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• Heartless - by Sadye Butler

  The mysterious molten center Beats Erupts On a Friday night Still air Cigarette smoke A transparent heart On the curb Abandoned Broken I watch as its limbs recoil in the rain A murderous action One of death That spills a drop of my mind As I travel down a tunnel It awakes Beats twice Then falls back to the sidewalk Reaches out for a hand that I cannot offer It receives no air Mist Rain And I watch The last beat The heart full of broken dreams Lost love letters Lies still My eyes disobey my mind Listening to my…  Read Full Story »

• Don't You Hate It ? - by Sadye Butler

  Don’t you hate Goodbyes Every useless mumbled word That made you cry The times when you’re about to break But figure lets give it one more try Because encouragement lets you fall Trip on a cloud in the sky And you hate yourself You hate me And we all know why Don’t you hate The tears That transparent liquid that fills your eyes Caused by fears The times you couldn’t bare To look in a mirror Scared of what you’d see While they were here Don’t you hate The final call The fate depends on it all But you figure…  Read Full Story »

• Along the Lines - by Sadye Butler

  Friendship isn’t something we loose Like car keys It’s not something that can be faked It doesn’t fade from exposure to the sun But rather from being locked on the top shelf in a closet of priorities for too long Friendship doesn’t get up and walk away On meaty little legs it stands tall Prepared to withstand years, even centuries It leaves an imprint in not only your heart But your very soul There’s only so much you can say In a phone call Only so much you can write In a letter Friendship doesn’t make any choices In fact…  Read Full Story »

• Less than Dust - by Sadye Butler

  I heard the voice reach down from the clouds Touch the earth with such longing Watched the birds fly As I let the moonlight free Let all its power embrace me With a locket and a key I let my very soul befriend me Actions speak loud and clear But I was so locked up no one could get near My heart was wrapped in chains No love could ever explain The feeling of loosing your own key Survival becomes a necessity Never would I let myself go free Ripped around the heart Letting myself break apart Crumbling to less…  Read Full Story »

• Fix You - by Sadye Butler

  If you cracked down the middle I’d give you half of myself To fill the emptiness So that when I hear your heart beat I’d know That somewhere inside Is a piece of myself I’d be sure to catch your tears Turn them into diamonds And make you smile With my magic trick I promise never to fail you When you need me I’m by your side Not because you called But because I’ll never leave I don’t know how to say What I feel when I’m with you It’s enough to make an old man young again It’s beautifully…  Read Full Story »

• 3 in the Afternoon - by Sadye Butler

  He sat on the bench Birds scattered around him Like bread crumbs Some on his shoulder Some on his feet As if he was a carcass.  Read Full Story »

• Crossing the Line - by Sadye Butler

  What does it mean To pity your reflection? If I look into a mirror And smears of dirt Of ugliness Stare back Am I the one who is dirty? Is there some way I can come clean?  Read Full Story »

• My Tea - by Sadye Butler

  My tea smells of cinnamon hearts Broken and bleeding Over yesterdays tears And today’s battles It leaks purple red from the bag Turning its back on me My own heart develops a shadow Somewhere to tuck away Able to hide from the unnecessary anger I look down into my once clear mug It’s now stained With long nights Harsh words And partial truths I search for words And imagine them unravelling in the steam Spelling out ‘love’ or ‘happiness’ or something equally hopeless Then I realize That I am broken and bleeding Just like my tea.  Read Full Story »

• Together We`re Better - by Sadye Butler

  In all honesty Maybe I was unnecessarily cruel But I had to pour all the pain you caused me Back into you Maybe it wasn’t right But tonight so few things are They’ve lost their shine The insight inside what makes them chime A lost dime spinning repetitive circles Those times you screamed to stop But somehow the brake line was cut It left you alone Even though I promised that you could be mine We all just need more time So we can stop pretending we’re fine Stop pretending that the final fabric we’re composed of isn’t on fire…  Read Full Story »

