Higher Resolution

Take me with you
To the place you dwell
Where light sets brightly
Upon harmony's fell

Where joy echoes so clearly
That none can tell

This Time of Year

I've seen desire & pain
But I always thought
That I'd see you again

The Best Present

All I want for Christmas
Is to be free

Pathos

When we realize how much
We really hate ourselves
Then it's no wonder why
Our lives are the way
They are

Freedom

Dan surrenders
And I arise

I Never Thought I'd Live to be Four Decades

Perhaps it's time to do
The things that I've always wanted to

Unacceptable

Sometimes I wake up
And wish I didn't

I am Dan's Pointless Rage

To work unhappily
Just to buy more crappily
To be boss's slave
Or the town knave
Makes sense to whom
And begs the question:
Who I am
And who are you?

No Thanks Giving

To need a job
To live
To have to do
What they tell you to do
Or else  
Even if it's silly
And you don't want to do it 
Is a slavery so profound
That we don't even look at it
Anymore

Who's the One Who's Afraid of Losing His Job?

In a time
When meaning
Is given no meaning
You could regret what you said
But it wouldn't matter
Anyway

Doomed

No hope- for me
For one slip
Is all they need
To send me down
To agony

Afraid to speak
Afraid to reach
Afraid to love
Unable to see

Learning to fall
Hoping to die
My only hope
Is holding I

Why I Stay in Virginia

I need to be there
For them
Because a life past
Is too much to bear
Alone
And that is why
I stay
In Virginia

Haunted Life

One decision, long ago
About life
Haunted the boy
For the rest of his life

Addendum to Peter Cetera & Amy Grant

Next time I fall in love
I'll make sure
To not end up
In a place
Where I cannot escape
And anywhere else
Is worse

Every Sunday

Every Sunday I see them go
And wait to see them tomorrow

These Dreams

Such fears that come
And such wonder too

The Black Wall of Despair

It smothers him
As he cries
In the night
Of the pain
And loss
Of what could have been

He looks out
At the world
But sees only
Despair
And sadness
And the Black Wall
That he had put in

She Once Was a True Love of Mine

Does she remember me too?
No other one will really do

Loving You

Loving you is not wanting
It is who I really am

Long Drop

Sometimes
The noose can become so tight
That my only hope
Is I

Beyond Despair

To let you go, my love

Is beyond despair
for me

And freedom
for you

She Died in My Arms

I could come up with reason
For all my self-hatred
And fear of disaster

But that would just be
Just another
Story

Enslaved

Damned if I do
Damned if I don't
Is trapped
In a story
Where I cannot win
And any hope
Will never
Begin

Black

He suffers so deeply
Long sadness within
Such vicissitudes of life
And to see her again

Making a Dying

That making a living
Is what drains you of your life
And makes you wonder why

Turn Away

If she wanted to
Be with me
I'd tell her to
Find someone
Better

Miss-ery

Not for me

Celibate Celebrate

Not wanting to want
Can be wanting too
And both are equally
Meaningless

Forget About Me...

To wonder which mistake
Will be the one that breaks

IgA

Is it the resistance
That enslaves
Rather than not?

Steady as She Goes

No matter how I've tried
I've never found
A problem
In I

Night Falls

Night falls
On the walls
Of all that didn't love me

I pray
Each day
For that care to leave me

Daniel in Chains

'I don't mind, yeah
I don't mind
Lost my mind, yeah
I don't mind'

Deck Hand

Alone in his room
Alone in his house
What really changes?

A Dan done(d)

Is it stranger that they don't write back
Or that I still think it's strange?

Perhaps I'll die

When this body can take
no more
Of what this world does have
in store

All that I will be left to say
Is that I love you, God,
in every way

The Burning I

Perhaps I'll never find
The right woman
Or a fulfilling job
Or a cure for my allergies

But I can let go
And it won't be as painful

Freya

You're there when I need you
Because I always do

Smashing Soma?

She led me on
So I let her go
As well as them all
As well as Dan O

Dan on the Borderlands

Is the borderline of me
This body from which I see
Or the land beyond my trees
Or my banking minus fees?

Is the borderline of me
An account on computer frieze
A honey sharing dreams
Or beyond the world and free?

Karen

Goodbye, my friend
It won't be the same without you

Hey Rollins, hey

He sleeps alone at night
He often wonders why

Im Person All

All my fears involve people
And all my desires too
I can suffer in separation
And wanting freedom true

Gorge-Us

The beauty I cannot touch
The love I cannot hold
Except in my heart

Odr's Rest

Do you still cry
Tears of gold
Over me?

In the Den

Eyes on God
Not on the lions

Independence Day

What I hold
Just holds me stronger
So I let go
And suffer no longer

Perhaps

Perhaps it's folly
To seek love in another

For you have always been
With me
Anyway