Sky and Sea

Reach up to the sky

Try and hold on tight

Watch the clouds slip through my fingers 

Your voice lingers but I don’t remember what you said

Too busy thinking of when we met

Didn’t see you already left

Too many eyes have cried over this

But why does it feel so different?

It’s hard to say who drifted away

When we were caught up in the wind

I tried so hard to learn to fly

When all you could do was swim 

Heaven’s guiding light 

Find me, lead me home

Numb to goodbyes

When I’m left here alone

Too many eyes have cried over this

But why does it feel so different?

Reach up to the sky

Try and hold on tight

Watch the clouds slip through my fingers

Love Always, 

Lainey

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Ricochet

You pull me in

With your magnetism 

And when time delays

We ricochet 

Electrtofying

Lighting up every sky

And when time delays

We ricochet 

Of all the constellations lines

Yours and mine are tied

Specks of stars in our veins

Illuminate our skin

I see you and you see me

Where do you end and I begin? 

But gravity pulls me down

When you pull away

An endless pit without a ground

Across the milky way 

There’s a lapse in time

If it exists

As our light unties

A silent guide who won the fight 

Lost in the abyss

The same two stars

In different parts of time

Somehow fall together now

When time’s a loop not a line 

Two lost souls are found 

Of all the constellations lines

Yours and mine are tied

Can we hide

Outside the lines?

...But when time delays 

We ricochet

Love Always, Lainey

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Lotus

Grab the dirt beneath your hands

And throw it at the sky

Just when you think you can’t 

Get up and defy 

The voices they feed you 

Dust your knees though they bleed

And take a deep breath

Don’t you hide when they seek

Something they’ll regret

With their silver spoons

Rise against the odds

And look them in the eyes

When they expect a fall

Watch their script revise 

To spout more lies on cue 

Some things were hard to swallow

Some things made you choke

Some things were blindly followed

Some things were just a joke

But they didn’t know 

When you kept your mouth closed

They’d get another dose

Giving themselves the most

But you’re the one who grew

Guess they didn’t notice

They’re the ones who lose

As you rise up like the lotus 

Leaving them confused

Your hands hold petals now

Though your knees are scabbed 

Your roots push up a muddy crown

An anomaly they can’t grasp

When they can’t feed you 

Love Always, Lainey

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The Price

When the hope is low

And the doubts are high

And questions of why are left unheard

Their unspoken words hurt the most, I know

But that doesn’t mean I don’t try

Good little girls do as their told

Smile, nod and stay in that perfect mold

But I won’t let that define me

Cross the line

Reveal the system 

See the light on the other side

Even when most won’t listen
There’s riot in the quiet 

With their power of deceit
It comes with hidden receipts
And we find it in obituaries 

They put a price on our lives

There’s always a price

With their backs turned away

See their hate grow strong

Make moves, capture their eyes

See what’s left of humanity inside

Find that voice beneath the fear
Even if just one person hears
Stand up don’t back down
Heal my own wounds in this gown
Now that I know how

Cross the line

Reveal the system 

See the light on the other side

Even when most won’t listen
There’s riot in the quiet 

With their power of deceit
It comes with hidden receipts
And we find it in obituaries 

They put a price on our lives

There’s always a price

When the lights go dim and faith is lost

Stay true to the heart at any cost

Cause I know, there’s more to this

Rewrite my fate

Sacrifice ignorance and hate
It’s worth the price 

To see the light on the other side

Love always,

Lainey

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Pandemic

Sometimes it seems harder to breathe

And days like this may seem so bleak 

When patience is a thing no one has

But we see the same sky through the glass

Can you see the light?

Don’t you worry, it’s gonna be alright

Nights become days and sleep is off

Dreams become hard but the pillow’s soft 

But when you look to the sky right now

Remember there’s light behind the clouds

Don’t confuse your freedom when you feel confined

And don’t forget how to shine from the inside

Hold on just a little bit more

Hold onto what we came here for

Dig up the strength I know you have

Don’t let your will get cut in half

When we feel weak, look to the sky

All I’m asking is that we try

Where do you go with your eyes closed?

Didn’t you know you’re not alone?

Did you thank a hero in disguise?

The ones no one looked at twice 

What more could we ask for?