• Cardboard`s Companion - by Sadye Butler

  Whispering words of courage A dark alley Damp from a previous rain A softened cardboard box Splattered with last nights dreams Heavy with today’s realizations It is here he kneels With a sigh he regains his upright posture With a grimace to the clouds He stomps on his soul Sure to leave a footprint A small reminder of all the days he was able to endure Resisting the temptation to perish by his own hand Just a lonely man On the streets Dimly lit with a persistent flame Meant to be more Than cardboard’s companion Caught in the rain The…  Read Full Story »

• Hope;Hoping - by Sadye Butler

  A penny for my thoughts Oh no I’ll sell them for a dollar Toss your coins down the bottomless wells Dreaming of a day Maybe its tomorrow But if you don’t wake up We’ll never know Some things leave And others imprint Sweet memories And harmless harmonies Tell the story you’ve been writing But keep the pen moving It’s not time to read now Oh no You’ll save this for a day A day full of goodbyes A fearless flight you’ll take Don’t let the terror Take over your eyes Because soon enough you’ll forget A penny for my thoughts…  Read Full Story »

• Hollow - by Sadye Butler

  A cool breeze awakens me Unable to stand I fall to my knees Unable to please Every awaking need The sun glares at me And retreats into darkness Not to mark defeat But to show me I am less Left to attend the mess of emotion A current of commotion Pulls me under My lungs compress Left with nothing to shake the hollowness inside my chest A faint beat subsides I hear the bubbles pop to the surface I lie here Immobile Like a child who had a nightmare Unaware that like these air bubbles A time will come when…  Read Full Story »

• Subtlety of the Sun - by Sadye Butler

  If ever I could fly It would be now A mirror held to my eye Blinds me from the outside in I can touch the depth of the skies Reach in feel their light overlap mine Fluttering wings in my stomach Frantically search for a way out Somewhere that’s not so dark Not so cold I feel freely Letting the wind, the sun, the air Expose themselves to me It tingles my soul Lets me feel whole for a fraction of a second Why have my feet not left the ground The gravity restricts my wants Holds me down I…  Read Full Story »

• Shattered Daylight - by Sadye Butler

  I wanted to tell you how wrong you were About all those songs you said applied to us Instead you took away the trust Lied to ‘us’ Took my hand Lead me far away Told me to sit To stay I froze in your grasp Trying to figure out what’s next Blizzard of snow Of loss Of tears It cost me years of sorrow To pay for happiness It’s not a test of your intelligence But rather love How far would you go Just to show someone you care Tell them you will be there Don’t let go of your…  Read Full Story »

• Freedom - by Sadye Butler

  Dreams are iridescent light bulbs Shining even if we try to turn them off There’s no force to exert upon No cost to be paid To be alone and afraid is sufficient I suppose To loose ones mind and be trapped in someone else’s clothes Burning the bridges Closing the door Making a gap between who you are And who you were before But contradictions and false statements stand in your way There are no wings you can grow Though, do throw objects around It’s supposed to relieve stress Told to believe in your dreams Having to assess a lost…  Read Full Story »

• May As Well - by Sadye Butler

  Somebody had to be steady The truth steps aside for a good story Imagining my home makes me ache with loneliness I never felt like I belonged anywhere I was trying to save him some pain May as well say good bye now anyway I brushed the dust Bluebottles and cobwebs off You have no idea What makes me happy I was surprised at how I felt Unable to tell him that I had deceived everyone On him I staked all my chances I was planning on running home But loving him now Was enough to turn my back on…  Read Full Story »

• Window Shopping - by Sadye Butler

  It’s not about what I want My dreams shrink into the background Without my voice they make no sound I try to remind myself that reality Is outside my door I’m too busy looking out the window I can’t turn around anymore.  Read Full Story »

• Forgive - by Sadye Butler

  I feel as though I’m drawing figure eights repetitively Not realizing that in the process I’ve given you the power to detonate my will to live I watch my pencil perform magic It’s just a trick Hold still I’ve sold my soul and it’s taken a toll on your will to decide I know inside you’re just scared Paralyzed by your own fear I perform no magic trick to disappear We’ve been caught in the act Taught that too forgive isn’t enough Our skins too deep for them to rattle us We’ve hopped on the saddle Holding trust in one…  Read Full Story »

