Daggers (Consumption Casualties lyrics)

Filling these voids

As the holes grow larger

Screaming on the inside 

While I walk past you

Hello hello can you see me 

Hello hello can you hear me

Take this weight 

It's crushing my chest

These bruises and scars

Burn at your caress

Skin pulls tight

Synapses fire

I hear your words

Sharp like daggers 

In my mind 

Everything is fine

All I have is

This wasted time

Don't be frightened 

By what you see

Could it be

You never knew me

Skin pulls tight

Synapses fire

I hear your words

Sharp like daggers

You can't hurt me anymore

I found a way

To even the score

Skin pulls tight

Synapses fire

I hear your words

Sharp like daggers

~Amber C. Smith 2013/14

After the Phone Call

I love autumn leaf tornadoes 

That swirl like dervishes 

Over the black asphalt

Trains that call out my name

Just when I need to hear them

Standing beside the tracks

To feel the wind upon my skin

Reminding me how alive I am

Poets that make me weep

While giving me hope

In a room full of strangers

Standing shoulder to shoulder

Having a collective heartbeat

That could deafen the world.

~Amber C. Smith (Autumn 2013)

Sky Walking

Walking the skybridge to your doctor's appointment

You took hold of my hand

I had to stop and breathe in the moment

"What mom, oh do you need to take a picture?"

I smile at your intuition and how you follow suit

Everyone rushing past us 

Not even raising their heads to glance outside

Missing all the wonder surrounding us

While we stand there suspended in air 

Capturing  images

Of the trees set aflame

By Autumn's fiery kisses

Branches piercing

The perfect blue sky

Leaves glistening like

Red rubies bathed in sunlight

I hope I never lose this sense of awe

Imbued by the changing seasons

The fortuitousness of being your mother

Even though you grow older each day

You will always be my firstborn

And I still have to catch my breath at the beauty of it all.

~Amber C. Smith (Autumn 2013)