When love comes in different forms

Can you see it now?

Can you see them now?

Wait for the fog to lift

High above the mountain cliffs

As you’re safely wrapped warm in bed

Let the sun gently kiss your forehead 

You are never alone

When you’re safe at home

Sometimes it seems harder to breathe

When we question what we can’t see

We might not recognize the strength we have

But we see the same sky through the glass 

Can you see the light?

Don’t you worry, it’s gonna be alright 

Love Always,

Lainey

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Labyrinth

Careful the crown 

that buries treasure

barely in the ground

and measures it against 

the size of our eyes

There’s a restlessness in the air

stare at the smokescreens 

and do nothing 

as the walls change around us

surrounding us with ivy and envy

rose colored glass on the ceiling 

Indulge in every sense

in a trance we dance all night

lost track of time

don’t know where it went

the glass was too dense

it echoed back things

 that didn’t make sense

telling us to fly when they clipped our wings

See the fire

in their eyes 

each from a different past

on this path trapped in this myth

we call a labrynth

one day we’ll break out of it

 Careful the crown

that buries treasure

barely in the ground

and measures it against 

the size of our eyes

Love Always,

Lainey

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Holy Water

Embers and ash
Spinning in a cyclone
Sea breeze at night
Wondering where it goes
Burned notes telling secrets to the wind

Holy water
Coming up at high tide
Pray for our sins
Palms together hands tied
Confide in the truth we seek through sin

Walking the edge
High above the skyline
With these hearts we pledge
Once upon this lifetime
Close our eyes and fly
Please don’t let this go to waste
Don’t let this go to waste

I’ve been told to pick a side
Instead I pulled the curtain wide
Can’t believe it’s come to this
Cause I’m convinced there’s more to this

Was it yours or was it mine
The blindfold that kept me from the light?

Rip tides guide us through the night
Baptized with the salt in our wounds
I hold onto you and close my eyes
Can’t believe you saw it too

Holy water
Washing up at low tide
The dawn is dim
Reborn and so alive
Stay wild and keep the fire strong within

Once upon this lifetime
We’re guided by the light
Don’t let this go to waste
Don’t let this go to waste


Love Always,
Lainey

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Amethyst

Today I stared in your eyes

Studied every curve of your face

Saw your every disguise

In every passing phase

Didn’t know it was you until now

And when I cried

You wiped the tears away

When I wanted to hide

You made it a safe place

Didn’t know you did that until now

Then all the missing pieces were found

Made the most original picture of you

And the smoke turned to clouds

Gray skies turned periwinkle blue

I grabbed your hand and looked down

Saw my hands folded in my lap

and every face I made

Was reflected right back

And this whole time I swore

I was looking for a knight

But I was reaching for a sword

Cutting off all those kind of lies

As I unclenched my fist 

Let the energy take hold of me

Now I’m ready for this

Amethyst 

And all the pieces were found

Made the most original picture of you...

Didn’t know it was you until now

Love Always,

Lainey

 

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Moon Stone

There’s a dying match 

Didn’t quite catch the wick

Don’t know what’s in the dark

But maybe it’s how I like it

I close my eyes to see

But you can find my eyes

If you close yours too

An hour past midnight

We start to see things 

Like secrets of what’s next

Some we don’t believe though 

But some can’t dodge the mess

The moon turned me to stone

It does that sometimes

It’s how I step outside myself

When there’s shadow there’s light 

When the healing hurts

More than the wound

Take a little detour

From these cycles we go through

There’s a dying match 

Didn’t quite catch the wick

Don’t know what’s in the dark

But maybe it’s how I like it

Love Always,

Lainey

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Cracks of Light

Ocean salt falls between the cracks

Burns before it heals

Numb to the feel

Unfamiliar but it’s nice

Earth shakes the ground breaks

The world is upside down

Don’t look both ways

Maybe it’s just a phase

So many days I’ve lost count

The sun falls with the sky 

Another night to do this right

At least that’s what I tell myself

A truth I’ll never tell

It’s just not worth the fight 

That’s the part that stays in the dark

Can’t hide the broken pieces

When light bleeds through them

Don’t look for patterns tracing these lines

You’ll get lost in what’s yours and mine

Love always,

Lainey

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