I am

I am a sheep dog standing ever vigilant 

Watching over the flock

I'm a crash of thunder 

With my hand on the clock

I'm a rain drop dancing on your glass 

You see me in your rear view 

And lure me in your car with cash

I'm a puppet tangled in my own strings on the floor

I'm the wrinkles on the face of a woman scorned 

Who's standing with one foot out the door

I'm the star that never got to shine

I'm lost in space and time

I'm the sculptor who spent his entire life

But never got it right

I'm the poet

Who didn't commit suicide

I'm a child of god

Who never got his fathers approving nod

I'm your first slow dance

At the beginning of love

I'm that first glance

I'm the hopeless romantic who cried in the street

I'm the shame in the eyes of the poor in need

I'm dirty jeans and a long limousine

I'll be most amazing thing you've ever seen

Tomorrow

I'm always your cup half full

 Of sorrow

I'm a rite of passage

Right or wrong

I'm the ruined sheets of your first love song

I am that song

I'm the first light that breaks on a loaded ash tray

A superhero with a broken leg and a torn cape

I'm the sword of the knight who fought in lands first found

I'm the spit on the chin of the wheelchair bound

Who will fight your battles for you?

I'm what a dog is to a lifetime on a chain 

I'm a needle who craves a vein 

Lost in haystack 

I'm a ticket to the vanity fair 

Snorting lines of desert air

I'm a second city street light

I stop and rob and fly by night

I'm the hate you love

The love you hate

I'm the desire to repeat your same mistakes

Brutal comfort and a cold shiver

I'm a whiskey bottle and black liver

I'm loaded dice

So tell me

What's your vice?

Have you loved too much?

I'm the wisdom you've abandoned 

I'm the truth you've demanded

I'm the rust on the lock

Holding tight to the box

Holding tight to the enigma of life

I'm a 1000 mile journey 

That wears on the soles 

I'm the body on the gurney 

Hidden in the folds 

I'm the last chance

The first dance

A pony who can't prance 

First place for the worst in show 

I'm that bird on the wire 

The drunk in the choir 

The penny you always find face down

I'm alone in a crowd

I'm the crack in the leather

The crack in street  

I'm the gutter you pillage 

When you're desperate to eat 

I'm the pop in the vinyl

The tiny space the needle skips 

I'm the nostalgia you can't seem to forget 

That's where I live 

That little gap 

It holds everything, doesn't it?

I'm the name you cry 

When you've forgotten your own

December's first breath you feel in your bones

The reason daddy decided to leave you alone 

I'm the reason you're glad he never came home 

I'm the distance in your eyes

The strap that holds your lovers disguise 

Is that why you hide? 

I'm not each one of those tiny breaths

But the pause in between 

The short silence of knowing 

Baby, I'm all you have left 

I am innate

Intuitive

Silly when I'm naked

       (That makes two of us)

Inanimate 

Flesh and blood you can't help

But scratch at it

I am wise beyond my years

The instinct of fear

Survival of the slimmest

I'm the pageant for the fittest 

The high school girl 

Who just wants to be prettiest!

I'm the power in her chest

The voice from her tongue 

Who's behind the gym

Spilling her lunch

I'm everything you always wanted

I'm proof you want too much