeless thoughts

4.39
you are in my eyes
in my head, everywhere
you are my cries
and i just yearn to black myself out
out of this misery
into my dreams and nightmares
and out of reality
at 4.39

are you there
when i am
in the city of thoughts
and blinding hope
are you where
where i am
where we are blind
to these hopeless thoughts

wandering these streets
i lose again and again
you from me
won't you find me here

in the city of thoughts
and blinding hope
where we are blind
to these hopeless thoughts

the road

i know by Alistair Chong

i know where you are
down the street
lined with leaves
its a boulevard of aching ghosts.
i can't get to you
and it kills on the inside
makes this avenue
of freely fallen light
and carpeted sheaths of leaves
so unfair
unjust.

sore

down here by Alistair Chong

waking, i hear myself
beyond the horizon
gone from the light
don't want to veer from this black
this blanket which keeps me
away from what's beyond the door.
don't wake me up
i don't want to

let

can only by Alistair Chong

the tide can only rise
from the eroded shore
over this shadowed dam
and up this stony wall

the water only creeps
down the lonely pane
and through the cracks
as it drips again, again

replicate

soon enough by Alistair Chong

soon enough
they'll leave
in pursuit of the sun
for a better place
than this dusty city
of earth and stone

soon enough
they'll leave
leave us to become them
and to search the sun
and find ourselves returning
to the stony earth

pulled

unintent by Alistair Chong

nothing escapes
from your hold
drawn to you
are thoughts untended
always.

flake

picking by Alistair Chong

i have to pick myself
up again
let it behind
this fall leaves
me bruised
but she'll be back
shining glow
as before
but now
i have to clean
this tarnished tainted
core.

loom

wells by Alistair Chong

lost,
she runs away
searching for the exit sign
from her ways

fear,
it grips her breath
cuts her throat
shows her soul death

coming.
coming.

find me

deeper by Alistair Chong

sleep
runs from my mind
i chase after her
running, slipping.
lost in my mind
hiding from me in
this maze
time
builds these halls
corridors and turns
for her.
i built them
for her.

open eyes

times by Alistair Chong

lying in bed
to the sound of rain
and dripping water
washes over these
voices in my head
and lets me drown
in the trickle
soothing, so soothing.
take me away with you

lost at

in the by Alistair Chong

in the sea
there is only one drop
when it glistens
catches my eyes
and teases a tear

fitting an ocean in a cup

called

going by Alistair Chong

their faces
all the same
withered by time
their lives
in the final stretch
reaching for the line
they
so content
to see the sun
standing once more
just once.