~Missteps~

on and on
the rain falls
those hazy days
I still remember
weoghing
the seashells

there's no
darkness now
I  can't
overcome
it's not
wasy
loving me

don't forget
to count
yourselt in
I don't mind
not knowing
where I'm heading
looking like
regret
eyes that
know me
we still
have time

swing my
heart
across
your line
between the right
and wrong
a little
bit hazy
the future
is unclearI

try
even though
I know I
might fail
breathless moments
are worth
the brreaking down

trying to
find a way
around
before I drown
in the sound

there are
misteps and mistakes
you can make
not going att the way
and starting
down the unpredictable
uneven
road

I need
wide open
spaces to
breath again
don't tell
me anything
if you don't
believe it
~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Unknown~

weather you
succeed or not
is irevalant
there is no such thing
as making your unknown
the most important
thing
and making your unknown
known
is beyond us

I heard that
somewhere
the sweetest thing
I've ever known
was fingertips
on the small
 of my back
 aching
and unknown

build my
world
with stains
of dreams
in a glittering
spiderweb
your time
will come
if you wait
for it

I'm so glad
I found you
sometimes I forget
how fragile
we are

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Awake~

fall
into these
feeling
mysterious ways
an unamed
deverged path

sometimes
feeling pain
reminds you
you can
feel

we would
be lost
without the gate keepers
sometimes
to feel love
you have to
be a stranger

I feel this
emotion
coming on
I've seen it
no regrets

you can tell
by the hesitation
of our smile
I want to
feel that complete

were two hearts
bound for
different paths
this moment
keeps slipping away
and I
get scared
but I need
to stay
awake

I will carve
out memories
life always
moves on
the pages turn
with that smile

brightens
the passing days
nothing
comes with
a gauruntee

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~New Road~

call my name
don't walk on by
a curtain of gray satin
silver blur
caress and falls
don't forget
about me

tea roses
sugar satin
and delicate
a string
if you pull
will unravel

I'm a puppet
on your sting
take it easy
on my heart

underneath
the stars
I am awake
don't say
a word
something to
admire

fight the
glare
have to
fight for now
kisses
not enough

you take me
spin me
off guard
and ask me
if I have time
for a new
road

baby
climbing the walls
gets you nowhere
undercover
on the street

I hope
it's going
to make you notice
I want to freefall
into places
I can't reach
into nothing
a repreive

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Little Moments~

dreams
dancing in and out
of dreams
I'll be
alright
a neon moon
velvet sweet

burning
trapped in the past
for too long
I've lived in this place
time to move on
it'll never allow me
to change

in the
icy sky
a whirling dirvish
no one
is really alone

I'll keep
you warm
like a sweater
I had to
loose to
find out
so many roads
but you don't know
where you've been

a coin
tossed into
a wishing fountain
I live for
little moments
like that

change
and the slow tick
of our
antique clock

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Way back~

you don't \know
what it's like
to be at a crossroads
and not know
which way
to go

wide-eyed
honey
you know
who you are
polity
just you

where the
wound can't
ind us
that sounds
wonderful

I want someone
to lean on
in case
one of us falls

thank you
for helping
me find
the way back
to who
I was
I don't feel
like an
illusion anymore
the hills
in the
distance
are seasons
beating out
of time

~Sarah Mahina Calvello`

~Shades~

would you think
of me
the same
even if
we know
there are no
happy endings?

I believe you
could love me
but were lost
on a boat
of emotion
I have
been paitent

trying
not to 
loose my grip
on the reality
that's left

shades
of secrets
hit the pavement
and stars
that tremble
mirroring
each other
if found

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Blink~

you were
supposed to
dream in color
but you
dream
in waves
don't put
the blame
on me

it's just
another melancholy
night still
there is a beauty
in the breaking

a mosaic
of water parting
like trembling whispers
delicate sugar
trapped like
angels and edges
you slipped away
something lost
but gained

from ups
and downs
I'm all around
it rained
if only
I knew
the right
words
I would know
your heart

living with illusions
 got me down
I reach for you
but can
only fall
away now

I miss
sweetness
face something
that I've
always known
a glitter bomb
inside

but there
is always tomorrow
a blink
of an eye
a whisper
of smoke
sometimes
even dreamers
wake up