• Follow Me - by Sadye Butler

  I am my hearts glow When my soul is empty I’m the girl on the left I don’t point fingers I find it’s easy to stick them where they don’t belong Time is a measurement And we’re always worried About how much is left Just so we can live a long life After 15 years of experience I still don’t know how to work my brain So I don’t worry it with thoughts of time I’m the kernel on the bottom of the Cracker Jack box Never the prize I’m the frame But I still haven’t made it in the…  Read Full Story »

• Clouds - by Sadye Butler

  We used to whisper secrets here Behind the elm tree Carve our names into the bark We’ll be here forever And we used to think about the future Our own children’s carvings Coming to grips with the facts Forever is impossible Forever is just a dream  Read Full Story »

• Cold - by Sadye Butler

  He claims I have powers to repair With no love in his heart We have no middle ground Plastered smiles pretending Shatter trust like the broken parts of us Revive myself Cold seeps in between those I thought I knew Turn around Try again With no love in his heart We have no middle ground  Read Full Story »

• Frost - by Sadye Butler

  My heart is coated in snowflakes Frosted with falling snow An icy sheen of love Blinds anyone from getting too close Cold, cold heart of mine I let you free once Only to have you betray my mind I saw a glimpse of my reflection In a frosted snow globe My world is shaken A white blizzard of snow  Read Full Story »

• Hopelessly Entangled - by Sadye Butler

  Accepting who I am isn’t any easier than watching you spread your crimson wings in the sunlight Shattering all thoughts in pure daylight Blinding beauty beating away each wave of heat It’s so hard to look you in the face You glow with a grace that’s only found inside And when you cried there were no tears Just loose feathers I can’t begin to explain what stirs in your heart Something so strong and yet vulnerable You’re intoxicatingly magnetic Drawn to you by something I can’t control Unable to pause or think Unable to say no However strong your power…  Read Full Story »

• Hershey's Kisses - by Sadye Butler

  I’m in a state of bliss Melting with Hersey kisses Flying with butterflies who wear their hearts on their wings Beautiful creatures trapped in diamond rings Caressed by a sea of chocolate The arms of elegance Created only to teach us respect A kind of intellect they expect To be offered and incline One decision collides into your snow globe Shattered world falls open To have hoped that you’d see the sun set again Cloudy vision of previous events Sent to make you remember Loosing yourself in cold days of December Wrapped up in a blanket of sorrow with the…  Read Full Story »

• Thief - by Sadye Butler

  I thought I could get away Steal a piece of tomorrow And wished I could have stayed Nothing left to say I’ve picked up the missing pieces Tried for a new start Then you walk in like nothing has changed And I feel the pain I’ll soon cause your heart When looking into your ocean eyes How do you lie to a blue sky? I threw the stone into the water Ripples flowed with the river I felt my cheeks grow hotter What’s done is done But I think you should know You’re not the only one with regrets And…  Read Full Story »

• Cracked - by Sadye Butler

  Our own daughter of truth runs a jagged line between us How do we fix her? How do you repair something as fragile as trust Without first having to bust open the opening that it all began with? Leaving you with a pile of frail angel's dust Because in order to fix ourselves we had to combust everything she is Break her wings Bring her down So we can look into her eyes with sadness and despair Tell her that she doesn't have to run because we'll always be there But she notices the tilt to our heads The way…  Read Full Story »

• Need - by Sadye Butler

  You could help me Heal me even But you have a quality that blinds me From seeing who I really am Like a diamond in the sun You’re beauty cannot be re-drawn You’re past cannot be un-done Trapping slivers of your grace In threads in my sweater So that I can hold you close And feel a little better Eyes like a rain forest Too deep to venture into the depth I can’t see what you hide But then again I know you too well So much that I know turning back Is a mistake That in order to leave…  Read Full Story »

• Wild is the Wind - by Sadye Butler

  Caress a pink rose petal Drifting in the winds of innocence Take me somewhere I belong Midnight strolls into daylight A picnic basket on her arm Quietly slipping away Twisting the thorns of emotions Naïve sense of wonder Taking me somewhere I don’t belong Starless night and a little girls cry Soft as ivory Pure as first snowfall These are times we forget all about Who we are And just let go  Read Full Story »

