Empty........ Empty

Running on Empty
© N Noël Nov 2008



My mind is empty my soul so full.
Making it through each day don’t
know, how why or if I should.
Give up, walk away run or fall down.
Each day runs together no noise or music just silence
hitting the ground.

Running on empty today and yesterday.
My mind is empty but my soul so full.
Keep dragging my worries and yester years just a bucket full of tears.
Dripping silently ready to overturn.

Need to drop them escape go far away from here but the shadows keep
Following, whispering, haunting and dancing in my head.
Keep looking for understanding of things that were said.
All the questions are tapped swirling in my head.
This tunnel called my soul is left unfed.

Running on empty my mind is empty my soul so full wish to get out of
this barren neighborhood. Change my zip code, area code start a new
time zone. No records of past mistakes would ever be found. The life I once
knew buried in the ground.

Wrapped up and held down in my own world of thoughts. Get me off
this ride and away from what hurts. Fixed past, what future it’s all the
same just repetition running circles in a small cage.

Running on empty my mind is empty my soul so full starting over may
be an option but which way does one go if you’re walking in circles
knocking on the same door.

Does it ever matter when the outcome is the same
Just can’t be bothered cause it’s all in vain.
Running on empty my mind is empty my soul so full
each day no different yesterday is still today.
Take your chances and just stand still maybe it will all go away.

Scraps of a Life

Remnants
© N Noël Sept 2008

I didn’t make the cut
Didn’t make the grade
Our love wasn’t worth keeping
Just a remnant for sale

No need for words it’s how you behaved.
Threw the scrapes aside, did it with a smile,
No backward glance or shame
Our life just a remnant for sale

You were through found yourself a “new” somebody to entertain or
should I say cause more pain. On “self” is how you played your game.
No “POWS” just “Friendly Fire” for your own desire.
Shredding lives and causing strife.
No raining on your parade.

You came, you took, staked your claim.
It was all a masquerade. Smoke screens and mirrors
I guess I should have figured you out to be the salesman of the hour
Screaming REMNANTS, REMNANTS
This life for sale everything going down the drain!

Left Over Looked Over
Not a trace of a life once shared together
Packed up, pushed away just the dustbin of the day.
You singing “Hurray” thinking you’re the prize yet only adding to the demise.
Yelling Remnants, Remnants you were “Just” the catch of the day.
I win; you lose now out of my way.


Laughing, Joking, very outspoken
confidence you’re broken the
person into a Remnant, Remnant, Remnant
for sale.

Go "All the Way"

All the Way

Love me a lifetime not just a day take life’s

Journey with me go all the way.

Wrap your soul around me all through the storm

Keep me safe no matter the thorns.

When I stumble or am thrown to the ground

Lay with me, wipe the tears away, pull me up and start again.

The journey is just beginning my friend.

Love me a lifetime not just a day take life’s

Journey with me go all the way.

Bruised hearts, bruised egos we’ll go through.

Moments of silence no words to explain the pain this journey can sometimes entail.

Come night fall to day break take my hand, hold on tight,

there will always be a challenge let’s put up the fight.

Laughter, sorrow and pain, joy of a secret we don’t have to explain.

Be a friend, my confidant, my playmate, stand strong no matter the fate.

Love me a lifetime not just a day take life’s

Journey with me go all the way.

No one knows what tomorrow will bring

that’s what they say but I know you will be with me for

more than just a day when all is said and done

You’re my “All the Way”

Love me a lifetime not just a day take life’s

Journey with me go all the way.

The Mirror Calls Back

Mirror Image

© N Noël Jun 2008

Mirror mirror on the wall who’s inside hear my call.

Don’t retreat or except defeat keep moving to your own inner beat.

That reflection it calls back to me wondering where and when it lost

the friend trapped inside that mirror image on the other side.

Did it betray you? Made promises that have not come true?

Is it all a lie that mirror image on the other side.

Can’t call it friend or enemy it’s not just a part it’s all of me.

Can’t turn away forget you exist you will persist until I accept you.

That mirror image on the other side.

Some days a stranger others a friend.

Each day it changes and sometimes offends

That mirror image on the other side.

Will I learn to accept it or fight against in vain? That person

Looking back at me is the essence of who I became.

Mirror mirror on the wall let me stand and not fall.

Support the me I see in you that person I thought I once knew.

Time changes the reflection staring back at you.

Don’t hold fast to that mirror image on the other side.

Move past it grow strong from what’s inside.

Walk Away

© N Noël Feb 2006

Can you walk away from the things that weigh you down

Can you picture life so free your feet

Don’t hit the ground?

Can you see light through your dark skies,

Can you walk away without tears in your eyes

Can you forget the pain your heart may feel that day, can you walk away.

Can you walk away?

Feelings of loss and dread may follow you, but deep inside you know you must save what’s true.

Can you walk away without looking back, reaching backwards to gain what you think you lack

Can you walk away only you would know;

Can you trust yourself to go?

Exhale

Breathe

© N Noël Dec 2003

I learned to breathe again when you left me
I learned to breathe again

I learned that life was much too short to hold my breath waiting for you my friend

I learned to first crawl, walk, then run as fast as the wind
I learned to breathe again
I learned to love me again

Will you walk with me?

In My Shoes

© N Noël Feb 2006

Take a walk in my shoes, tell me how they feel.
Can you feel the roads I’ve traveled?
Can you see the things I’ve seen?
Do you wonder why I cry at night and stumble in my dreams.

Take a walk in my shoes feel the pain that falls upon me when darkness comes my way.
No smooth road to follow just curves no straight away.
Take a walk in these tired weary shoes that never rest but for a day.

Take a walk in my shoes. Live my life and let me know
Would you want to be in my shoes or would you run away?