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Velvet Sweet~

the sun
breaks out
even though
tarnished
still hoping
unlock
the gate

i think
the moon
is full
giddy and sliding
on its own

beckoning light
soft but sultry
velvet sweet
whisper wild
with no destination
just an
untamed promise
of always
being there

eucalyptus
speriment
melting into
the night

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Destination~

trying to
live on
solid ground
hope lingering
like honey
on my
uncharted path

all I want
is to be heard
sunrises blend
into nights
doing it right
chipping away

don't treat
people like strangers
as time travels on

throw me
a mile
someone
help me
I have
the night

on my side
something shimmering
and white
I long for
warm days

a loveless invitation
with no
with no destination
silhoette
of a perfect frame
but your smile
still remains

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

Time~

there is
always time
you just
have
to make
the most of it
I guess it
just takes
seeing things
in a new light
you just
have to
get through
this fiesta

my heart
is busting
go look
the stars
are shooting

so light
on your feet
you might want
to catch
your breath

too many
faces and places
you only
need one
good  one
 to see
the shape
of my heart

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Tea Rose~

I'm inclined
to spend my life
dreaming about
tea roses
both sweet
and soft
hangy dewy air
a better life
it's called
a beggining

I show
attitude
it's understood
you have to start
to get
on track

taking this
night by
surprise
I'll see you
when I
see you
we'lllaugh
catch up
on what's new

I hope
it's someday
soon
tarnished and ticking
the days wind on

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Silver~

crying
like fire
picking up
these pieces
broken wind chimes
its all right now
the past
is gone by

like
the leopard spots
in your eyes
what you feel
is what you are

if you're not
laughing,
you're not
living
the time
for dreaming
is over

silver moon
sparkling
free as wishes
milky twilight
hangs
a smile,
that spreads
like butter
it's bound
to rain
sooner or later
take me up
spin me around
so that tomorrow
won't fade

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Unknown~

it's never
to late
to throw it
all away
disguise a fate
start again

flowers withering
clouds drawing
a map

I'm following
the road
that leads
to you
to you

take what
you have gathered
from coincedence

sweet surender
imaginary grace
I don't want
to miss
the unknown

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Deverging~

deal the cards
don't give
me the run-a-round

I still
got this
dream
I can't
shake no
more  forshaking

this lillypad
of sunshine
fills up
every corner
of my black and white
perfect storm

no going
back
chaos everywhere
angles and edges

staring
at the bottoom
of the grass
anything better
then a life
standing still
feeling
a little faithless
trying to
look beyond
the surface

wondering
what act
of my life
I have
to act out
if you don't
believe it

close your eyes
after all,
you were never
mine to weave

sacrifice
freezes out
the bitterness
brings out
the bitterness
from the light

push
and pulls
drugged in
shadowed light
the moon
is out

we better
start
we can
choose

deadend
conversation
on a road
deverging
I missed
the exit sign
a sin
in hiding

Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Trees~

who tucks
you in
at night?
comfort
is silent
and secret

I asked you
if you saw
the trees
flashing
and then
going dark
again, quiet
you laughed,
and said I
noticed the
weirdest thing's

most of us
view the world
from the
outside
it seems
I see it
from the
inside out

coping from
the outcome
in hindsight
tangled up
with you
notging lasts
like untamed
thing's

the best thing's
about tonight
is we're not
fighting

the air
is smoke and vibrating
electric peach
melting through
the black lace
of trees
even the bugs
fly lazy

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Sunrise~

in the half light
in the shadows
it's both here
and somewhere else
the thing
about memory
you want to
erase
is thar
you can't tell
the difference
between
what really
happened
and how
it felt

quickened and exciting
darker dementions
with good intentions
sunrise always
gives you
a second chance

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Boundary~

the first love
is a forever love
it's not about
what you achieve
it's how
you achieve it

the waves of
the days
makes them
too long
hazy and swaying

I'm sorry
that I couldn't
be strong
in a
often divided world
and the deep recesses
of us

all of
these dreams
I have
not lived
I must
have
been sleeping

chin up
you'll get
your wings
someday
there's a light
I need to find
dangerous and wild

maybe it's
too far away
the landscape
of my heart
streatches out
like a sigh
beneath my skin

hold on
to what
makes you you
that way
you can never lose
 this is
my chance
to do
something real
that matters
when all
is crumbling
I'll hold
your hand

the boundary
between
is very thin
keep it level
an airplane
in the sky
maybe I'm
turning over
a n ew leaf