• Capture - by Sadye Butler

  You’ve stained a piece of me So I will always remember The ease of your laughter The comfort of your smile I used to try and hold onto time Too scared of mistakes but around you I could see my missed opportunities I could see myself clearly No judgments Just trust with truth The honesty of you I used to try and capture What you meant to me But things like us are much too wild They have a need to be free How could I possibly cage such magnified beauty? Things like this didn’t belong behind bars Much to…  Read Full Story »

• Somewhere - by Sadye Butler

  I’m ripped open Hallowed by your stare No room for cloudy voices Choking on choices in thin air My skin reflects like tin, not glass It’s able to pass you pieces of my past Ceasing to believe the time has come at last  Read Full Story »

• Despite - by Sadye Butler

  I want to disappear Somewhere with you Forget all about who I’m supposed to be And just breathe easy So even if you can’t hear what I’m saying At least I’m saying it No longer denying what my eyes Were telling me.  Read Full Story »

• Cure - by Sadye Butler

  How can I be within reach but unable to preach my dreams To all those by standers along the way Not having a voice to say everything inside Like I can’t hand this to you so you’re going to have to come get it Because it has a tendency to expand and hide Better yet, sweat it out so when I touch your skin I’ll know that what lies within is something golden Not just a plain cookie, but one rolled in coconut Unable to come undone or unwind Because this time the knot was tied for real A deal…  Read Full Story »

• Curtains - by Sadye Butler

  I look away because they say that the eyes are the windows to the soul And in order to let you in I’d have to show you the broken pieces that left me far from whole Some days I dream of following the stars Leaving myself stuck in between the unknown and an emotion grown into dumbstruck Not realizing that while we left the smiles on our faces The sadness didn’t travel to the other places we wished it would grace But as I laced together the moments we crossed paths I found myself looking into my own eyes, following…  Read Full Story »

• Reason - by Sadye Butler

  From the outside you may know the answer lies within But you have no idea of the hidden sin Of how goodbyes turned inside out They shook, battled, and undid the ties that previously bound the inside together Took them till they rattled and rid the lies from partial truths Like undoing the threads in a sweater And trying to sew together something better So your wounds don't sting or sink like lead When your heart stops beating Is that when you're pronounced dead? Now your retreating, the guilty criminal, that's you Accepting defeat in a fate that sticks to…  Read Full Story »

• Plain and Simple - by Sadye Butler

  You could break hearts But instead you prefer to pull them apart Dig a stake in so deep that there's no hope to take away from a new start They say time heals But when the pain is so surreal I can't begin to believe that I'll ever achieve my dreams Because taking the wheel was a big enough deal I'm sorry for every time I skipped a meal Just so when you held me all you'd feel was bone So that maybe you wouldn't feel so alone Be able to peel back your shield and save me Forget about…  Read Full Story »

• Sinking - by Sadye Butler

  Sinking like the sunset to the places lost dreams go How did I let myself get this low? I used to be the first to wake at mornings call But somewhere I forgot pieces of myself And now I fall Weighed down with the stares of strangers Ventured in too deep to recognize the dangers When you lose this much of yourself Who’s to say you’re worth it Certainly stranded far from perfect I’m sinking behind the mountains Hoping they’ll hide my pain It takes too long to look back And we all know that it’s not just love I…  Read Full Story »

• Judgment - by Sadye Butler

  There are things we fear And things we need Told to be great, expected to succeed Sometimes it’s hard to understand Hard to categorize when You’ve only got so much in your hand Is this when you fold Or make a bold move? It’s all wrapped up in who you are And where you’re going Knowing we’re not supposed to be Showing our cards Simply because they are ours Sometimes though The line blurs And we’re left to define what it means Is it something we fear Or something we need?  Read Full Story »

