go back......
lights fade in and out
color mixing with sound
i never wanted you to go away
i move in and out
i don't make a sound
i carry it with me
everywhere
walking down the street
cars are keeping the beat
movement mixing with sound
it follows me everywhere
lights fade in and out
color mixing with sound
movement mixing with sound

aj ingham 2002
i hide behind my bold front
to keep my feelings at bay
and i peek at you through the window
so you can't run away
i just lock myself out
i just close myself in
but often i find that closing my eyes does away with the weight go the day
because it gradually gets darker
and i like it light
the way i run to you
and then away from you
twice three maybe four times a night
to have arms that hold me
so i can drift silently into the night
the softness of a hand to hold
the beauty of the contrast
your arms against my own
the blue of your eyes
can pierce me sometimes
pierce me sometimes
pierce me sometimes
your eyes pierce me sometimes

aj ingham 2001
all of the poems and songs on this page are copyrighted so if your stealing watch your back.
Drug Store 3am
half way between the way you are
and how i am
Cafe Half A Block Away
we've been sitting here in silence
but i have so much to say
you don't like me because i ask you to feel
i want you to see something absolutely real
Car Ride Headed Home
your going home to her
i am going home
Wide Awake laying in bed
regretting all the things i never should have said
Ten In The Morning
phone ringing i wonder who's calling
answering machine....... "hi it's me"

scramble to get out of bed... where the hell is the phone?
too late.  dial tone.
Get Back Into Bed
bitter and alone

i'm never moving again,  i'm never answering the phone
i am going to stay here in my bed,  no more figuring you out
no more midnight poems,  no more sappy songs,
no more dancing in the kitchen.....your gone.

aj ingham 2002
don't take the words out of my mouth
and rearrange them in some beautiful way
not as i am walking out the door......
not as i am looking away......
don't ask questions you don't want the answers to
try not to examine the ratio of me to you
it's too cold out lets go back in....
it's too cold out here i can't stand the wind....
don't question my motives
i know not what i do
it's something new well......
it's something
don't look away when i look at you
don't take the words out of my mouth
don't let the day fade away
don't worry about me
don't worry about me
take everything i say
and rearrange it in some beautiful way
and paint the picture of how things are going to be
examine the ratio of you and me
let me know tell me what you see
tell me something tell me anything
i'm paying attention
waiting with bated breath
i can't sleep
i can't get any rest
not until i hear from you
don't question my motives
i know not what i do   aj ingham 2002
scissor sharp
just glides along the seam
piercing the one thing i had left to say
cut off mid-sentance

like always
judged before questioned
because i love the media
a conspiracy
a thick plot
i love anything hard to swallow
a tangible moment if you will
i'll perch here
until the glory fades
with nothing to say
until i choke
and i hate the cold
but i love crisp air
i will sink down
and slouch in my chair
doubting what is the majorities truth
i know the truth
i watched this unravel
i saw it coming
i did nothing to stop it 

aj ingham 2001
the cars driving by are more of a distraction
then an obsticle...
i am not trying to dodge anyone anymore than i am trying to understand them..
and no the room does not fall apart
when you are not in it..
it's just cold and dimly lit..
you want to be able to say all these amazing things
but you never can
you never have the words to say what it is you are really trying to say
can you hide behind your formalities?
or can you keep everything so strait laced that it hurts to move
you can't move
you are too scared that another wrong move could spell disaster.....
you are hiding behind your eyes again
but that's the first place i am going to look for you
calculated decisions...
how much thought did you really put into it?
if any?
you can't talk to anyone in person...
because conversation is just a waste of time
do you really need to have a tone of voice?
without it you could be saying what you really want to say
but i guess you don't look at it that way..
do you?
aj ingham 2002
the canvas could stretch for miles and i would still never be done painting the pain you radiate sometimes
but you perfer the delicate to the fierce so it seems so i'll just sit here and wade inbetween wondering if your ok and knowing your not
the thing i can't stomach is seeing you choke it all down and fake it out all over town.
and yeah there is an escape in silence or so you seem to think......
but your never as alone as often as you'd like to be and your never as abandoned as you seem to think i could be jumping up and down waving my arms for your attention and you'd point at something pretty forgetting to notice i was standing there
the canvas ran out an hour ago so now i am painting the ground you walk on pretty colors so you can smile when you look down. 
Aj Ingham 2002
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