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Dreams~

hearts beating
in irregular time
I've been
thinking too much
help me


above the trees
I want to
get away
my dreams
are there
for the taking
just out
of reach

you always said
that because
our dreams
are so
hard to reach
makes reaching
for them
worthwhile

it's so
beautiful
the reflection
of leaves
on the water

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Crystalizes~

there are
moments
thing's that
are good
can happen
in the space
if a
single breath

when your
heart reaches
out the chaos
crystalizes
tries to find
a new form

I want
the chance
to fail
something different
you never once
saw all the
shadows fall
or stilll yourself
to feel the
night

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Changes~

like M.J. said,
it's time
to face
what lies
in the mirror

time to
make a
difference
something
shape your thoughts
make it right
the hero's journey
call to
adventure

tested in
the unknown
change is
a moving
thing, unsettling
it vibrates
with promise
scary
but needed

calue people
and moments
slow the
chaos down

life is
a apple
well go ahead
and take a bite
it all
funnels down
everything that shimmers
is surely
to fade

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Beautiful Nightmares~

it was
a clouded moon
where it shone
out in opal waves

it was the hour
of the woolf moon
the moon
right before
dawn
nightmares
are said
to be
at their strongest
hour of reckoning

treading
on the edge
of dreams
haunting
cold
silver
soft hangs
in the
unsuspecting air
maybe nature
is not meant
to be tamed

you can't
really
be sure
when the
storm
is over

I hope
that trying
ban be
enough
sweer dreams
can always
turn into
beautiful nightmares

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Storms~

after the
storms
all this
frozzen
green ground
makes me
aimble and wonder
in my mind

all my life
I've hidden
my true self away
I grew
 a second skin
so you can't
see inside

the storms
were angry
constant
they ripped
up trees
exposed
naked
on a circle
of green grass

I always
thought
it was the best time
to see everything
after a good storm

the sky
first dark gray
then angry cracked
into a
mosaic of pieces

peach
dark then light
running down
the clouds
like watercolors
turns into
streaks
of mango light against
just touching
the green black
trees

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Peaceful Illusions~

"but let the world think otherwise, we wear the mask"-Maya Angelou

it's a jungle
out there
chaos confuses
the mind
muddles
thoughts

even though
I smile
it's hatd
to truly
let anyone in

I just end up
stumbling around
grasping
at straws
and ghosts
trying to find
solid ground
again

to look
past all these
beautiful lies
I wear
a mask

velvet and unwavering
wind chimes
drowsey in the wind
like glass pieces
falling against
each other
moaning
like something forgotten
peaceful illusion
never changes
into something
real

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Beautiful Net~

the light
started to
turn red
brown
to ruby
to apple

the shadows
started t6o
turn long
at the moment
I looked out

on the edge
of trust
not knowing
not knowing what
is real anymore

trying not
to lose balance

raspberries
in chocolate milk
floating liquid
sparkles
velvet tart

constant
and transparent
if life
is an apple
let me
take a bite

the biggest
mistake I made
was believing
that if I cast a beautiful net
all I'd catch
are beautiful thing's

my path
forked, frayed
maybe living
is just
bringing light
to what you need to
in the day

seeing it
for the first time
the air
is cold smoke
and echos

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Middle~

Sometimes I

Don’t know

What I stand

For anymore

I love

The sound

Of thunder rolling

We can worry again

In the morning

When I

see stars

that’s all

they are

when it rains

look for

the rainbow

when it’s dark

look for the stars

you’re always the bad guy

in somebody else’s story

I can’t help

It if I say a lot

With a little

You always say

You’ll run out of chances

If you stop taking them

Everyday might

Not be good

But at least

There’s something

Good in everyday

You’re crazy

With soft eyes

And only brave

In moonlight

We’re going

Exploring

No one

Sometimes you

Have to pull back

let people

Come to you

No one really

Likes patience

Middles are hardest

Because you

Can get lost

But middles can also

Be a beginning

Follow the pebbles

I left you

At midnight

To guide

Your way

Even though

The ground

Feels like

It’s crumbling

Beneath me

the nicest

sound

I ever

left you

was an echo

I used my head

When it was

Outside my

heart

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~