• Life Lesson - by Sadye Butler

  Every seed you planted in my head Embedded itself in my brain So that every time I bled you washed ashore The moments where I wished I could be more Than just naïve More than I could ever believe Just one thought could conceive thousands of actions One move set off countless reactions Without you I’d have nothing to look forward to Thankfully I’m just enough for you And it’s not tough to fit together our rough edges Rather easy to see where the lit room gets its shadows from Being overcome with an emotion so much like an ongoing…  Read Full Story »

• Fine Lines - by Sadye Butler

  My heart bleeds too much Please let it stop You ask “What’s on your mind?” And I wish I could reply honestly Without scaring you away  Read Full Story »

• Your Voice - by Sadye Butler

  The stars spelled out your name And at first I didn’t understand Crisscrossing from Mars to Jupiter In order to hold your hand My hearts cold center Was melted into parts That you melded back together So that they fit with yours And when you spoke into my veins Sang your song to my blood Broke into my body I fell in love Overpowered with feelings So deeply hidden inside of me They were freed at the sound of your voice Grounded by my choice How could I not believe in you? You showed me how to fly When among…  Read Full Story »

• Changes - by Sadye Butler

  The worst thing about the unexpected Is that you never see it coming Spending too much time running away You’re dismayed when you realize it’s caught up And there’s nothing you can do anymore to lose touch Bending too much Breaking too fast Letting go of the last words in a short breath Taking small steps And finding yourself lost among the wreck But it’s not time to let your cuts bleed It’s time to plant the seed of eternity Let it flow through your veins Give power to the feelings that have been illuminated as plain and simple Make…  Read Full Story »

• Small Town Lullaby - by Sadye Butler

  I can’t tell you where I am right now But I could show you where I’ve been Where the streets cross And say hello to one another like neighbours The kind that borrow sugar And alternate who picks up the mail There’s no smoke here No tricks Just people that are trying to get where they want to be And the skylights you don’t have to open No blinds to pull away Because today it’s sunny I’ve never thought about this more than now Some things become routine And if we all closed our windows there’d be no breeze to…  Read Full Story »

• Intertwined - by Sadye Butler

  If I could I’d fly take your hand Run with wings and fairytales There’s no more rain on the window No more dark skies I’d like to fall into your open eyes Feel the rise and fall with every breath Stuck beneath the shadows forms The stranger’s sweet smile No longer swimming through the seas of loneliness Instead embedded on a shore of happiness I wish away the worries of tomorrows Face today by standing with the sun You’re the one I run to Run through forests and jungles Tangled with your fingers in my hair The winds of my…  Read Full Story »

• Blue Eyes - by Sadye Butler

  Blue Eyes You can write volumes and you’ll never know what this feels likes How the wild wind wraps around the thin branches but doesn’t break their beauty In short breaths we stop to take in pieces of everything we’ve ever known; The trees we’ve grown with that climb to the stars, scattered light in your eyes reflected by the sun’s stare Pen on paper the blue ink seeps into the deep oceans of regret we’ve swam through to touch the hands of the calloused workers; Caress the notes of a lullaby sing the words of harmless beauty a melody…  Read Full Story »

• Hurt - by Sadye Butler

  I think about you all the time Thinking about if you’re somewhere thinking of me My heart beats in rhythm with yours You finish my sentences Steal my breath from my lips I can’t believe you want to hold me in your arms at night Looking at where we are and where we’re been Knowing that whatever tomorrow brings I’ll face it with you No longer hoping Now forever living with happiness It scares me sometimes but those are rare moments Because when I look into your eyes And you look into mine We interlock our souls But I know…  Read Full Story »

• For A Moment - by Sadye Butler

  Promise me you’ll never let me go because in your arms I’m safe no longer forced to face the world alone And I may be a broken soul but I trust you to hold me fitting myself back together piece by piece For a moment can we just pretend that this promise, if made won’t bend till it breaks unable to hold all the extra weight of truth Because I know you can’t give this to me even if you wanted to because I know it will only hurt us more but I still wish you could complete me.  Read Full Story »

