my eyes fall softly on the droplet of water
rolling down your cheek
like a wave meeting the sky
and your face is a thousand shores
merging together
like hands through time
#life
Roots
UncategorizedI walk
casting shadows
in sun-kissed halls
hoping no-one stops to notice
the way my feet bleed
into the darkness
like trees
creeping through cement
and bricks
caressing pipes
like loving hands
leading me
home
One Second Here
Uncategorizedone second here
then gone in a flash
as strangers take one more breath than you will ever get to make
~
the television plug is pulled
right in the middle of some throwaway line
the light dimming
to the deepest black
~
it is a shade only seen once
at the end of walking
and talking
and breathless smiles
empty-full kisses
times of gratitude
and times of self pity
~
complicated to the final second
still trying to make meaning
where meaning can never be made
~
you walk on days like air walks on water
one second here
then gone in a flash
The Tragedy of Teachers
UncategorizedYou are a figure with no story behind her
~
A statue with a movable jaw
spilling years of memories
made by those long gone
~
Thoughts that carry on
in your tired breath
~
You wear the mask daily
even though you know
they’ll learn more from your tears
than a text book could ever teach
~
River of Wind
UncategorizedI walk down the river of wind
expecting to drown
and yet
I find myself being carried by the day
like an angel made from clouds
holding my hand
guiding me down the stream
I stop and rest
at the bed of the river
smelling flowers and weeds
beautiful and indistinguishable
and so I start to arrange them
into new forms
new combinations for the world to see
a new flavour
Uncategorizedmy day is what the universe makes
and if stars should die
and fall from the sky
then I will find stardust
to make tea
Knock First
#creative writing, #poetry, UncategorizedI hope you’ve learned
your lesson in this
ask me first
before your lips
make mine their home
I never gave you the keys…
Searching in the dark
#creative writing, #poetry, UncategorizedI am afraid
of liking you too much
I walk away
convincing myself
I am better off waiting
for a better one
found on some future day
that will eventually exist in some past regret…
Best Before
UncategorizedI’m sorry
if you did not know
how to be
or what to say
when you held me close
and thought it was ok
You didn’t ask
and sensed the situation wrong
believing it was right
to hold me so tight
~
See I’ve been held before my friend
by those who thought taking
was a gift solely for me
unwrapped and unwritten
all within a minute
How could you know
this slate was not clean?
Final Thoughts
UncategorizedWhen I think about the day my eyes close
and my last breath has made it’s way out
into the world
never to return again
I know that I’ll care nothing for all these clothes
and handbags
and lipstick
that never stood a chance to survive
in this mind
that calls out for a true life…