• Come Back - by Sadye Butler

  Ever watched time fly Unravel its wings from the dusty air Soar into a new day Why can’t I be carefree? Must I always reach for perfection? Landing short from my goals While everyone else is dancing I find myself asleep Eyes closed Mind wide open Hoping for a time machine So you could travel back to me No longer caught in the hands of time But freed to the days when you were mine Such a simple silly happiness Come back to me And I’ll make you believe that there was no reason to leave in the first place…  Read Full Story »

• Everything I Am - by Sadye Butler

  Hold me tightly in your arms set me free among the music of our hearts I remember all those things you whispered in my ear our love is heavy in my chest beautifully blinding to my eyes diamonds burning with secrets and moments laced with your scent I hold onto the fire let it embrace my body releasing all I am to everything you are and when I stand against the night sky I'll shine for you  Read Full Story »

• Angel - by Sadye Butler

  you can hear her cry, if you listen like a delicate spider web spun with beauty, but not enough strength to resist destruction embossed with dew drops and starting overs designed to be broken  Read Full Story »

• Curtains Of Rain - by Sadye Butler

  no one knows me like you do no one holds me like you do i may be a bruised & lonely soul but i’ve still got time to hold and they tell me you know how to heal a broken soul i was once wild & free reckless as the wind that breaks the trees unpredictable like phone calls that bring you to your knees i can hear you call my name through all the storm clouds & curtains of rain it gives me strength to hold on even if, for not very long  Read Full Story »

• Devotion - by Sadye Butler

  How do we allow ourselves to become so tangled? succumb to a mangled mess where all our threads cross in positions of hopelessness I can’t even figure out who I am I want to know how it feels to stand on solid land no plans for failure, just wasted hope, eventually it all goes up in smoke Where do I go when you’re all I’ve ever known? and even I know, you’re all I ever want to know please, don’t let me go Does time help, does it ease the pain? is there a way to escape, am I supposed…  Read Full Story »

• Road Map of Hearts - by Sadye Butler

  Follow me to the edge of my earth depth of my Deepest ocean a broken branch from my family tree fallen rose petals, deep Red, shallow How do we overcome who we’re supposed to be? to find ourselves among our Broken hearts scarred dreams, burnt fingerprints embedded beneath my fingernails dirt of your Smile like the scum between pond stones those words only spoken at night Because to let sunlight in would be like allowing you to Kiss me in front of my parents  Read Full Story »

• return journey - by Sadye Butler

  s p l i t all that matters and call it COURAGE three songs seven kisses in a row bring you back to --> me bring you home  Read Full Story »

• Forgotten Ones - by Sadye Butler

  it was different than that, but that’s what I got out of it leave that one better with all or none we pause more, they sink into our conscience rearrange the words call + response back + forth very few words, but every one counts it just ends like that I just lost it not sure how to make that kind of piece hold together you kind of forget those lines the ones that make the others matter  Read Full Story »

• skyward - by Sadye Butler

  i can't hold you to the ground can't expect you to not fly just for me we both know my wings are broken and you are meant for the clouds think of me when rain falls from your world to mine i'll dream of you every night  Read Full Story »

• Solve me? - by Sadye Butler

  I feel trapped in a conundrum a jigsaw puzzle with missing pieces I’m not made to solve and even if you do put me together I’ll never add up never really be whole.  Read Full Story »

• Dirty Laundry - by Sadye Butler

  If I was to lean into the comforts of you would you let me? Or merely wipe away my memory as not to leave a stain Every time I go back to the beginning it’s always your name, over and over again Printed clearly and burned into my story I’ve denied this a thousand times Telling myself that every lie held the truths hand and I didn’t want to believe that lovers cheated Somehow I cannot erase you Not with the repeated strokes of heartbreak or the release of letting go I just thought you should know, you’re still there…  Read Full Story »

• Selfish - by Sadye Butler

  Sometimes fear is just too alive it wraps around the queasy muscle of the heart and deflates all other feeling.  Read Full Story »

• 5000 Miles... And then some - by Sadye Butler

  I wear you like a shadow Constant reminder of what I’m m-i-ss-ing Closing my eyes closes the gap Between u<--->s I feel you like I once did Waking every morning with My ♥ Half way around the world  Read Full Story »